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"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is
progress, and working together is success." -- Henry Ford
On behalf of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology
Transfer (T2RERC) I would like to acknowledge and thank a number of people
and organizations who are helping to make the Project on Communication
Enhancement a success.
First, I want to thank our sponsor, the National Institute on Disability
and Rehabilitation Research of the U.S. Department of Education. Without
their support, this valuable research would not have been possible.
I would like to thank the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC), Southeast
Region and its director, Ed Linsenmeyer, for co-sponsoring this project.
We hope that the Southeast FLC will be an important source for technology
solutions that address the needs and opportunities identified during the
Stakeholder Forum.
Special thanks to our partner and host RERC, the Rehabilitation Engineering
Research Center on Communication Enhancement (AAC-RERC) (also funded by
NIDRR). In particular, Dr. Frank DeRuyter, Dr. Jeffrey Higginbotham and
Mr. Kevin Caves deserve recognition for their guidance and input to this
project, as well as the students from the University at Buffalo for their
note-taking and logistical support at the Stakeholder Forum.
Of course without the participation of many consumers, clinicians, researchers,
businesses and government, the Forum and overall Project could not be
successful. Thank you to everyone who participated in our initial telephone
interviews, panels and the Forum itself.
I would like to thank our partners from the Western New York Independent
Living Center for bringing the consumer's perspective to this Project.
Finally, I would like to thank my staff at the T2RERC whose hard work,
team effort, patience and humor have sustained this Project from the very
beginning.
Sincerely,
Dr. Stephen Bauer
Demand-Pull Project Director &
Co-Director of the T2RERC
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