National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers Plan WWW Gateway

NCDDR staff were invited to make a staff development presentation at the recent meeting of the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (NARRTC). This presentation focused on principles of effective dissemination, patterns of past dissemination, and resources available to grantees to assist in development and implementation of their dissemination plans.

The NARRTC has indicated a desire to work with the NCDDR to create a gateway on the WWW that will focus on their unique membership and accomplishments. Development of these doorways will include components discussed earlier for the MSCIS but will also include features such as:

• enhancement of the current project descriptions/abstracts to improve the ability of the NCDDR search engine to distinguish between projects and facilitate more appropriate sorting within the search process
• participation in the development of a typology of "outcomes" that may represent the scope of results/accomplishments that are realized through the NIDRR-funded program as a whole
• investigation of the extent to which experimental designs and "tentative" conclusions can be advantageously shared with consumers, family members of consumers, or other researchers

Progress in this development effort will be reported in future issues. Individuals wishing to comment on the development of this and other doorways are encouraged to contact the NCDDR staff.

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