New Research
Grants Awarded for Advancing Employment for People with Disabilities
Below are highlights of some of the various projects set to
begin:
- Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment of People with
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities -- Awarded to the Virginia Commonwealth University
($875,000 a year, for a period of five years) for establishing this
RRTC in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Vanderbilt University, and Kent State University. The cornerstone of
this RRTC will be a series of six studies that examine the critical
variables that have the potential to improve competitive integrated
employment (CIE) outcomes for individuals with intellectual and
developmental disabilities (I/DD), including how: 1) a major
corporation implements a demand side approach to hiring workers with
I/DD; 2) young adults from minorities with I/DD acquire technology
skills to enable them to access careers in IT fields; 3) college
students with Autism Spectrum Disorder can use cognitive technology to
impact their academic and employment outcomes; 4) parent intervention impacts
parent expectations and their sons and daughters CIE outcomes; and 5)
training employment specialists using a competency based curriculum
can improve CIE outcomes.
- Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment of Transition-Age Youth
with Disabilities --
Awarded to the Virginia Commonwealth University ($875,000 a year, for
a period of five years) for establishing this RRTC in partnership
with the Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
Kent State University. The RRTC will conduct six studies to
generate evidence-based interventions to assist youth to enter
competitive integrated employment: 1) a systematic review of the
literature to assess and organize the relevant research to inform
their work; 2) a pilot study of an intervention on effective knowledge
translation methods for counselors working with students with
significant disabilities ages 14-16; 3) a randomized control trial to
study the effects of paid internships for at-risk youth with
disabilities prior to graduation; 4) a randomized control trial to
examine the effects of technology for college students with traumatic
brain injury and develop an intervention on the effects of paid work
in high school of youth with severe disabilities; 5) a randomized control
trial on the effects of paid work in high school for youth with severe
disabilities; and 6) an intervention on the effects of an online
course and subsequent technical assistance for postsecondary staff
providing employment supports for college students with I/DD.
- Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Improving Employment Outcomes
for People with Psychiatric Disabilities -- The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at
Boston University ($875,000 a year, for a period of five years) with a
network of collaborators will conduct a coordinated program of
research and knowledge translation projects and activities that build
on the existing evidence-based supported employment (IPS) and improve
employment outcomes for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.
Research will include a qualitative study of the barriers and
facilitators to access IPS, a categorization of provider-generated
adaptations of IPS, examination of performance-based incentives for
IPS specialists and their effects, testing an intervention of
self-management strategies for workplace success, developing and
testing an innovative metacognitive intervention to improve work
outcomes, and testing an intervention that integrates career guidance
and supported education to improve employment outcomes.
Within ACL, NIDILRR works to generate new knowledge and
promote its effective use to improve the abilities of individuals with
disabilities to perform activities of their choice in the community; and to
expand society's capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations
for people with disabilities. NIDILRR conducts its work through grants that
support research and development.
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