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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The GW Doctor of Occupational Therapy program has received a full, seven-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences inaugurated its Bicentennial Faculty Lecture Series with a presentation by Roger Ideishi, JD, OT/L, FAOTA, program director of the occupational therapy program on October 24, 2024.
Drs. Roger Ideishi, Program Director and Professor, and Sarah Doerrer, Assistant Professor, are partnering with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / Access VSA on a five year $10 million federal grant from the Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services.