Quick Looks at Research from NIDILRR-Funded Awards
The Center on KTDRR research flyers provide research-based, actionable information that can be understood quickly by a variety of audiences.
The flyers summarize research funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
and cover topics within disability and rehabilitation, such as home functionality improvement, self-directed home and community-based services,
and barriers to transportation in rural communities. KTDRR is developing more of these flyers. If you are a grantee with an actionable finding,
please get in touch to have KTDRR staff consider including your work in the next one!
Check out the flyers: Quick Looks at the Research from NIDILRR-Funded Awards.
12th Edition of the Knowledge Translation Casebook
We’re Excited to Announce the 12th Edition of the Knowledge Translation (KT) Casebook!
The KT Casebook highlights how NIDILRR grantees are implementing innovative, effective, and evidence-based KT strategies. This edition showcases a diverse range of projects, including:
- enhancing online research methods for people with cognitive disabilities,
- promoting community living and participation for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities,
- advancing employment opportunities for transition-age youth with disabilities, and
- addressing disability considerations in urban transportation planning.
This 12th edition of the KT Casebook offers valuable insights and practical examples of KT in action, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the field.
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
- From Research to Policy: Disability and Urban Transportation Planning, The Great Lakes ADA Center
- Practice-based Development and Peer-to-Peer Dissemination: Supportive Employment in College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment of Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities
- Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice: Centering the Voices of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration (ICI), Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Living and Participation Among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Integrated Knowledge Translation: Self-Advocates as Co-researchers and Collaborators to Improve Online Research Methods, VRM-IDD: Virtual Research Methods for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, American Institutes for Research
Thank You for Your Contributions!
We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who submitted entries for this edition of the KT Casebook. Your contributions showcase the incredible KT activities happening across NIDILRR projects.
If you are part of a NIDILRR-funded project, we encourage you to consider submitting an entry for the 13th edition of the KT Casebook. Our team is here to support you! We’ll work with you to discuss your project’s KT activities and help draft your entry.
Policy Portal:
An Online Directory of Disability Organizations
Are you a grantee looking for a dissemination outlet or project partner interested in improving policies to benefit people with disabilities?
The Center on KTDRR website houses a directory of 55 organizations that engage in disability policy discussions:
https://ktdrr.org/policyportal/
The Policy Portal serves as a directory for disability-oriented organizations with which NIDILRR grantees can work to disseminate their research findings and establish connections with the listed organizations. The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), The Arc, and the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) have helped to build out the directory. Each year, KTDRR staff update contact information listed.
To be included in the directory, an organization must meet the following criteria:
- National in scope
- Actively engaged in policy discussions with other disability-focused organizations and/or policymakers regarding legislation aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities
- Free from commercial interests
These organizations are well-positioned to use research findings to enhance policies affecting people with disabilities and their families.
The Center on KTDRR offers various services to policy portal members, including:
- identifying recent NIDILRR-funded publications that align with organizational policy priorities,
- summarizing pertinent research, and
- connecting members with NIDILRR-funded researchers to foster better communication between NIDILRR researchers and the disability policy community.
If you represent a disability policy organization and wish to be added to the list or update your organization’s information, please contact us at
ktdrr@air.org for more details on our inclusion criteria.
Register for preNARRTC Storytelling Workshop
Registration is open now for the in-person storytelling workshop that the Center on KTDRR is hosting at the Embassy Suites Hotel in
Alexandria, Virginia, the site of the annual meeting of NARRTC. The workshop will guide participants through the process from
storytelling principles to polished written story producing, by the workshop’s conclusion, a self-created, well-crafted 2-minute
story on their research or priority issue. Mary Bayer of Bayer Strategic Consulting will facilitate.
When: The afternoon of Monday, April 21, 2025
This is an in-person event with no online option. It will not be archived.
Where: Embassy Suites, Alexandria Old Town (Alexandria, VA).
Registration closes 6:00 p.m. ET on April 14, 2025.
Workshop Registration Link:
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8133000/Registration-2025-Storytelling-Workshop
Note: The workshop is free and open to the public. However, registration is capped at 15 attendees, and we will give priority to grantees of the National Institute on Disabilities, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
The Center on KTDRR does not cover travel costs for attendees.
Call for Submissions:
NARRTC “Best Paper” Award due January 6, 2025
Did you publish a research paper funded by a NIDILRR project in 2024?
Take a minute by January 6, 2025, and email it to NARRTC’s Research Committee Chair Sarah von Schrader at sv282@cornell.edu. Please use the subject line “NARRTC Paper Award.”
That’s all you need to do to have your article considered for a NARRTC Best Paper Award!
Research Committee members use methodological guidelines to judge for rigor and quality. They will select three finalists to present their research during a Best Paper Panel NARRTC meeting session. NARRTC will take place April 22-23, 2025, at the Embassy Suites in Alexandria, Virginia. Registration fees will be waived for each of the three finalists, and they will also receive an honorarium.
Your submission must meet the following criteria:
- Acknowledges NIDILRR as the funding source.
- Has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Has been published in the calendar year 2024 (online first is acceptable).
- Reports on research that has received most of its funding from NIDILRR.
- Qualitative, quantitative studies, clinical trials, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and secondary analyses are all acceptable; however, literature reviews are not eligible.
- You can submit only one article per NIDILRR award.
The winner must be a NARRTC member. If the winner is not a member at the time of application, they must become a member before receiving the award. (See the Bylaws for membership criteria).
Benefits of Brandwatch
The Center on KTDRR offers free use of Brandwatch, a social media tool, and its related technical assistance to all
NIDILRR grantees; the Center has
previously released three explanatory videos about this tool.
This fourth video in the Center on KTDRR’s five-part series on Brandwatch discusses how to analyze trending hashtags. Organizations can use hashtags as powerful tools to increase the visibility of their content, reach target audiences, and engage with their followers. By strategically researching and seeing what other hashtags like-minded groups are using, your organizations can discover ways to differentiate your content and resources.
Watch now: Analyzing Trending Hashtags
Are you a NIDILRR grantee and interested in learning more about how Brandwatch might apply to your work?
Email ktdrr@air.org and let us know!
2024 KT Conference Archives
#ICYMI: Archives of our 2024 virtual KT conference ”Disability Inclusion, Intersectionality and Knowledge Translation” are now available. Attendees gained valuable insights from our presenters—a mix of distinguished panelists and fellow NIDILRR grantees—about participatory research, how best to elevate and learn from first-person voices and lived experiences, leveraging KT strategies in a rural context, and more! Check out
our archive page to see a full list of recordings, presentations, and resources.
KTDRR also hosted 13 new artists for the conference’s art gallery this year. They submitted art pieces as it relates to the following topics:
- Art as a powerful tool for sharing information with the disability community
- The importance of relationships in the exchange of information
- The need for more inclusive ways of generating and sharing research
- The importance of sharing research findings with people with disabilities
- The best ways to share research findings with people with disabilities
Be on the lookout at ktdrr.org and in the next KT Update for more information about the 2025 conference!
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Calling All NIDILRR GRANTEES!
KT Update Wants to Hear from YOU!
Do you have any upcoming public meetings, conference notices, articles, reports, or other resources that you would like the Center on KTDRR to share with the broader KT community? If so, let us know! Please email Felice Trirogoff (ftrirogoff@air.org) with a brief description (150 words or less), as well as any related and accessible images, relevant URLs, and grantee contact information.
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