Assessing Community Environments and Participation with People with I/DD: A Consumer Directed Approach (R10)
Principal Investigator: Joy Hammel, OTR/L, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator(s): Gary Kielhofner, PhD, Robin Jones, OT, MPA

Goals:

• Use and evaluate a participatory action research process to:
  • assess community environments & participation of people with I/DD
  • study the extent people aging with I/DD are participating in home and community environments
  • identify barriers and supports of participation within and across environments
  • identify how existing environmental access guidelines can be improved
• Evaluate factors influencing access to & active participation in home and community environments & use of technologies
• Develop a web-based, consumer-directed, community environment assessment tool to identify best practice examples
• Inform the development of access-ready, age-friendly community environments and technologies