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Click here for fact sheets about our major research project on community participation by people with disabilities.

These include a report with public policy implications titled:
"HCBS Waiver: Economic Utility and Related Health Outcomes."

This is part of a larger project that creates an assessment model that state Medicaid programs can use to monitor the cost effectiveness and health outcomes of individuals with disabilities who are on a Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver.

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Mental Disability and the ADA: Public Policy in the Courtroom
      Beginning with a brief overview of the Americans With Disabilities Act, this paper explores the issues of disability, direct threat, and reasonable accommodations as they apply to people with psychiatric disabilities with an emphasis on relevant court decisions. Author: M. Rempfer

Building Consumer Consensus on IL Using the Concerns Report
      By asking people with mental retardation, brain injury, and psychiatric disabilities to identify their independent living needs, a method to develop interventions and accommodations that will result in increased and improved center for independent living services was illustrated. Author: J. G. Youngbauer


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