Faculty Across the U.S. Receive $600,000 Grant to Support Accessibility

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Roger Ideishi, Program Director and Professor, is partnering and a co-investigator with Drs. Caroline Umeda, Dominican University in California (principal investigator) and Liz Schmidt, Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee (co-investigator) on a three-year $600,000 federal grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDLIRR) to support arts organizations in improving their accessibility services for neurodivergent communities.

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