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Events

Wearable Technology to Monitor Movement and Optimize Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

Provincial Stroke Rounds Topic: Wearable Technology to Monitor Movement and Optimize Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Presenter:  Dr Marika Demers, erg., PhD, Professeure adjointe, École de Réadaptation, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal Date:  Wednesday December 3 , 2025 Time: 0800-0900 hrs. EST Host Site: Champlain Regional Stroke Network Virtual Event: **No pre-registration required just click

Return to Vocations After Stroke Webinar

Date: January 16, 2026 Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM Target Audience: This webinar is ideal for rehabilitation professionals seeking strategies and tools to support return to work planning Please join us for an engaging and practical webinar focused on supporting persons with stroke in their journey back to meaningful work. This session will cover: Highlights from

Stronger Together After Stroke: Impacts of Strength Training and Lived Experience (Provincial Stroke Rounds)

Topic:  Stronger Together After Stroke: Impacts of Strength Training and Lived Experience Presenters:  Dr. Ada Tang and Dr. Kenny Noguchi Date:  Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Time: 1200-1300 hrs. EST (Note this new time for this month only) Host Site: Central South Regional Stroke Network Virtual Event: **** no pre-registration required****   Click HERE to join on

Challenges in managing hemodynamic stroke: a multidisciplinary approach to chronic steno-occlusive arterial disease

Provincial Stroke Rounds Topic: Challenges in managing hemodynamic stroke: a multidisciplinary approach to chronic steno-occlusive arterial disease Speaker: Joanna Schaafsma, MD PhD, Vascular neurologist, University Health Network/University of Toronto Virtual Event: no pre-registration required, just click on the link at the designated time of the event: https://zoom.us/j/93993474239?pwd=XerEkAxvCMNh9LjfIVmqjcWO6a2Frt.1

Sexuality Post-Stroke (2-part series)

LIMITED # SPACES  Email Dorothy Burridge to secure your space burridged@rvh.on.ca Dates/Times: November 28th & December 5th from 12:00 – 3:30 p.m. Learning Objectives: Be informed about the main potential impacts of stroke on sexuality Be informed about several methods of screening needs, including the Sexuality Interview Guide Know how to use and interpret the

Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA™)

Join us for a 3.5-hr workshop to learn communication techniques to support conversation when working with someone with aphasia. The goal is to help people who “know more than they can say” express their opinions and feelings in a way that makes them feel valued and heard. (Aphasia Institute) Date: October 4th, 2025 Time: 09:00

Managing the “Pusher”: NDT Workshop in the Management of Adults with Stroke & Brain Injury

WORKSHOP IS FULL, please email us at cesn@rvh.on.ca if you would like to be added to the waitlist. This one-day workshop provides an opportunity to gain insight into managing the individual with contraversive pushing tendencies (“pusher syndrome”). Patients that “push” present with unique impairments but have the potential to make gains like other non-pushing patients.

Building Awareness: Helping Kids Understand Stroke and Aphasia – Provincial Stroke Rounds

Provincial Stroke Rounds Topic: Building Awareness: Helping Kids Understand Stroke and Aphasia Presenters:  Lisa Samson M.H.Sc. SLP (C) Reg. CASLPO and Alessandra D. Peretti, BSW, RSW, INHC Date:  Wednesday June 4th , 2025 Time: 0830-0930 hrs. EST (Note: new 8:30 am start time; trial from Feb – June 2025) Host Site: Southwestern Ontario Stroke Network

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