Tamar Heller, PhD
Professor and Head, Disability and Human Development Director, Institute on Disability and Human Development
Director, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities College of Applied Health Sciences
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Dr. Heller is professor and head of the UIC Department of Disability and Human Development and directs its University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities for the State of Illinois. She also directs the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developmental Disabilities and Health, the Institute’s Family Clinics, and the TAP autism training program. She has active projects on family support and health promotion interventions for individuals with disabilities.
Dr. Heller has written over 200 publications and presented numerous papers at major conferences on family support interventions and policies, self-determination, health promotion, and aging of people with disabilities. She has written or co-edited five books and has edited special issues of Technology and Disability, American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, and Family Relations. She is the past president of the board of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. In 2005 she was Senator Obama’s delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. She is co-founder of the national Sibling Leadership Network and a member of its executive board.