Research and Training Center on Independent Living
This conference is held in conjunction with APRIL's annual conference - so you can attend two conferences with one trip.
The Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL) will hold its conference on October 30, 31 and November 1, 2010. The pre-conference will take place on October 29.
Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Translation
The two-day conference is designed to focus on science the first day and practical application the second day for an expanded audience that will include APRIL pre-conference attendees.
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Community Participation
by People with Disabilities:
How Do We Measure Up?
A State of the Science Conference
October 28-29, 2010
Kansas City, MO
Sheraton Overland Park (Kansas) Hotel
This state-of-the-science conference is designed for researchers, policy makers, consumers,
and advocates of independent living.
Keynote speaker: Al Condeluci, PhD
CEO, United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh
Full community participation by people with disabilities is a core element of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research’s (NIDRR) long range plan. The recent publication of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has also drawn attention to the concept of participation as a gold standard for outcome measurement in independent living and rehabilitation.
For the past four years, the Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living (RTC/MICL) has been developing measures and interventions to enhance full community participation by people with disabilities. In this State of the Science conference, RTC/MICL researchers and others engaged in similar projects will gather to discuss results, obstacles and the next steps.
“Community Participation by People with Disabilities: How Do We Measure Up?” is designed to bring together researchers, policy makers, service providers and consumers to explore the latest findings in the areas of independent living, rehabilitation, health care, measurement process and outcomes, participation and access for people with disabilities (physical accessibility, access to services), advocacy, administration, and related topics.
This conference is sponsored by RTC/MICL, a five-year NIDRR-sponsored project. The conference will precede the annual conference of Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL), scheduled for Oct. 30-Nov. 1, so participants can attend two conferences with one trip.
Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Translation
The two-day conference is designed to focus on science the first day and practical application the second day for an expanded audience that will include APRIL pre-conference attendees.
Thursday, Oct. 28 (Day 1) will focus on scientific findings and intervention research related to the overall theme of measuring community participation by people with disabilities |
Friday, Oct. 29 (Day 2) will focus on knowledge translation, emphasizing the practical applications of research to enhance community participation by people with disabilities. |
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o Primary audience: Researchers and policy makers. |
o Audience: Researchers, consumers, service providers, policy makers. |
o Format: Oral presentations |
o Format: Concurrent oral presentations; poster session. |
Who We Are
The RTC/MICL is a consortium based at the University of Kansas with partners at Washington University in St. Louis, the Oregon Health and Science University, and the University of Montana. National consumer organizations such as the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) and the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL) are also part of our consortium. Our advisory panel and consumer empowerment teams of experts include people with disabilities. RTC/MICL is funded by NIDRR grant H133B060018.
