Daily Archive for April 19th, 2009

Link to ICDR
Stakeholders Site

The Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR) issued a reminder about its process for securing recommendations about priorities for about disability and rehabilitation research. Following its earlier call for recommendations, ICDR now solicits public voting about the agenda.

The ICDR Seeks Your Recommendations on Emerging Disability Research Topics

Web site provides opportunity to vote and prioritize disability issues of greatest concern

This year for the first time, the federally mandated Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR) is utilizing an innovative Web-based approach to collect online disability research comments to assist in developing a federal disability and rehabilitation 2010 research agenda. This technology-driven approach gives the public a three-week timeframe from March 27th through April 17th to submit their recommendations. Additionally, registered participants will be invited to review all comments submitted and vote on their top 10 concerns in each topic area during the one-week period from April 22nd through April 29th. Public comments from stakeholders are the focal point of the disability research recommendations in the ICDR Annual Report to the President and Congress.

All disability-related research topics are welcomed, including discussion about concerns important to the veteran and military communities. The ICDR is seeking comments with special emphasis placed in the following areas:

Collaboration and coordination among federal agencies;

Health information technology and/or electronic health records;

Health disparities;

Health promotion in the workplace;

Employment and health; and

Other critical research issues.

Guidelines and Instructions:

Access the ICDR Public Comment Web site: http://www.icdr.us/stakeholders for complete instructions, guidelines, and registration.

If you do not have access to a computer or the Internet, you may mail your comments to ICDR c/o CESSI, 6858 Old Dominion Drive, Suite 250, McLean, VA 22101 or fax to 703-442-9015. Please follow the following instructions for written comments:

• No longer than 250 words or 1500 characters
• Single-spaced using 12-point font in Times New Roman

Key Dates:

Web-based Public Comments: March 27 – April 17, 2009 (3:00 P.M. EDT)

Written Comments: March 27 – April 17, 2009 (Must be postmarked no later than the deadline)

Online Public Voting: April 22 – 29, 2009 (11:59 P.M. EDT)

Cross-posted to-from LD Blog.