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Publications: Fact Sheets, Infographics, Booklets, Etc.

These publications are all posted in PDF format. For alternate formats, please contact us at rtcil@ku.edu.

- Out and About: Laws That Protect People with Disabilities

- Usable Housing

- Community Living and Participation Research

- Health Care for People with Disabilities

- ADA Accommodations Training

- Weight Loss

- Emergency Preparedness

- Kansas Disability Data

Out and About: Laws That Protect People with Disabilities

These fact sheets provide information about U.S. laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities. RTC researchers and staff created them as resources for participants in our "Out and About" intervention, which is part of the Research and Training Center on Promoting Interventions for Community Living (RTC/PICL). One additional fact sheet focuses on finding social support for community participation, and another discusses resources for air travel and interacting with the Transportation Security Administration.

Usable Housing

Our project partners in Montana have produced several research briefs related to the RTC/PICL usable housing study:

This project builds upon research about Home Usability for People with Disabilities that wascompleted in our previous center, the RTC on Community Living :

Community Living and Participation Research

We list below the findings from each research intervention included in the Research and Training Center (RTC) on Community Living and the RTC on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living, in addition to other products from both centers.

- Research Center Takes New Approach to Knowledge Translation: Building Bridges from Research to Policy and Practice (PDF) - This report describes a Bridging Meeting held by the RTC on Community Living in 2013.

- Developing a Health Promotion Assistance Tool (HAIL)

- Development and Testing of an Informal PA Training Program

- Home Usability for People with Disabilities

- Community Engagement Initiative Knowledge Translation (KT) Project

- Building Capacity for Full Community Participation

- Multiple Chronic Health Conditions (Analysis of Secondary Data)

  • Infographic: Multiple Chronic Conditions Among People with Disabilities
  • Fact sheet: Multiple Chronic Conditions Among People with Disabilities
  • Poster: Multiple Chronic Conditions and Health Disparities among People with Disabilities Compared to People without Disabilities

- Parking Equity

  • Brochure: Accessible Parking Etiquette: Honor the Aisles!
  • Fact Sheet: Encouraging Reservation of Van-Designated Spaces for Lift- or Ramp-Equipped Van Users
  • Fact Sheet: Deterring Access Aisle Parking Violations

- Does VR Effectively Support Community Living? (Analysis of Secondary Data)

- Tools to Identify and Measure Disability Population Segments

  • Poster: What We Can Learn about Individuals with IDD from Medicaid Claims Data
  • Fact Sheet: Ways to Improve Health and Reduce Costs for Adults with Physical Disabilities or Cognitive Limitations
  • Poster: A Model Assessment for Surveillance of Disease Prevalence and Monitoring Cost Utility and Health Outcomes of Individuals with Physical Disabilities Served by HCBS Waivers
  • Fact Sheet: Preventive Screening Improvements Needed for People with Physical Disabilities
  • Poster: Preventive Screening and Preventive Health Care Utilization Patterns of Individuals with Disabilities Supported by Home and Community Based Waiver Services in Kansas
  • Fact Sheet: Comparing Diabetes Rates among Adults with Cognitive Limitations to Adults with No Disabilities in the U.S.
  • Poster: Diabetes among Adults with Cognitive Limitations Compared to Individuals with No Disabilities in the United States
  • Fact Sheet: The Intersection of Disability and Chronic Disease

- HCBS Waiver: Economic Utility and Related Health Outcomes

  • Fact Sheet: HCBS Waiver: Does It Contain Costs and Improve Health Outcomes?
  • Resource Guide: Cancer Prevention for People with Disabilities

- Consumer Training for Employing Personal Assistants

  • Fact Sheet: Using Consumer Training to Enhance Community Participation

- The Effect of CIL Services on Community Participation

  • Fact Sheet: Which Center for Independent Living Services Improve Community Participation?
  • Fact Sheet: CIL Services that Improve Community Participation: Comparing the U.S., Japan and South Korea

- Measurement Systems of Person x Environment Interactions

  • Fact Sheet: New Measures for Assessing Community Participation

Health Care for People with Disabilities

ADA Accommodations Training

Poster: The Accommodations Model: A new tool for empowering students to request reasonable accommodations

Weight Loss

Poster: Weight Loss Intervention for Adults with Physical Disabilities

Emergency Preparedness

Poster: Best Practices to Level the Playing Field for People with Disabilities in Disasters

Kansas Disability Data

Data Inventory on the Employment and Health of Kansans with Disabilities - This tool was developed to assist researchers who use Medicaid and disability data.


Kansas Department of Health and Environment COVID information for people with chronic disease. (Link to PDF). https://t.co/5MnfBoKJ7n


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