TRI Work Focus Examples

The TRI-Eugene staff work with children, families and adults as well as personnel in hospitals, schools and social service agencies to identify and provide innovative services to individuals with traumatic brain injuries. This work includes follow up research on individuals as they progress from the hospital to school and community life. The projects incorporate qualitative and quantitative research to learn more about this growing population.
Contacts: Dr. Ann Glang and Dr. Bonnie Todis, TRI-Eugene Office.

Provides comprehensive assessment services to individuals ages 3 through adulthood who may have learning problems. Services include diagnostic assessments, in-service training, multicultural assessments and workshops on transition and vocational assessments.
Contact: Prof. Ken Kosko

The National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind (NTAC) and DB-LINK, the national clearinghouse and information center on deaf-blindness, combine the resources, expertise and experience of the Teaching Research Institute, the Helen Keller National Center in New York and the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts to provide technical assistance to families, service providers and agencies serving children and young adults (birth through 21) who are deaf-blind. Services include an array of national technical assistance and training activities to all states, national information dissemination activities and a national census database.
Contacts: Prof. Kat Stremel, Prof. John Killoran and Dr. John Reiman.

Grants and contracts provide support, technical assistance, model development, program evaluation and scholarship programs to teacher preparation programs and to K-12 schools. Projects and studies are being conducted in the areas of teacher effectiveness, national board certification, recruitment and mentoring of special education teachers and family-school linkages.
Contacts: Dr. Bonnie Morihara, Dr. Dianne Ferguson, Dr. Robert Ayres and Prof. Mark Schalock.

The early childhood projects are designed to improve the quality of education for young children through research as well as the development and demonstration of innovative models. Staff work with Head Start and early childhood education programs in Oregon and Washington. They have developed family-centered models that include identification and intervention for young children with language delays and with emotional/behavioral problems.
Contacts: Prof. Pam Deardorff and Prof. Tom Udell.