News - Updates from the MICL Team

Our quarterly Updates include news about grants, publications, presentations and more from the MICL team.

Here are a few highlights from recent issues:

Charles Drum, Glen White, Willi Horner-Johnson and Genia Taitano published "The Oregon Death with Dignity Act: Results of a literature review and naturalistic inquiry" in Disability and Health Journal (Jan. 2010, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 3-15).
Amanda Reichard has had a paper accepted for presentation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Diabetes Translation Conference in April. Her subject is “Diabetes among Adults with Cognitive Limitations Compared to Individuals with No Disabilities in the U.S.”

Charles Drum received the National Distinguished Disability Research Award from the Southwest Conference on Disability, where he was also the keynote speaker. This award recognizes an individual from the United States who has compiled a distinguished record of disability-related research in the social or physical sciences that has contributed to and advanced our overall knowledge of disability.
An article by Glen White appears in the November issue of New Mobility magazine. The article 's about his trip to Peru in January ’09 with an American IL Dream Team is titled “Independent Living: From Kansas to Peru.”
MICL partners at the Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities at the University of Montana Rural Institute have produced these new fact sheets, with assistance from Advisory Panel members:

-Working Well with a Disability
-Developing Methods and Measures to Assess Progress in Achieving Access Goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Case Study of Small Towns in Montana.

News - Press Releases

Press Room - articles about RTC/MICL
(May 2007). NCIL seeks input from CIL staff on best practices for community participation. Published on National Council on Independent Living website.