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Please excuse any cross posting. >Subject: FW: your input needed by October 23!!! > >Please forward if you have not seen this yet. > >Scott >Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:03 PM > > >President Clinton issued an Executive Memorandum requiring the >Interagency >Committee on Disability Research (ICDR), to prepare a report identifying >priority needs for new assistive technologies and universal designs. This >memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies, issued on >July 25th, >directs that the report be prepared in cooperation with the disability >and >the research communities. > >The ICDR, which is chaired by the National Institute on >Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) is gathering data from its >member agencies and researchers. The report will be based on: > >· a comprehensive literature review; >· interviews and written contributions from Federal, State, and >private-sector specialists; >· input from Federal and State agency data bases; >· conduct of focus groups to elicit consumer viewpoints; and >· information gathered from the disability community. > >Conwal Incorporated, a federal government contractor that provides >support >to the ICDR, is collecting information from the disability community for >the > >Report to the President through a special website: > >http://www.conwal.com/icdr/execmemo/. > >The website will be operational for a short time only as all >feedback must be collected by October 23, 2000 to be included in the >report. > >We are asking for input from representatives of the disability community >including individuals with disabilities and their family members, >disability >organizations, and service providers. > >Please feel free to share this address with others as we want to hear >from >as many people as possible. We thank you in advance for your response. > > > > > > > Elaine Gerber, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, Policy Research and Program Evaluation American Foundation for the Blind phone: (212) 502-7644 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%