Dr. Chau and his PRISM lab have focused on access innovations in recent years. Access innovations include the discovery, design, and evaluation of novel pathways by which children and youth can communicate or interact with their environment in the absence of functional speech and gestures.
PhD Candidate
Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
Advisor: Dr. Tom Chau
Education
Jenny received her BSc in Cognitive Science and Computer Science at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She is working towards a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Earlier this month NPR interviewed amputee and palliative-care doctor BJ Miller about his new book 'A Beginner's Guide to the End.' We are republishing BLOOM's 2012 interview with BJ, about acquiring his disabilities as a young man.
Janette McDougall is a Bloorview Research Institute Adjunct Scientist and a Researcher based at Thames Valley Children’s Treatment Centre in London, ON.
A six-week inpatient program at Holland Bloorview optimizes the muscle strength children with spinal muscular atrophy are gaining through two breakthrough drugs.