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Study Seeks Participants with Sensory and/or Mobility Impairments

If you have a sensory impairment and/or mobility impairment, you may be eligible to participate in a new research project.  This research aims to understand what people with sensory and/or mobility impairments do in their daily lives, how their environments affect their community participation, and what, if any, help they need to complete activities.

Eligibility requires that you:

• Are between the ages of 18 and 75
• Live in the community
• Have access to a computer
• Can read at or above the 6th grade level
• Can enter responses into a web-based survey or direct another individual to enter your responses into a web-based survey
  

AND

• Have either a mobility impairment, a visual impairment, or a hearing impairment.

If eligibility is established, you will receive a code to log on to the survey site and complete the study.  All information will be kept confidential and no connection between you and your survey answers will be made. Participants will be reimbursed by either a personal check or by a gift certificate to either Target or Walgreens, and may choose the method of reimbursement they prefer.  The web-based assessment contains a set of two surveys and will take approximately one hour to complete.

Please go to the following link and you will be directed to a short pre-survey to determine eligibility:
http://emc.wustl.edu/Nscr/Nscrlogn.htm.

This study is conducted by the Washington University Program in Occupational Therapy in collaboration with Paraquad, Inc.  The research is funded by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research at the US Department of Education.  ■

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