The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living is seeking applications for improving Methods for Conducting Research with People with Cognitive Disabilities in Virtual Environments.
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/08/2023
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 60 months
Details:
Purpose
The purpose of the DRRPs is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act, by generating new knowledge, or developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of health and function, community living, and employment outcomes among people with disabilities, especially people with disabilities who have the greatest support needs. Under this particular DRRP priority, the grantee must conduct research toward the development of rigorous research methods and approaches that can be used in virtual environments to enable people with cognitive disabilities to share valid, reliable, and meaningful data about their experiences and outcomes. People with cognitive disabilities may include but are not limited to those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, traumatic brain injury, dementia, or stroke.
Priorities
The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living establishes a priority for a Disability Rehabilitation Research Project (DRRP) on Improving Methods for Conducting Research with People with Cognitive Disabilities in Virtual Environments. The DRRP must contribute to the outcome of establishing new research methods and approaches to enable people with cognitive disabilities to share valid, reliable, and meaningful data about their experiences and outcomes when participating in research that uses remote virtual technologies.
To contribute to this outcome, the DRRP must–
- Conduct research in the following priority areas, focusing on people with cognitive disabilities as a group or on people in specific cognitive disability subpopulations:
- Identifying the challenges and consequences of conducting research in remote virtual environments with people with cognitive disabilities, including those with the greatest support needs.
- Developing research methods and approaches to overcome the challenges and minimize the adverse consequences of conducting research in remote virtual environments with people with cognitive disabilities.
- Testing the effectiveness of the research methods and approaches developed in (a)(ii) of this priority, in enabling people with cognitive disabilities to share, and researchers to collect valid, reliable, and meaningful research data.
- Focus its research on a specific stage of research. If the DRRP is to conduct research that can be categorized under more than one stage, including research that progresses from one stage to another, those stages must be clearly specified and justified. These stages: exploration and discovery, intervention development, intervention efficacy, and scale-up evaluation, are defined in this funding opportunity announcement. Applicants must justify the need and rationale for research at the proposed stage or stages and describe fully an appropriate methodology or methodologies for the proposed research.
- Conduct knowledge translation activities (i.e., utilization, dissemination) to facilitate stakeholder (e.g., individuals with cognitive disabilities, researchers, policymakers, practitioners) use of the knowledge, research tools, technologies, or products that result from the research activities conducted under paragraph (a) of this priority.
- Demonstrate, in its original application, that people with cognitive disabilities from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds will be included in study samples in sufficient numbers to generate knowledge and products that are relevant to the racial and ethnic diversity of the population of people with cognitive disabilities being studied. The DRRP must describe and justify, in its original application, the planned racial and ethnic distribution of people with cognitive disabilities who will participate in the proposed research activities.
- Involving people with cognitive disabilities and members of other key stakeholder groups in the activities conducted under paragraph (a) – (c) to maximize the relevance and usability of the new knowledge and products generated and distributed by the DRRP. Such involvement is consistent Delivering Equitable Outcomes in Partnership with Underserved Communities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
- Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Award Floor: $495,000
- Period of Performance: 60 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- County governments
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Special district governments.
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