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Lieke van Heumen

Clinical Associate Professor

Disability and Human Development

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312.413.5557

About

Lieke van Heumen is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Disability and Human Development. She is a 2015 graduate of the Department’s PhD program in Disability Studies. She received both her undergraduate and master degrees in psychology with a specialization in gerontology from the Radboud University in the Netherlands. Lieke worked as a psychologist in five group homes for people with intellectual disabilities in the Netherlands.

Selected Grants

Special Olympics International, Special Olympics Research and Evaluation Translation and Dissemination Project Years 1, 2 and 3, Principal Investigator

Retirement Research Foundation, Building Community Capacity for Person-Centered Planning for People Aging with ID, Principal Investigator

Individual Advocacy Group and Envision Unlimited through Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities, Short Term Stabilization Homes Evaluation, Co-Principal Investigator

Selected Publications

Service to Community

Dr. van Heumen is the secretary of the Inclusive Research Special Interest Research Group of IASSIDD, the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Notable Honors

2023, Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

2021-2022, Teaching Recognition Program Award, UIC

2017, Excalibur Award for Teaching Excellence, AHS Student Council, UIC

2016, Student and Early Career Professionals Special Interest Group Scholarship and Gerontology Division Student Scholarship, Amerian Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Education

PhD, Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015
MS, Psychology, Radboud University, the Netherlands, 2008
BS, Psychology, Radboud University, the Netherlands, 2006

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