NIDRR Grantees and Staff Receive Recognition

The NCDDR congratulates each of the following NIDRR grantees or staff members. All NIDRR grantees are encouraged to contact the NCDDR with information to share in future issues of The Research Exchange.

Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), was chosen to address the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW6) in Santa Clara, California, on April 6, 1997. This forum was used to launch the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which is coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The project will guide the development of industry-sponsored specifications for accessibility of software programs and technology that will use the Internet as a means of communications. Interest also has been received from several European nations and trade organizations in supporting the project. The project is jointly funded by the Federal government, several foundations and the technology industry, represented by the top 150 international technology corporations that comprise the W3C. NIDRR/OSERS and the National Science Foundation are the principal Federal participants in this project.

NIDRR-funded researchers Dr. Wayne Gordon and Dr. Scott Richards were appointed to the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) Study Section in late 1996. The purpose of this expert group is to review grant applications and make funding suggestions to the NCMRR.

Dr. Gordon, Principal Investigator of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on the Community Integration of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury at Mount Sinai Medical Center, was also honored on October 1, 1996. He was presented with a Recognition Award from the New York State Department of Health for "...his visionary work, dedicated efforts and steadfast commitment on behalf of individuals and families who experience brain injury." Dr. Gordon can be contacted at (212) 241-7917 or by e-mail: wayne_gordon@smtplink.mssm.edu

Dr. Richards is Director of Research at the RRTC in Secondary Complications in Spinal Cord Injury, Spain Rehabilitation Center, at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. In December, 1996 Dr. Richards was awarded Diplomate status by the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology. For more information, contact him at (205) 934-3454 or by e-mail: richards@rehabm.uab.edu

The May 19, 1997 edition of U.S. News and World Report Online featured an article called "Catching Sight of the Web" It is found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/19blin.htm.

The online story is specially designed with large print, real audio, color combinations and text to try to accommodate the blind or low-vision user. To complement the story, a "resources" section has been added which includes a mention of ABLEDATA, and acknowledges that it is sponsored by the Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The U.S. News site links to other NIDRR-supported grantees such as the Trace Center and WGBH, as well as other resources.

Lynn Halverson is Principal Investigator for ABLEDATA and can be reached at (301) 572-0477 or by e-mail at abledata@microint.com

Gregg Vanderheiden, Ph.D. is Principal Investigator of the RERC on Adaptive Computers and Information Systems and Understanding and Increasing the Adoption of Universal Design in Product Design at the Trace Center. He can be reached at (608) 262-6966 or by e-mail at gv@trace.wisc.edu

Larry Goldberg, Principal Investigator for CPB/WGBH's Motion Picture Access II project, can be reached at (617) 492-2777 or via e-mail at larry_goldberg@wgbh.org

Researchers at Meeting the Challenge, Inc. have been honored for the second consecutive year by the Colorado Chapter of the Technology Transfer Society for work done in transferring Small Business Initiative Research (SBIR) results into technology products. This year's award is for PocketCoach, a hand-held audio prompting device that was developed through research sponsored by the NIDRR. Researchers Daniel K. Davies (Transition AbleAide: A Needs-Based Computer System for Matching Assistive Technology and Home Automation Devices to Students Transitioning from School to Adult Life Project) and Steven E. Stock (MenuCoach: A Multimedia Software Tool to Enhance Independence and Knowledge in Menu Planning, Grocery Shopping, Meal Preparation, and General Nutrition for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Project) were at the Denver Museum of Natural History in January of 1997 to receive the award. The two men accepted the same award in 1996 on behalf of Meeting the Challenge for developing Phase I and II SBIR projects into MoneyCoach, a multimedia budgeting and checkbook management software program for persons with developmental disabilities. Meeting the Challenge is the only company to ever receive more than one award from the Society, and the only company ever to receive an award for work done in the disability field. For more information, call Meeting the Challenge, Inc. at (719) 444-0252, or send e-mail to Daniel Davies at dkdavies@mtc-inc.com and Steven Stock at snohawke@mtc-inc.com.

Brian Bolton, Ph.D. and Jeanne Neath, Ph.D. of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Enhancing Employment at the University of Arkansas received the 1996 Research Award from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA). The award, shared with Dr. James Bellini of Syracuse University, was given for their joint study "Influence of Applicants' Personal History on Counselors' Ratings of Functional Limitations." The study was published in the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, Vol. 39, pages 265-275. The award was presented at the ARCA National Convention in Orlando, Florida on April 5, 1997. Drs. Bolton and Neath serve as faculty at the Arkansas Research & Training Center. Contact Roy C. Farley, Ed.D., Principal Investigator of the Arkansas RRTC on Enhancing Employment, at (501) 624-4411 or by e-mail at rfarley@comp.uark.edu

Dr. William Anthony, Principal Investigator of the Research and Training Center in Rehabilitation for Persons With Long-Term Mental Illness received two awards in 1996. The American Psychiatric Association presented him the Van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation for his "tireless advocacy on behalf of people with severe mental illness, noteworthy contributions in research and scholarship, and innovative approaches to development of a wide variety of psychiatric rehabilitation." He also received the GROW In America's Con Keyogh Visionary Award for "sharing with the world a vision of recovery." Dr. Anthony may be reached at (617) 353-3549 or by e-mail: wanthony@bu.edu.

Researchers of the Northern New Jersey Model Spinal Cord Injury System have been recognized for a number of achievements. Dr. Joel DeLisa, Principal Investigator, was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists for l997. He also received the Sixteenth Annual Sidney Licht Lectureship award from the Ohio State University School of Medicine on March 7, l997. Dr. DeLisa gave the Fourteenth Annual James W. Rae Scientific Day Lecture at the University of Michigan Medical Center on May 9, l997.

Marca L. Sipski, M.D., and Craig J. Alexander, Ph.D., Project Co-Directors, received the Elizabeth and Sidney Licht Award for the most outstanding article published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The article entitled "Orgasm in Women with Spinal Cord Injuries" was published in Vol. 76 (December 1995). Drs. Sipski and Alexander also recently co-edited the book Sexuality with Disability and Chronic Illness: A Health Practitioner's Guide which will be available from Aspen Publishers in August, l997. For more information, contact Drs. DeLisa, Sipski, and Alexander at (201) 243-6805.

Steven J. Taylor, Ph.D., Principal Investigator of the National Resource Center on Community Integration for People with Mental Retardation, has received the 1997 Research Award of the American Association on Mental Retardation. Dr. Taylor received the award "for significant contributions to the body of scientific knowledge in the field of mental retardation." His NIDRR-funded research has led to "the development of new concepts and principles that have gained widespread acceptance in the field." Dr. Taylor can be contacted for more information at (315) 443-3851 or via e-mail at thechp@sued.syr.edu

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