Welcome to the Chicago Healthy Adolescents
Transition Study (C.H.A.T.S.) website! Dr. Grayson
Holmbeck, a clinical psychologist and professor
at Loyola University Chicago, is the principal
investigator of this study. For the past ten years,
Dr. Holmbeck and his research team have been visiting
families who have children with spina bifida,
a congenital birth defect that affects neurological,
urological, orthopedic, and educational functioning.
The whole research project depends upon the dedicated
participation of each and every family in this
study. This website was developed in part to express
our gratitude to these families, and in part to
share useful information that has been generated
from this decade of research! Though this study
is no longer open to new participants, this website
is open to everyone. Specifically, this website
contains information about the research study,
spina bifida, adolescence, weblinks, and much
more. We hope that it will be an interesting and
useful resource in answering any questions that
you may have about the research study, or about
spina bifida in general.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please
let us know!
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