Welcome to Illinois Rehabilitation Association

The purpose of the Illinois Rehabilitation Association is to advance habilitation, rehabilitation, and maintenance for all people with disabilities by:

• Increasing public understanding of the social and economic gains to individuals and communities through providing opportunities for all people with disabilities to become self-sufficient, self-supported and contributing members of society.
• Providing opportunities for conferences and forums for the discussion of all the problems related to the total rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
• Encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to problems of rehabilitation through maximum use of knowledge and skills of all professions.
• Fostering research and study to advance knowledge and skills necessary to improve rehabilitation services to people with disabilities.
• Stimulating professional training opportunities for all personnel engaged in rehabilitation and encouraging the entry of competent and humanitarian individuals to the rehabilitation professions.
• Engaging in social action, with professional decorum, aimed at advancing the rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
• Facilitating the process of enabling people with disabilities to establish, maintain, and/or return to productive roles in society.