FY22 Annual Report: RESEARCH

Digging Into Diversity & Equity

In FY 2022, we researched how diversity and equity affect Vermonters with disabilities.

• Jesse Suter examined racial disparities in COVID-19 effects.
• Amy Wheeler-Sutton reported to the Vermont legislature on how proposed laws would impact equitable and inclusive school environments.
• Valerie Wood presented findings from a study on Vermont early childhood expulsion and suspension at the AUCD national conference.

Additionally, we shared our research at regional, state, and national conferences.

Sharing Research Summaries

One of our ongoing goals is to summarize and highlight research with important impacts on disability advocacy. In FY 2022, we published five research summaries, in plain text, illustrated text, audio, and ASL-interpreted formats.

FY22 RESEARCH SUMMARIES

1. The PIES Study (CDCI Research)
2. Developing concepts with children and adults who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind (Recommended Research)
3. Autism-specific parenting self-efficacy: an examination of the role of parent-reported intervention involvement, satisfaction with intervention-related training, and caregiver burden (Recommended Research)
4. The role of parental self-efficacy in parent and child well-being: A systematic review of associated outcomes (Recommended Research)
5. Exploring young children’s activity and participation change following 6 months’ power mobility experience(Recommended Research)

Getting Grant Funding

This year, we received four new research grants:

• COVID-19 Vaccine Access
• Project SCOPE-VT: Supporting Children of the Opioid Epidemic in Vermont
• The CDCI CARES Team: Communication, Access, Rearch and Equipment Support for the d/Deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind community, and
• Public Health Workforce Funding.

The Vermonter Poll

We also added questions on disability to The Vermonter Poll, an annual survey of attitudes across Vermont.

Sharing Research in Multiple Formats

This year, Academics Coordinator Dr. Valerie Wood worked on sharing CDCI research in different formats. Dr. Wood took the CDCI study on Promoting Inclusion and Exploring Supports for Children with Specialized Needs in Early Education, and produced:

• a comprehensive webpage,
• a research poster (.pdf)
• a text document (.pdf),
• and a video where she explains the findings.

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PUBLICATIONS

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PRESENTATIONS

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RESEARCH SUMMARIES

Valerie F. Wood, PhD,
Research Coordinator