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Welcome to the Cirris

The Cirris has the mission to develop and mobilize the knowledge that enables social participation of people with disabilities. Driven by a profound culture of interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration, this mission is kept up to date through the training of students from various disciplines as well as through the research that is done in close collaboration with disabled people and community partners, various levels of government, healthcare and social services, and the industry.

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Research Topics

Functions

Cognitive and behavioral • Motor, sensory and perception • Speech-related

Environment

Social • Technological • Physical

News

An investment of $960,000 for the implementation of a sustainable health innovation evaluation network

12 July 2022

The CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale will be able to count on an exceptional budget of nearly one million dollars to develop the new Réseau d’évaluation de l’innovation en santé durable (REISD),

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 T. David Sisk Award for Research Excellence

28 June 2022

Professor Jean-Sébastien Roy’s scientific team, composed of Fábio Carlos Lucas de Oliveira, Benoit Pairot de Fontenay, Laurent Julien Bouyer and François Desmeules,

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Luc J. Hébert will lead the Scientific Council of the The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans

15 June 2022

The Cirris team would like to congratulate Professor Luc J. Hébert on his appointment as Director of Research Partnerships and Chair of the Scientific Council for the The Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans (CPCoE).

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Recent publications

Feasibility and clinical applicability of a novel power wheelchair training approach

27 July 2022 - Krista Best

Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of a Canadian French adaptation of the pain self-efficacy questionnaire (PSEQ)

22 July 2022 - Jean-Sébastien Roy

Use of a dynamic arm support to drive a power wheelchair: a case report

22 July 2022 - Alexandre Campeau-Lecours

Inter-Agency Collaboration in the Transition from School to Adulthood of Students with Disabilities: A Narrative Review of the Literature

4 July 2022 - Chantal Desmarais

Experiences of Social Participation for Canadian Wheelchair Users with Spinal Cord Injury during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2 July 2022 - Krista Best

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The Cirris has more than 70 researchers from three Quebec universities and eight different faculties

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