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DUP Week: Skyrocketing Your Accessibility by Caitlyn A. Bukaty

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 8, 2017 July 30, 2017

Greetings! Caitlyn A. Bukaty here sharing some exciting insights with you during Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations Topical Interest Group week. Today I want to offer a few ideas my fellow evaluators might find helpful in making their evaluations more accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. This information comes from my experience collecting feedback from …

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DUP Week: Using Technology to Create an Inclusive Meeting Environment with Della Thomas and Marcia Kolvitz

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 7, 2017 July 30, 2017

Greetings! We are Della Thomas and Marcia Kolvitz. Della works with local school districts to providing language access services to students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Marcia is an educational consultant who focuses on professional development in the areas of transition planning and postsecondary opportunities for students and youth who are deaf or …

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DUP Week: What’s in a Name? with June Gothberg and Caitlyn Bukaty

Greetings and welcome from the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG week. We are June Gothberg, Chair and Caitlyn Bukaty, Program Chair. This week we have a strong line up of great resources, tips, and lessons learned for engaging typically underrepresented population in evaluation efforts. You might have noticed that we changed our name from Disabilities …

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Assuring Quality of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Services by Sherry Campanelli and Laura Newhall

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / June 11, 2017 June 11, 2017

Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services (DES). DES serves many individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) who are applying for public benefits due to a disability. As an organization, we are committed to promoting meaningful access for individuals …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Marginalized Populations

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 12, 2016 August 8, 2016

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, the Chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations TIG. We have been honored to be included in aea365 and hope that you have gained in your knowledge and expanded your evaluator toolbox this week. I would like to wrap up our week with the broad topic of inclusive evaluation. …

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DOVP Week: Sarah von Schrader and Katie Steigerwalt on Alternate Text

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 11, 2016 August 8, 2016

This is a post from Sarah von Schrader and Katie Steigerwalt at the Yang Tan institute on Employment and Disability at Cornell University. Sarah is a researcher and evaluator at the Institute, and Katie works with the Northeast ADA Center, which provides information, training, and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act. One of …

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DOVP Week: LaWanda Cook and David Filiberto on Lessons Learned from Evaluating Inclusive Fitness and Wellness Programs

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 10, 2016 August 8, 2016

We are LaWanda Cook and David Filiberto, research faculty at the Yang-Tan Institute (YTI) on Employment and Disability. One of the YTI’s Healthy Living initiatives, “Fits In: An Inclusive Fitness and Wellness Technical Assistance and Evaluation Program” is being undertaken to ascertain the effectiveness of enhanced training of fitness professionals to improve the inclusion of …

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DOVP Week: Amelia Maynard on Recruitment and Consent

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 9, 2016 August 8, 2016

Hi, I’m Amelia Maynard, Ph.D., District Analyst for the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota and an independent evaluator with Maynard Evaluations. I have worked to conduct inclusive evaluations with programs that target both individuals with disabilities and the general public. Individuals with disabilities are often excluded from evaluations because we are uncertain of how to …

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DOVP Week: Linda Thurston on Knowing your Stakeholders

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 8, 2016 August 8, 2016

My name is Linda Thurston and I serve as the associate dean for research in the college of education and Kansas State University. I have been a member of AEA for 16 years and have been co-chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations TIG. Lesson Learned: Have you thought about the potential characteristics of …

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DOVP Week: Caitlyn Bukaty, June Gothberg, and Sarah von Schrader on DOVP Leadership on Evaluation for All

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 7, 2016 August 7, 2016

Greetings from the Disability and Other Vulnerable Population (DOVP) TIG! We are the DVOP leadership team, Caitlyn Bukaty, June Gothberg, and Sarah von Schrader. This week we’re excited to share a series of posts focused on inclusive evaluation. Today we want you to consider: Who’s taking part in evaluation? In many cases the group of …

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