1 / 21

Technology for Independence

Technology for Independence. Dr. Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D. Kierscht Professor of Law Director, Law, Health Policy & Disability Center University of Iowa College of Law http://www.its.uiowa.edu/law. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center (LHPDC).

gannon-hardin
Télécharger la présentation

Technology for Independence

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Technology for Independence Dr. Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D. Kierscht Professor of Law Director, Law, Health Policy & Disability Center University of Iowa College of Law http://www.its.uiowa.edu/law

  2. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center(LHPDC) • Relevant and rigorous research in law, policy, and technology to promote full inclusion, choice, and economic independence. • Dissemination of research and technical assistance with federal, state, and local stakeholders, corporations, foundations, and non-profits. • Educate the next generation of professionals with and without disabilities from varied disciplines. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  3. LHPDC Interdisciplinary Perspectives • Law • Disability Studies • Social, clinical, and experimental psychology • Social work • Computer science and instructional design • Public health and policy • Rehabilitation Counseling • Economics • History • Medicine Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  4. LHPDC Broad Range of Complementary Projects • U.S. Department of Education, NIDRR, six funded projects (e.g., IT Works, IT-CBRC, RRTC). • U.S. Department of Labor, four funded projects (e.g., WIA, TWWIIA). • State government, three funded projects (e.g., benefits planning). • Private Foundations (e.g., Robert Wood Johnson, Milbank). • Corporations • University Foundations Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  5. LHPDC Broad Range of Project Goals • Employment, technology, and health policy (e.g., ADA, Section 508, SSI/SSDI benefits). • Multiple stakeholders with focus on participatory action research (PAR). • Outcomes not only Outputs (e.g., law, policy, and systems change). Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  6. Projects and Research on Access to Technology • Research/testimony before Congress on applicability of ADA Title III to private Internet sites. • ADA Title III and the Internet: Technology and Civil Rights, Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter. Vol. 24 No 5 - Sep/Oct 2000. www.its.uiowa.edu/law/lhpdc/publications/documents/blancketaldocs/ADA_Title_3_and_Internet.doc • Congressional Testimony on ADA and Internet. www.its.uiowa.edu/law/lhpdc/publications/documents/blanckdocs/blanck_statement.doc Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  7. ADA and Internet Access • Litigation against Southwest and American Airlines for access to web-based ticketing (Access Now, Oct. 2002). http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1032128683422 • Court ruling that Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority violated the ADA by not having schedule/route information in accessible formats (Oct. 2002, U.S. D.C.). • Lawsuits settled • AOL (National Federation of the Blind, 1999) • Barnes & Noble, Claire’s Stores (Access Now, 2000-02) • Web developers examine accessible technology on discussion boards such as Slashdot. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/10/06/2340204.shtml?tid=103 Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  8. Technology for Independence:A Community-Based Resource Center (TI-CBRC) • New partnership of LHPDC and Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU), Lex Frieden, at Baylor. • Focus on technology access and use, employment policy, environmental barriers, as civil rights issues. • Assist consumer directed organizations and CILs on research and projects to promote access to technology. • Multiple strategies with PAR, leadership development, technical assistance, web conference training, distance education, and annual symposia. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  9. Closing Thoughts“FIRE” • Focus: community, policy, and outcome oriented. • Involvement: multiple stakeholders, PAR • Research: involve multiple methods/measures • Enhancement: core ADA principles and policy • Economic Independence • Full Inclusion • Choice • Equality of Opportunity Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  10. LHPDC Contact Information Phone: (319) 335-8469; Fax: (319) 335-9764 Law, Health Policy and Disability Center University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, IA 52242-5000 Web: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/law Discussion: http://lhpd.law.uiowa.edu/bbs Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  11. Further Summary Information • Projects • Goals Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  12. IT Works • Identify barriers to and facilitators of the hiring, retention, advancement, and wages of individuals with disabilities. • Test strategies to improve hiring, retention, advancement and wages of individuals with disabilities. • Provide training and disseminate research findings. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  13. IT Works • Develop theoretical model incorporating environmental factors, organizational factors, attitudinal factors, and individual characteristics to predict hiring rate, advancement rate, retention rate, and wages of individuals with disabilities. • Survey and interview: • Human resource managers at IT and non-IT companies (defined by Information Technology Association of America), • Individuals with disabilities working at these companies, • Individuals with disabilities who graduated from federally funded IT training and employment programs, • Directors of these training programs, and • IT trainers. • Five-year longitudinal approach to identify trends in these measures over time. Case studies, descriptive statistics, and multivariate regression analyses performed on the outcome measures to assess the influences of predictor measures, in combination and alone. