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Center for Research on Learning Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Working Healthy: Getting the Job Done
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 4. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2003-11)When the Ticket to Work/Work Incentives Improvement Act (TW-WIIA) was passed in 1999, Congress acknowledges that the potential loss of Medicaid and/or Medicare coverage for people with disabilities who attained or increased ... -
Working Healthy: The First Step is Work
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 5. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2004-03)Working Healthy, the Kansas Medicaid Buy-In program, allows people with disabilities to enter or increase employment and keep their Medicaid coverage. One of the first requirements to quality for Working Healthy is to have ... -
Policy Issues for Working Healthy and Other States' Medicaid Buy-Ins: The Good, the Bad, and What Remains to be Seen
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 6. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2004-11)Medicaid Buy-In programs are a work incentive initiative under both the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Ticket to Work/Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. They allow people with disabilities to work and get or ... -
Working Healthy & Medicare Part D: Findings From Participant Surveys
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 8. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2006-10)In February and March 2006, KU researchers developed and administered a telephone survey to assess the actual experiences of Working Healthy enrollees with Part D transition. The survey addressed information and access ... -
Will Medicaid Buy-In Participants Work and Earn More if Social Security Rules Change
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 9. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2007-08)Jensen and Silverstein (2005) reviewed federal actuarial estimates of potential increased earnings and program savings with a benefit offset and examined current employment and earnings trends among Social Security ... -
Kansans with Disabilities Speak Out about Employment Opportunities
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 10. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2008-03)In 2007, Kansas was awarded a Comprehensive Employment Systems grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to further understand and address barriers to employment for Kansans with disabilities. One ... -
The Kansas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Preventing or Forestalling Disability Among Participants in the Kansas High Risk Insurance Pool
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 11. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2008-12)Section 204 of TWWIIA authorized the development of another program targeted at disability prevention. Demonstrations to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIEs) provide health care coverage to working people iwth ... -
Working Healthy Participants: Earning More & Costing Less
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 12. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2009-03)This Policy Brief summarizes research findings about the earnings, taxes paid, and Medicaid expenditures of people enrolled in Working Healthy using recently published data (Kurth, Fall, & Hall, 2008). In a nutshell, ... -
Working Healthy Enrollees Report New and Persisting Challenges
(Working Healthy Policy Brief Number 13. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2010-09)Working Healthy participants are sent an annual satisfaction survey to evaluate their experiences with the program. Participants have consistently said that Working Healthy is a good program that allows them to work and ... -
Stuck in a Loop: Individual and System Barriers for Job Seekers with Disabilities
(The Career Development Quarterly, 2010-03)Research conducted within Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) and Workforce Investment Act of 1998 systems indicates pervasive issues hindering ... -
Unintended Consequences: The Potential Impact of Medicare Part D on Dual Eligibles with Disabilities in Medicaid Work Incentive Programs
(The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005-06)Common sense suggests that a safety net is required for situations in which enrollees are unable to obtain critical or life-sustaining medications. Such situations can arise when either the drug is not on formulary ... -
Transition to Medicare Part D: An Early Snapshot of Barriers Experienced by Younger Dual Eligibles With Disabilities
(American Journal of Managed Care, 2007-01)Transition to Medicare Part D affected not only 35.4 million elderly enrollees but also 6.4 million younger enrollees with disabilities, 2.5 million of whom have low incomes and previously obtained medications through ... -
Narrowing the Breach: Can Disability Culture and Full Educational Inclusion Be Reconciled?
(Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2002)Because of the long history of exclusion of people with disabilities, total inclusion in the educational environment has many outspoken proponents. People and organizations favoring inclusion, however, are overlooking the ... -
Medicaid’s expenditures for newer pharmacotherapies for adults with disabilities
(Health Care Financing Review, 2007)Medicaid's drug expenditures have grown at double-digit inflation rates since 2000. These prescription drug costs are important contributors to increasing health care costs for disabled persons. In spite of this knowledge, ... -
Any health care reform must allow continuation of robust Medicaid Buy-In programs for working people with disabilities
(Health & Disability Advocates, 2009-10-20)National health care reform must meet the unique health care needs of people with disabilities. However, obtaining health care coverage for a person with disabilities can be challenging in an employer-based health insurance ... -
Impact of current health care reform proposals on people with chronic illnesses
(Health & Disability Advocates, 2009-11-07)Outlines the most challenging issues facing people with special health care needs. There is a need for the Medicaid Infrastructure Grants and other grants to identify cost effective strategies for providing access to ... -
Historical Disability Outcomes of Enrollees in the Kansas High Risk Pool: A White Paper presented to CMS by the Kansas DMIE Project January, 2006
(University of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning, Division of Adult Studies, 2006-01)This white paper reports the historical rates of disability outcomes (e.g., transition to Social Security disability status) for people enrolled in Kansas' state high-risk health insurance pool. -
Reading practices among adult education participants
(International Reading Association, 2007-04)This study extends the literature on the relation between reading practices and individual characteristics of participants in adult education who have low literacy skills. Reading practices describe individuals' reading ... -
A path analysis of reading comprehension for adults with low literacy
(Sage Publications, 2010-04)Adult literacy interventions often rely on models of reading validated with children or adult populations with a broad range of reading. Such models do not fully satisfy the need for intervention research and development ... -
Reading profiles for adults with low-literacy: Cluster analysis with power and speeded measures
(Springer Netherlands, 2009)The United States’ National Institute for Literacy’s (NIFL) review of adult literacy instruction research recommended adult education (AE) programs assess underlying reading abilities in order to plan appropriate instruction ...