DORS openers : newsletter of the Department of Rehabilitation Services, State of Illinois.

Mode of access: Internet.

Protecting persons with disabilities through changes in the Department of Rehabilitation Services' Bureau of Disability Adjudication Services : a report submitted to the members of the 83rd General Assembly /

"November 1, 1984."

1980 update survey of state residential facilities : including Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities institutions, Department of Corrections (Adult & Juvenile) correctional centers, Department of Rehabilitation Services, Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Home /

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[Reorganization and consolidation of the Illinois Dept. of Insurance, Illinois Office of Banks and Real Estate, Illinois Dept. of Professional Regulation, and the Illinois Dept. of Financial Institutions into the Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation]

As part of the Governor's effort to streamline State government through improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of operations, Executive Order 2004-06 ("EO6") provided for the reorganization (consolidation) of the Department of Insurance, Office of Banks and Real Estate, Department of Professional Regulation and Department of Financial Institutions. Through EO6 the four predecessor Agencies were abolished and a single new agency, The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (hereafter referred to as "IDFPR") was created. The purpose of the consolidation of the four regulatory agencies was to allow for certain economies of scale to be realized primarily within the executive management and administrative functions. Additionally, the consolidation would increases the effectiveness of operations through the integration of certain duplicative functions within the four predecessor agencies without the denegration of the frontline functions. Beginning on or about July 1, 2004, the IDFPR began consolidation activities focusing primarily on the administrative functions of Executive Management, Fiscal and Accounting, General Counsel, Human Resources, Information Technology and Other Administrative Services. The underlying premise of the reorganization was that all improvements could be accomplished without the denegration of the frontline functions of the predecessor agencies. Accordingly, all powers, duties, rights, responsibilities and functions of the predecessor agencies migrated to IDFPR and the reorganization activities commenced July 1, 2004.

ORS, the Office of Research Services : supporting national health and research /

Mode of access: Internet.

Battelle research reports available from the Office of Technical Services, April 30, 1958,

Mode of access: Internet.

Directory of state services for people with disabilities.

Title from cover.

Directory of state services for handicapped people.

Mandated by PA 81-178.

Handbook on : rights, responsibilities, procedures for Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education-Roosevelt Illinois School for the Deaf, Illinois School for the Visually Impaired.

"Feb. 7, 1995."

The origins and development of the Office of Medical Services, Department of State /

Mode of access: Internet.

An enhanced functional ability questionnaire (faVIQ) to measure the impact of rehabilitation services on the visually impaired

AIM To develop a short, enhanced functional ability Quality of Vision (faVIQ) instrument based on previous questionnaires employing comprehensive modern statistical techniques to ensure the use of an appropriate response scale, items and scoring of the visual related difficulties experienced by patients with visual impairment. METHODS Items in current quality-of-life questionnaires for the visually impaired were refined by a multi-professional group and visually impaired focus groups. The resulting 76 items were completed by 293 visually impaired patients with stable vision on two occasions separated by a month. The faVIQ scores of 75 patients with no ocular pathology were compared to 75 age and gender matched patients with visual im pairm ent. RESULTS Rasch analysis reduced the faVIQ items to 27. Correlation to standard visual metrics was moderate (r=0.32-0.46) and to the NEI-VFQ was 0.48. The faVIQ was able to clearly discriminate between age and gender matched populations with no ocular pathology and visual impairment with an index of 0.983 and 95% sensitivity and 95% specificity using a cut off of 29. CONCLUSION The faVIQ allows sensitive assessm ent of quality-of-life in the visually im paired and should support studies which evaluate the effectiveness of low vision rehabilitation services. © Copyright International Journal of Ophthalmology Press.

Annual report /

Title from cover.

Customer guidance for managing your personal assistant.

"DHS 4365 (R-5-00) ORS - PA handbook."

A successful reorganization of human services in Illinois : a report to the Illinois Legislative Taskforce on Human Service Consolidation /

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