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Disability Research Institute
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SSA Disability Benefits: Apply, Qualify...Return to Work |
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9:00-9:15am Introductory Remarks: Pictured From Left: Tanya Gallagher, Tim Johnson and Chrisann Schiro-Geist |
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9:15-9:30am Welcome: Pictured Left: Martin Gerry |
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Apply |
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Chair: Susan Grad, Acting Associate Commissioner of Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics, SSA | |
Early
Intervention Demonstration Project - Monroe
Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey Pictured Left: Monroe Berkowitz |
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Paths
to the Disability Insurance Program - Todd Honeycutt,
Research Analyst, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Reactor: Denise G. Tate, Associate Professor, University of Michigan |
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Validation
of the Medical Listings Project - Rick Roessler,
Research Coordinator, Disability Research Institute, University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Disabled
Non-Beneficiaries Who Work - Mary
Grace Kovar, Consultant, University of Chicago, National
Opinion Research Center Reactor: William G. Johnson, Professor, Arizona State University |
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Qualify |
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Chair: Ken Nibali, Associate Commissioner, Office of Disability, SSA | |
Job Demands
Project - Allen
Heinemann, Professor, Northwestern University, Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago Pictured Left: Allen Heinemann |
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Validation
of the Medical Listings Project - Rick Roessler,
Research Coordinator, Disability Research Institute, University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Disabled
Non-Beneficiaries Who Work - Mary
Grace Kovar, Consultant, University of Chicago, National
Opinion Research Center Reactor: William G. Johnson, Professor, Arizona State University |
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Lunch |
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Keynote Speech: Historical Perspectives on Disability Policy - Edward D. Berkowitz, Professor, George Washington University | |
Return to Work |
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Chair:
Ken McGill, Associate Commissioner, Office
of Employment Support Programs, SSA
Barriers
to Employment Among Persons with Mental Impairments
Scott Bilder, Research Analyst, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey Community
Rehabilitation Programs - Fred
Menz, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Stout |
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Human
Factors and Employment Issues Related to the Use of Assistive Technologies
- Brad
Hedrick, Director, Division of Rehabilitation-Education
Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pictured Left: Brad Hedrick |
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New Work
Arrangements and Disability Income - Lisa
Schur, Assistant Professor and Douglas
Kruse, Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Pictured Left: Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse |
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Employment
Outcomes for Persons with Disabilities in A Mature Economic Environment
- Edward Yelin, Professor,
University of California, San Francisco Reactor: Virginia P. Reno, Vice President for Research, National Academy of Social Insurance |
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DRI Small Grant Awards |
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Chair: Sue Suter, Developmental Disability Program Specialist, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services Accessing the World of Work: Concerns of
African Americans with Disabilities Actively Seeking Employment
- Fabricio
E. Balcazar, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago The Decline in Employment of People with
Disabilities in the 1990s: Disentangling Composition Changes and
Measurement Errors from the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities
Act - Thomas
DeLeire, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
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Determinants of the Adult Achievements of
Child SSI Beneficiaries: Evidence from Linked Public-Use Data and
Social Security Administration Records - Elizabeth
Powers, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pictured Left: Elizabeth Powers |
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Future Directions |
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Chair: Chrisann Schiro-Geist Richard Horne, Senior Policy Advisor, Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities, Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor Thomas Hale, Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics Marlene Simon, Associate Division Director, Research to Practice Division, Office of Special Education Programs |
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Harold B. Kay, Jr., Director of Evaluation, Rehabilitation Services Administration/OSER Pictured Left: Harold Kay |
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Closing Remarks and Reception |
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Closing Remarks: Tanya Gallagher Reception Speaker: Mark V. Nadel, Associate Director of the Income Security issue area at the General Accounting Office |