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On April 22, 2021, the Institute for Educational Leadership, AIR, and a panel of regional and global business leaders met for a discussion about the benefits to the business community in serving customers with disabilities. The panelists discussed business strategies for inclusion of people with disabilities and their families, from ...

Research suggests that students with a disability are less likely to enroll in and complete college than students without a disability. Join REL Southwest on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 4 p.m. EST to learn about the importance of providing targeted services for students with disabilities to transition to and be ...

People with disabilities are an important part of the workforce, but make 63 cents for every dollar earned by a person without a disability—and that gap rises as educational attainment increases. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, the Institute for Educational Leadership and AIR led a discussion on the challenges that ...

Researchers can use knowledge translation activities to promote the use of rigorous study findings. The goal of knowledge translation is for targeted audiences to learn how to apply relevant research evidence to their lives. When people become more aware and knowledgeable about research, they can change their own behavior—or the ...

The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR)'s 2016 online conference is designed for researchers and others to learn about current and innovative communication tools, including social media, in order to increase the use of evidence-based research findings though knowledge translation (KT) activities. Researchers funded by NIDILRR ...

How can surveys help vocational rehabilitation agencies carry out their work? Not only are surveys required by law, surveys also help describe the employment needs of those with a disability in a state. On June 2, AIR presented a webinar on planning, executing, and analyzing surveys. The webinar provided an ...

Why do vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies collect data and how do they use this data? VR agencies collect and report data to help make programmatic decisions and to improve programs to better serve VR consumers. On April 17, AIR presented a webinar about the value of data use, which included ...

On Friday, February 20, 2015 the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) will hold its Eighth Annual Research Conference. This year’s conference will bring together prominent education researchers and funders with policy makers and practitioners to have a dialogue about the types of research being ...