Division of Adult Studies (DAS): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
What providers and Medicaid policymakers need to know about barriers to employment for people with disabilities
(Haworth Press, 2004)Medicaid Buy-Ins provide a new and exciting opportunity for people with disabilities to engage in meaningful employment while maintaining Medicaid coverage. Through interviews with participants in the Kansas Medicaid Buy-In, ... -
Strategies for transition to postsecondary educational settings
(Love Publishing Company, 2005-05)The article focuses on the transition of students with learning disabilities (LDs) from high school to postsecondary education. The process of a student's transition from high school is described. Social, psychological, ... -
Alternative models of learning disabilities identification: considerations and initial conclusions
(PRO-ED, 2005)The final session of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Symposium, “What are alternative models to LD identification other than RTI?” included four papers ... -
Feasibility of Explicit Instruction in Adult Basic Education: Instructor-Learner Interaction Patterns
(Commission on Adult Basic Education, 2006)A strategic instruction model introduced into adult basic education classrooms yields insight into the feasibility of using direct and explicit instruction with adults with learning disabilities or other cognitive barriers ... -
Adult learning disabilities screening using an internet-administered instrument
(Learning Disabilities Worldwide, 2005-09)The article validates an Internet-administered version of Adult Learning Disabilities Screening (ALDS), e-ALDS, by comparing 122 adult education participants who completed the ALDS in paper-and-pencil vs. Internet formats. ...