February is National Recreational Therapy Month 🏀🏌️ Our inpatient rehabilitation hospitals offer recreational therapy sessions that complement an extensive range of rehabilitation programs and services. Recreational therapy advances the healing process through fun and adaptive activities. This form of therapy helps to restore a person’s function and reduces activity limitations caused by an illness or disabling condition. | California Rehabilitation Institute

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As 2025 comes to a close, we're continuing to revisit five stories and five social posts that represent some of the movements, accomplishments, and advocacy from this year. DRC shared a response to a dangerous criticism of ASL interpretation which occurred earlier this year during the L.A. fires, calling emergency ASL interpreting a "distraction". DRC stands firmly with equitable information access. Accessibility saves lives and we will always promote the continued need to prioritize inclusion a

We are so proud of DRC's own Senior Advocate Leslie Napper who testified before the Assembly Public Safety this morning in opposition to SB 27 (Umberg). Leslie is a powerful mental health advocate who leads with her own lived experience and here she is candid about her feelings of being somewhat dismissed by the committee members, truly delinquent on their part given the extreme stakes of this troubling CARE Court expansion. You can learn more about Leslie through her employee spotlight at the l

Disability rights group challenges California law that forces the mentally ill into court-ordered treatment