NARRTC 2016 Conference Agenda

Symposium 1 (Salon A) : Best Paper Award Nominees:
a. Yue Cao, Elizabeth A. Walker, and James S. Krause.

Environmental barriers and subjective health among people with chronic spinal cord injury: A cohort study.

b. Joy Hammel, Susan Magasi, Allen Heinemann, David B. Gray, Susan Stark, Pamela Kisala, Noelle E. Carlozzi, David Tulsky, and Elizabeth A. Hahn.

Environmental Barriers and Supports to Everyday Participation: A Qualitative Insider Perspective From People With Disabilities.

c. Chloe S. Slocum, Richard Goldstein, Margaret A. DiVita, Jacqueline Mix, Paulette Niewczyk, Paul Gerrard, Robert Sheridan, Karen J. Kowalske, Ross Zafonte, Colleen M. Ryan, Jeffrey C. Schneider.

Assessing the ability of comorbidity indexes to capture comorbid disease in the inpatient rehabilitation burn injury population.

c. Sarah Parker Harris, Robert Gould:
ADA Systematic Review: Understanding the ADA research on healthcare access

d. Jill Bezyak:
A Community of Practice for Human Resource Professionals: Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Symposium 2 (Salon A): Katie Allen, DeBrittany Mitchell:
ExploreVR: Interpreting Data – Informing Research, Policy, and Practice

Research papers (Salon B):
a) Debra Guthmann:
Development of an Online Suite of VR, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Assessments to Enhance Employment of Individuals who are Deaf

b) Sally Rogers, Uma Millner:
Functional assessment of psychiatric disability and its relation to vocational capacity

c) LaWanda Cook, Sarah von Schrader, David Filiberto:
Stories of Disability Bullying and Harassment: “I have been treated as if my very presence at work was a detriment to the organization.”

d) Frances Harris:
Development of the Workplace Participation Survey (v2)

Symposium 3 (Salon C):
Susanne Bruyere, Wendy Strobel-Gower, Sarah von Schrader, Kathleen Murphy:
NIDILRR Employee Grantees Strategies for Outreach to Business: Strategies to Inform the Design of Knowledge Translation

Symposium 4 (Salon A):
a) Anne Leopold:
Project Career: Using Technology to Help Students with TBI Transition From College to Employment

b) Weili Lu:
Trauma History, PTSD and Complicated Grief among Clients with Psychiatric Disabilities Receiving Supported Employment Services

Research Papers (Salon B):
a) Eric A Lauer, Andrew J Houtenville:
Integrating the Aging and Disability Focus of the Administration for Community Living using Statistics from National Surveys

b) Anne Ordway, Kurt Johnson:
Consumers’ and Providers’ Perspectives on the Home Care Aide Certification Training in Washington State

c) Randall Owen, Tamar Heller, Caitlin Crabb:
Impact of Family Involvement on Health and Long-Term Services and Supports of People with Disabilities

d) James Krause, Jill Newman:
A 40-year longitudinal study of spinal cord injury: Outcomes among those with extraordinary survival

c) Lynda Lahti Anderson, Sheryl Larson:
Partnerships in Wellness

d) Lynda Lahti Anderson, Sheryl Larson:
Self-reported Service Outcomes by Parents Responding to the National Core Indicators Family Surveys

Communicating the Practical Value of Disability and Rehabilitation Research

Symposium #5 (Salon A):
Michelle Meade, Eric Maslowski:
Gaming Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Translating Self-management to Promote Health and Independence of Adolescents and Young Adults with Spinal Cord Dysfunction

Research papers (Salon B)
a) Nicholas G. Rollins, Debra L. Brucker:
Disparities in Travel Distances, Travel Times, and Modes of Transportation Among Workers With and Without Disabilities

b) Mark Harniss, Becky Matter, Eva Larrauri, Kurt Johnson:
Traumatic brain injury in correctional settings: A knowledge translation project

c) Janet Peters:
Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology in Post- Secondary Education

d) Lillie Greiman, Andrew Myers, Christiane von Reichert, Tom Seekins:
Rural Matters: A Spatial Analysis of Disability Across Rural America

Symposium 6 (Salon A):
Craig Ravesloot, Lillie Greiman, Bryce Ward, Andrew Myers:
Housing Characteristics, Home Experiences and Community Engagement of People who Report Impairment

c) Suman Sarapali:
An Automated Incident Alerting System for Individuals with Disabilities

d) Lewis Kraus:
The ADA National Network/FEMA Webinar Series on Emergency Management and Preparedness—Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: What have We Learned from these National Webinars?