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  14. RRTC on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy • Implement a crosscutting research agenda that will increase our knowledge and understanding of the impact of workforce development and employment policy on the health, well being, and economic status of Americans with disabilities. • Analyze policy barriers and facilitators to employment for working age adults with disabilities considering major policy reforms regarding education, employment training, welfare, and health care. • Frame new questions about the relationships between federal and state policy, employment and access to health care, civil rights and effective and meaningful coordination of services and supports of the emerging new workforce development system and outcome-based reimbursement strategies for delivery of employment services and individual choice. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  15. Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center • Collaboration through Georgia Institute of Technology. • Focuses on research, training and technical assistance with states on Section 508 and 255 compliance. • Provides ITTATC with a government and industry liaison officer in Washington, D.C. • Identifies best practices at the state level in Section 508 IT accessibility and procurement policies and procedures. • Offer information, training, and technical assistance to state stakeholders, industry, and the disability community about IT and telecommunications accessibility. • Collaborating with: State AT projects, the RESNA TA project, State CIO's, and the State Information Technology Access Coalition. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  16. Great Plains ADA & IT CenterRegion VII DBTAC State Partner • Collaboration with University of Missouri at Columbia – DBTAC directed by Jim De Jong. • Provide technical assistance and information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and accessible information technology. • Serve businesses, institutions, agencies and individuals throughout Iowa. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  17. Region VII CRP-RCEP Distance Education Project • Collaboration with University of Missouri at Columbia • Content designed by UM, distance education by UI • Employment Services distance learning course • Introductory training for newly hired employment services personnel. • Based on 16 competencies and covers basic concepts of employment service delivery. • Concepts include, basic values for employment services, person-first language, marketing, creating a support plan, and supporting the customer on the job, problem solving techniques and addressing customer satisfaction. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  18. Job Accommodation Network • Survey JAN users regarding job-related accommodations, small business and self-employment services, educational and training accommodation, information and referral requests, and marketing materials. • Determine the following information from the sample: • caller demographics . • overall satisfaction with services provided by JAN. • status of accommodation recommended (e.g., implemented, pending, or rejected.) • costs associated with making the accommodation. • satisfaction with the accommodation made. • estimated benefits and other impacts resulting from the accommodation and/or information provided. • final outcome for the individual with a disability (e.g., hired, retained, placed on disability leave, etc.) Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  19. Technical Assistance to Work Incentive Grantees of DOL/ETA • Assist states and local communities to bring together public and private resources that respond to market needs for skilled labor and customer needs for employment and related support services. • Resource to 46 Work Incentive Grantees, community partners, and subcontractors. • Facilitate policy and program development at a state and local systems level as part of a process of continued improvement of opportunities and employment results for youth and working age adults with disabilities. • Understand current policy development across federal agencies that are relevant to your systems change and capacity building efforts. • Exchange information on promising system change activities and keep up to date on other grantee strategies and outcomes. • Identify barriers and problem solve policy and practice solutions that advance access and effective participation in the Workforce Development System at a local community level. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  20. National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult Partner • Collaboration with The Institute for Community Inclusion and many other partners. • Providing key policy research and analysis on participation of individuals with disabilities in the workforce system. • Provide training and technical assistance to stimulate opportunity for participation in the workforce development system. • www.onestops.info Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

  21. Subcontract with ServiceSource for work with the DOL-funded OneSource Customized Employment Project in Virginia • LHPDC role: Development of local and statewide policy initiatives, lead strategic planning activities. • Project goals: • Increase the number of people with disabilities served in the workforce investment system. • Increase the number of people with disabilities in community integrated employment. • Increase the wages of people with disabilities served by the workforce investment system. • Improve the capacity of the workforce investment system to provide customized employment to people with disabilities. Law, Health Policy & Disability Center

More Related