News & Information
Call for Nominations
The NARRTC Nomination Committee is soliciting nominations for the following positions: Vice President (and Conference Chair) and Members at Large (2). Nominations are due March 23, 2012. More...
New Grantees funded by NIDRR FY 2011
NIDRR has funded the following projects for the cycle starting 10/1/2011:
NARRTC Member Teleconferences
NARRTC's second all-member teleconference was held on January 13, 2012
- Audio file of Teleconference on 1/13/12 (1 hr. mp3 file)
- Transcript of Teleconference on 1/13/12 (78kb .doc file)
NARRTC's first all-member teleconference was held on December 15, 2010
- Audio file of Teleconference on 12/15/10 (1 hr. mp3 file)
- Transcript of Teleconference on 12/15/10 (96kb .doc file)
NARRTC News
Our quarterly newsletter aims to provide NARRTC members with some relevant news from NIDRR & NARRTC, information about upcoming events that might be of general interest to the membership, and a feature called "Members Spotlight."
- Issue 14: March 2012
- Issue 13: December 2011
- Issue 12: June 2011
- Issue 11: January 2011
- Issue 10: October 2010
- Issue 9: May 2010
- Issue 8: February 2010
- Issue 7: December 2009
- Issue 6: July 2009
- Issue 5: April 2009
- Issue 4: February 2009
- Issue 3: October 2008
- Issue 2: August 2008
- Issue 1: May 2008
Working on your behalf
NARRTC works with Congress and Federal agencies on various issues of interest to NARRTC membership. We have also joined the Disability Rehabilitation Research Coalition to increase our educational efforts. The following is the testimony presented to the Interagency Council on Disability Research (ICDR) on August 13, 2008.
The first testimony was given as part of the DRRC: DRRC ICDR Testimony (FINAL)
The second testimony was written specifically on behalf of NARRTC alone: NARRTC ICDR Testimony
As a member of the DRR Coalition, NARRTC sent the following: Comments on NIDRR's Proposed Long Range Plan
As part of the Coalition, NIDRR requested specific items in the Appropriations Bill for Fiscal year 2010: Letter to Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services and Education