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Featuring the latest newsletters, articles
and other information on independent living,
disability and managed care, personal
attendant services and the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
New on the ILRU Web site:
Upcoming Webinars:
NCDDR Webinar: September 29, 2010: The KT4TT Knowledge Base: Steps and Supporting Evidence to Improve Your Process!
NCDDR Webinar: November 10, 2010: KT4TT's Intellectual Property Modules
Archived Web Casts:
2010
Introducing the RRTC on Spinal Cord Injury: Research Aimed at Improving Your Health. Part II: Maintenance of Skin Health and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers presented by Suzanne Groah, MD, MSPH, Project Director, and Manon Schladen, MSE, EdS, Co-Director of Training, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Secondary Conditions in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), on July 28, 2010
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about
the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA ) but
Were Afraid to Ask presented by Joe Bontke, U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, with an introduction by Angela English,
Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities, on July 20, 2010.
An
Overview of Title III: Requirements for Small Businesses presented
by Paula Rubin, Supervisory Attorney with the U.S. Dept of Justice,
Disability Rights Section, on July 15, 2010
Introducing the RRTC on Spinal Cord Injury: Research Aimed at Improving Your Health. Part I: Prevention of Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease presented by Suzanne Groah, MD, MSPH, Project Director, and Manon Maitland Schladen (Lauderdale), MSE, EdS, Co-Director of Training, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Secondary Conditions in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), on July 14, 2010
Get to the Core of It, Part V: Systems Advocacy presented by Chris Hilderbrant, Center for Disability Rights (CDR), Rochester, New York, on June 16, 2010
Get to the Core of It, Part IV: Individual Advocacy presented by Greg Jones, Director of Advocacy, and Brad Brooks, individual advocate, Southeast Kansas Independent Living(SKIL) on June 9, 2010
Begin with Knowledge Translation; Have the End--Technology Transfer--in Mind! presented by James A. Leahy, BS, Co-Principal Investigator, Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer, University at Buffalo, on June 3, 2010
Get to the Core of It, Part III: IL Skills Training presented by Will Osuna, Program Director, Berkeley CIL, & Tim Sheehan, Executive Director, CIL Western Wisconsin, on May 27, 2010
Disability Research Design Issues and Strategies: A Conversation with Researchers presented by Thomas D. Cook, PhD, Jeffrey C. Valentine, PhD, and James Bellini, PhD, CRC, on May 26, 2010
Get to the Core of It, Part II: Peer Support presented by Amina Donna Kruck, Director of Advocacy Programs, and April Reed, Volunteer Coordinator, Arizona Bridge to Independent Living (ABIL), Phoenix, Arizona, on May 19, 2010
An Update on Project Civic Access presented by presented by Naomi Milton and Ame Eduardo, U.S. Department of
Justice on May 6, 2010
Developing & Evaluating an Outcomes-Focused SPIL, Part 2: Evaluation presented by: Mike Hendricks, Ph.D. on April 28, 2010
Developing & Evaluating an Outcomes-Focused SPIL, Part 1: Goals & Objectives presented by: Mike Hendricks, Ph.D. on April 21, 2010
Rating the Strength of Evidence and Recommendations for Disability and Rehabilitation Research presented by Dr. Jan Brozek on April 14, 2010
Assessing and Changing employers' Attitudes Toward Hiring and Retention of Employees with Disabilities presented by Fong Chan, Ph.D., at the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin – Madison, on April 8, 2010
Get to the Core of It, Part III: Information & Referral presented by Roger Howard, Executive Director of the Living Independence Network Corporation (LINC), Darrel Christenson, Director of Community Integration, Arizona Bridge to Independent Living (ABIL) and Andrew Moody, Information and Referral Program Coordinator, Arizona Bridge to Independent Living (ABIL), on March 24, 2010
Orientation to the ILRU SILC-NET How-To Guide for Developing an Outcomes-Focused SPIL presented by Richard Petty, Darrell Jones and Carol Eubanks on March 11, 2010
Fair Housing and Reasonable Accommodations Updates presented by Barbara Chandler, Fair Housing Manager for the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership on March 10, 2010
Recruiting, Orienting and Supporting New Council Members presented by Camille Pansa, Executive Director, Rhode Island SILC, and Shelly Emery, Operations Coordinator, Oregon SILC on March 8, 2010
Disparities in Obesity and Disability (Part 2): Developing Research Partnerships and Collaborations presented by Margaret Campbell, PhD, Christine C. Ferguson, JD, James Rimmer, PhD and Rochelle L. Rollins, PhD, MPH on March 4, 2010
The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in Education presented by Cheryl A. Theis (MA), Director of the Foster Youth with Disabilities in Transition (FYDT) and Clearinghouse and Education Advocate for the Parent Training Information Center Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) on March 3, 2010
An Introduction to Jamaican Culture for Rehabilitation Services Providers presented by Doreen M. Miller, RhD, CRC, and Sheila Campbell-Forrester, MD on February 17, 2010
Rehabilitation and Recovery of African-Americans Experiencing Severe Mental Illness presented Presented by William Lawson, MD, PhD and Rob Whitley, PhD on February 10, 2010
Leading Statewide Strategic Planning presented by Ann McDaniel, Executive Director, West Virginia Statewide Independent Living Council and Brad Williams, Executive Director, New York State Independent Living Council on February 4, 2010
Using Social Media Part 2: Applying Social Media at my Center presented by Carol Voss and Michele Martin on January 20, 2010
Using
Social Media: Part 1 - Introduction to Social Media presented
by Michele Martin and Carol Voss on January 13, 2010
Implications of the Findings from a Study of Disability Employment Discrimination Charges filed with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or with a Fair Employment Practice Agency presented by Rodney Klein, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Susanne Bruyère, and Sarah von Schrader, Cornell University, on January 7, 2010
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