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John H. Hager, assistant secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), and Steven J. Tingus, director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), would like to share with you the NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005–09: Executive Summary. The NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005–09: Executive Summary is a concise synopsis of the full NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005–09. The full plan guides the work of NIDRR, the federal government’s key agency for disability and rehabilitation research. It includes highlights of past NIDRR research, assesses emerging needs and sets new directions for the future. The Executive Summary includes the NIDRR Logic Model and future research priorities in the domains of employment, participation and community living, health and function, technology for access and function, and disability demographics. Also included are discussions of the three strategies NIDRR uses for realizing its strategic goals: research, knowledge translation and capacity building. An important feature is a new plan for management improvements, including: fixed schedules for announcing competitions and making awards; a description of the annual priority-setting process; performance assessment of programs and projects; continuous planning using environmental scans and performance results; and validation of knowledge generated by NIDRR projects. For the Executive Summary in PDF format click here. The Executive Summary and the full NIDRR Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005-09 can also be accessed on NIDRR's homepage. Sincerely, John H. Hager
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