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News and Notes 545 January 18
During January, which is Braille Literacy Month, NARIC staff looks at braille literacy and how researchers and developers in the NIDILRR community and elsewhere support it in their Spotlight Blog; This Just In... features a study determining the number, length of stay, and charges of rehospitalizations during the first 5 years after the onset of traumatic spinal cord injury; Research in Focus features study offering insights into barriers to paid employment facing youth with severe disabilities; Rehabilitation Research and Training on Employment Policy: Center for Disability-Inclusive Employment Policy Research releases second season of its podcast series, Let's Get To Work: Reimagining Disability-Inclusive Employment Policy Podcast, featuring a diverse group of subject matter experts including people with lived experiences with disabilities, the business community, civil rights, and economics; researcher from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment of People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision receives the 2022 Employment Award from the Mississippi Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (MAER); the Southeast ADA Regional Center launches virtual interview series, Section 504 at 50, celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. including Section 504, protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities from discrimination; the Northeast ADA Regional Center hosts webinar, The Year 2022 in Review; the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics (StatsRRTC) hosts webinar, Virtual Release of the Annual Disability Statistics Section; The Mid-Atlantic ADA Regional Center hosts webinar, Creating Accessible Recreational Gaming; the CARE Study: Community Access Through Remote Eyesight seeks participants for its study to examine how assistive mobile applications support everyday tasks for individuals living with low vision; the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) at the Department of Labor publishes the Employment-Population Ratio Map and the Median Annual Earnings Map, two interactive data maps to help better understanding the disability employment landscape across the United States.
In the US, January is Braille Literacy Month, which raises awareness about braille, its history, and how people with visual disabilities use it for reading and writing. January 4th is the anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, who invented the code at the age of 15, and is celebrated as World Braille Day. Braille is beneficial, not only to people who are blind, but to people with different types of visual disabilities or multi-sensory loss – including people who are DeafBlind. NIDILRR funds research and development of technologies that support people with visual disabilities and/or multi-sensory loss as they learn, work, and play in their communities of choice. In our Spotlight Blog, NARIC staff looked at braille literacy, why it is important, and how researchers and developers in the NIDILRR Community and elsewhere support it.
