Research

Recent Research Projects

We will update some of the most recent research projects here. Please join us or contact us if there is any project that may interest you.
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Circle

Technology Related

Focus on exploring how technology can impact the life of an individuals with disabilities
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Rhombus

Professional Counselor Development

Focus on preparing future practitioners how to more effectively serve people with disabilitiess
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Technology Related Projects

Avail Job Coaching App

The software has been developed for the needs of job coaches. The project is to establish the feasibility and efficacy of the app.

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Our Objectives

  1. Ease of use by clients and job coaches.
  2. The time that a client needs to master the task.
  3. How often the client uses the app?
  4. The ease of use on the app for transitioning between tasks.
  5. The extent of how effective it is for the app to assist the client on the job.
  6. Lasting effect post implementation.

Mixed Reality PreEmployment

A utilization of the mixed reality to train people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

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Our Objectives

  1. Feasibility of the mixed reality for the population of IDD and ASD.
  2. The satisfaction level of users with IDD and ASD.
  3. How effective is it to promote employment related self-efficacy
  4. Does the mixed reality implementation help with interview skill learning?
  5. Lasting effect post implementation.

Professional Counselor Development

Implicit & Explicit Biases

We need to fully understand how biases and stereotypes operate before we can really control or amend them.

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Our Objectives

  1. Explore the association between explicit and implicit biases.
  2. Validate the instrument measuring the implicit biases.
  3. Explore strategies that can be used to control implicit biases.
  4. Develop instruments for measuring explicit biases.
  5. Ultimately, create an instrument that can be used to determine counselor's professional disposition.

Counselors' AT Perception

In this project, we focus on testing how rehabilitation counselors are prepared for providing assistive technology services.

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Our Objectives

  1. How important does the rehabilitation counselor think to be prepared to provide AT services?
  2. Whether rehabilitation counselor feel prepared to provide AT services?
  3. Is there a difference between public and private services in relation to AT importance?
  4. What can we do to improve counselors' preparedness in AT services?

Assistive Technology Database

In this project, we aim to build a real database that can be beneficial to anyone who wants to use an AT device. Particularly, a video based database will be built.

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Our Objectives

  1. Identify categories of AT devices
  2. Create a list of AT devices and put them into categories.
  3. Create a website with a database function.
  4. Video AT device demonstrations.