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UF team to help innovate retrofits for homes for people with disabilities

Imagine using your living room as a dining room or your kitchen as a bedroom – complete with handicap-accessible equipment. University of Florida researchers will help develop those conversions, as they work on a three-year, $531,000, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to develop and test innovations…

Fostering young service dogs a labor of puppy love for UF students

Every morning, Morgan Montaudo — a University of Florida health science senior on the pre-occupational therapy track — puts on her backpack, heads toward the door and then turns to her wagging golden retriever to ask, “Do you want to be a service dog today?” Montaudo, 23, and her…

Investigating the daily impact of disability in children

Roxanna Bendixen, Ph.D. Whether it’s recess, extracurricular activities, sleepovers or other forms of social participation, children with disabilities are often on the outside looking in. “It can be hard for many children to make a friend and keep a friend; it’s even harder for children with disabilities,” said Roxanna…