The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program within the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Cornell University to support the "MAKING WORK, WORK: QUALITY WORK AND QUALITY CARE TO SUPPORT LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION AND RETENTION OF CARE WORKERS AND CARE RECIPIENTS" project. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, will fund research, development, and training initiatives aimed at improving...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program within the Administration for Community Living, has awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct research on "Employer Attitudes and Practices Towards Hiring Justice-Involved Individuals with Disabilities: Improving Employer Engagement with Vocational Rehabilitation and Workforce Systems". This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2025, aims to improve...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program within the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $199,999 Project Grant to the University of North Texas (UNT), a Hispanic-Serving Institution, to explore and identify the life situation capability priorities for improved community living of older adults (aged 55+) with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) Identify and characterize...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $500,000 Project Grant titled "The Dignity of Work: Creating Pathways to Improved Employment Outcomes for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." The grant, awarded to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a prominent non-profit research organization, aims to support research,...
This $199,135 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) supports research to improve community living and participation among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families. The project, led by Vanderbilt University, will run from September 2024 to August 2027. The key products and services to be delivered include developing innovative technologies, intervention protocols,...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $249,999 Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. The grant, titled "Increasing Access to Evidence-Based Practices for Latino Families of Children with Autism: Development of the Embajadora Training and Outreach Program", will develop and implement a culturally-tailored training and outreach program to...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $197,312 Project Grant to Dominican University of California. The grant, which runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2027, will fund research to enhance arts and recreation participation among people with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) through occupational therapy consultation. The key objectives are to investigate the process components of...
This federal Project Grant award of $499,980.00 was provided by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) program. The award will fund a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for enhancing employment outcomes in adults with autism in Kentucky. The project will be conducted...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program aims to improve the inclusion of individuals with intellectual disability in autism neuroscience research. The $837,131 award to Yale University, effective February 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, will apply innovative technological and clinical approaches to collect neural and visual attentional data from 70 children with autism and intellectual...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), which is part of the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $249,999 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, to study the "Effectiveness of Medical Equipment Accessibility Scores for Consumer Purchase Decision-Making". The project will run from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028 and aims to improve the lives of people...