Mental Retardation Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits (2002) / Chapter Skim
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He has served as an expert witness in various school-related court cases for the state of Iowa for over a decade. He was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Goals 2000 and the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities and currently serves on the Committee on Representation of Minority Children in Special Education and Gifted Programs.
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Her longitudinal research on families of children and young adults with severe disabilities spans 19 years and is funded by the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. She has served as consulting editor for the American Journal on Mental Retardation and Mental Retardation and is frequently asked to appear as an expert in cases involving right to education or placement for children with autism, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities.
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. Previously he was associate superintendent for the Chicago Public Schools, where he was responsible for special education services and student support services; he implemented major changes in the special education service delivery system.
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Her research interests include families of children with mental retardation, the special needs of mothers with developmental disabilities, and rural family support for people with disabilities. She has published extensively in the area of culturally diverse families and developmental disabilities and has been the principal investigator on a number of federally funded studies on mental retardation and minority families facing challenging life circumstances.
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He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship to Oxford, England, where he worked with a health services evaluation group. He has also served as a visiting scholar at a number of American universities studying the economics of health care and aging.
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He has published numerous articles and books in the areas of judgment and decision making behavior, expert decision making, and the evaluation of psychological measurement and model testing techniques. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Transportation, and the National Institutes of Health for his research related to judgment theory and decision analysis.
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He has received numerous awards and honors for his research and teaching activities in the area of developmental psychology and has published numerous refereed articles and book chapters. He has served on the editorial board of numerous journals on mental retardation, psychological measurement, and statistical methods, including Psychological Methods and the American Journal on Mental Retardation.
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