Technical Assistance and Training Available

Technical assistance activities of the NCDDR will include provision of materials, telephone conversations, linkages with appropriate resources, onsite consultations, and training sessions on principles and strategies for effective dissemination. The NCDDR maintains a toll-free hotline to facilitate voluntary, confidential, and responsive technical assistance.

Online interactive forms of technical assistance will be available to NIDRR grantees via the Internet. The NCDDR will establish an Internet information system for questions and responses from staff and others. NCDDR staff will establish interactive groups to allow NIDRR grantees to talk with staff and each other to explore issues related to the utilization of research outcomes.

NCDDR staff will be available, upon request by the grantee, to conduct onsite assessments and problem-solving for dissemination and utilization efforts, profile relative strengths/weaknesses and itemize potential strategies to improve dissemination.

Regional training events, planned and conducted by NCDDR staff, will focus on dissemination and utilization principles, and on specific strategies to address the special needs of user groups. These training events will be scheduled in collaboration with planned meetings, such as annual meetings of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (NARRTC), the Howard Davis Society for Knowledge Utilization, and others suggested by NIDRR grantees.

NCDDR staff may conduct a workshop at the annual NIDRR Project Director's Meeting to include orientation to resources available to grantees through the NCDDR, dissemination-related statistics, strategies for dissemination, dissemination-oriented research designs, and other topics of interest to NIDRR project directors. Call 1-800-266-1832 to request technical assistance.

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