About Us
The prism (Paediatric Rehabilitation Intelligent Systems Multidisciplinary) lab was founded in 2004 through the generous support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Innovation Trust, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Bloorview Research Institute and various philantrophic donations. The prism lab is a multidisciplinary group of individuals concerned about maximizing possibilities for children and youth with disabilities and special needs, along with their families, through engineering excellence.
The prism lab is located within Bloorview Kids Rehab, an academic health sciences centre, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and the largest paediatric rehabilitation hospital in Canada. We are affiliated with the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, all at the University of Toronto.
The prism lab serves as a unique, clinically oriented training ground for an interprofessional mix of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in intelligent system theory, hardware, software, materials and analytical methods within a paediatric rehabilitation context. We work very closely alongside numerous health and allied health professionals, including physicians, dentists, occupational therapist, physical therapists, social workers, child life specialists, speech language pathologists and nursing, throughout all stages of research, from problem formulation to grant application, from data collection to journal publication.
