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Funding Opportunity Details
| Funder: | Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services/Department of Education | | Program: | Research Fellowships Program | | Amount: | $65,000 - $75,000 | | Deadline: | September 21, 2007 | | Link(s): | | Program URL
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan2007180
0/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-14179.htm
| | Summary: | | The sponsor will provide two types of fellowships (Distinguished and Merit) whose purposes are to build research capacity by providing support to enable highly qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, to perform research on the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities. |
Details: | Fellows must conduct research in an area authorized by section 204 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act). Section 204 authorizes research designed to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family, support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities,
and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Act.
Eligible individuals must have training and experience that indicate a potential for engaging in scientific research related to the solution of rehabilitation problems of individuals with disabilities. To be eligible for a Distinguished Fellowship, an individual must have seven or more years of research experience in subject areas, methods, or techniques relevant to rehabilitation research and must have a doctorate, other terminal degree, or comparable academic qualifications. To be eligible for a Merit Fellowship, an individual must have either advanced professional training or independent study experience in an area that is directly pertinent to disability and rehabilitation. In the most recent competitions, Merit Fellowship recipients had research experience at the doctoral level |
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