Current Activities

2007

NEW! NTAC-AAPI Leaders Receive NEC Foundation of America Grant

Dr. Jong Bae Kim (NTAC-AAPI network member and a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Weol Soon Kim-Rupnow (NTAC-AAPI Project Director) received a one-year grant of $53,000 from the NEC Foundation of America. The grant is for a pilot study to determine the applicability and effectiveness of the Remote Accessibility Assessment System (RAAS) of the built environment for individuals with mobility disabilities in the Pacific Islands. The study will recruit three users of a wheeled mobility device (such as a wheelchair) in Hawai‘i and use the RASS to assess their problems of accessibility in their daily work activities. The RAAS was developed by Dr. Kim and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. The Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa will provide administrative leadership in managing and disseminating the results of this study.

Earn 10 CEUs Online

The eighth offering of the “Introduction to Disability/Rehabilitation with Asian/Pacific Islander Americans” online course is tentatively set to begin on January 14, 2008. For a nominal tuition payment of $20, you can earn ten Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to apply to your CRC. Each offering of this month-long course has been facilitated by NTAC-AAPI, with Paul Leung, Professor and Director of the Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Addictions at the University of North Texas, and Nan Zhang Hampton, Associate Professor of the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education at San Diego State University serving as professors. For more information, or to preview the required readings before the next course begins, please go to the following Web site: http://www.ntac.hawaii.edu/AAPIcourse/. To be placed on the mailing list for that course, please send an email to James D. Brightman, NTAC-AAPI Vocational Rehabilitation Coordinator, at jamesdb@hawaii.edu.

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