 The overarching objective of this
RERC is to optimize participation through technology (OPTT). OPTT-RERC will enhance the lives of individuals aging
with and into disability through:
- development and delivery of
cutting-edge technologies for identification, evaluation, and
rehabilitation of the motor processes that facilitate or impede functional performance,
employment, and community participation for the intended beneficiaries,
- employment of state of the art data management, dissemination, and
performance evaluation techniques to ensure that the knowledge and
products emergent from the RERC are accessible for all intended beneficiaries,
- assembly of a multidisciplinary team of experts in clinical
rehabilitation, engineering, gerontology, along with a select group of technology
partners, and disability advocates to ensure that OPTT-RERC's short and long-term
outcome goals are successfully implemented and,
- alignment of the clinical and technological strengths of several area programs into an integrated
infrastructure to provide training opportunities for future rehabilitation researchers.
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