The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #61873

Wayne A. Gordon, PhD and Margaret Brown, PhD. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1240, New York, NY 10029, 212 659-9372, wayne.gordon@mssm.edu

In this presentation, Dr. Gordon, the project director of the RRTC, will present an overview of 10 years of PAR activities and how PAR became the keystone of this Center. The RRTC engages in research and dissemination of information on community integration of individuals with traumatic brain injury. The role of PAR will be discussed in terms of agenda setting, administration, engaging in community research, staffing of the RRTC, measurement, and dissemination of information about traumatic brain injury and of the results of RRTC research. He will also discuss benefits of PAR from the perspective of an outsider to disability. Subsequently, Dr. Brown, the director of dissemination of the RRTC – an insider to disability – will discuss PAR from an insider’s perspective.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the practical and political advantages of integrating PAR into rehabilitation research
• Understand methods and a diversity of approaches for integrating PAR into rehabilitation research

Keywords: Disability, Participatory Action Research