Disabilities

Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith on Conducting a Health Needs Assessment of People with Disabilities

Hi, we are Monika Mitra and Lauren Smith from the Disability, Health, and Employment Policy unit in the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Our research is focused on health disparities between people with and without disabilities. Evaluating a Population of People with Disabilities In collaboration with the …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Involving Vulnerable Populations in Evaluation and Research

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, incoming Director of the Michigan Transition Outcomes Project and past co-chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations topical interest group at AEA.  I hope you’ve enjoyed a great week of information specific to projects involving these populations.  As a wrap up I thought I’d end with broad information on …

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DOVP Week: Linda Thurston on Evaluating Teacher Performance Must Include Students from Vulnerable Populations

Hello from Kansas, the nation’s breadbasket!  I am Linda Thurston, Associate Dean of the College of Education at Kansas State University and long-time member of AEA. I am the 2013 co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations (DOVP) TIG.  DOVP welcomes you to a week of aea365 articles focused on information and resources to help …

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Stan Capela on The Philosophical Evaluator

As an evaluator I am often confronted by questions that I often think about while taking the Staten Island Ferry at the end of the day. My name is Stan Capela and I am the VP for Quality Management and Corporate Compliance Officer for HeartShare Human Services. I am also the current AEA Government TIG …

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DOVP Week: Mary Moriarty on Planning and Implementing Disability-based Evaluations

I’m Mary Moriarty, independent consultant and evaluator with Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. For 10 years I have specialized in evaluation of programs that serve underrepresented populations, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). I previously directed several programs focused on increasing representation of individuals with disabilities in STEM. I now realize the …

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DOVP Week: Gordon Bonham on the Benefits of Using Interviewers with Disabilities

Hello, I am Gordon Bonham, owner of Bonham Research, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Measuring the quality of life of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (ID/DD) presents a number of challenges. Lessons Learned: Although it is generally assumed that self response is better than proxy response when people have the ability to respond for themselves, …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Keeping it Simple and Intuitive

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, the State Technical Assistance Coordinator for the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC). I am also co-chair of AEA’s Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations TIG (DOVP). As we worked together on this week’s AEA365 blog, we wanted bring you practical resources, hints, and tricks for including people with disabilities …

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DOVP Week: JS Sulewski on Using Universal Design to Make Evaluations Inclusive

My name is Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski and I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts Boston. At ICI I have worked on a variety of research and evaluation projects related to services and supports for people with disabilities. I currently am most involved with Work Without …

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