The mission of the RERC for Wirless Inclusive Technologies is to integrate emerging wirelessly connected devices, sensors and services with established wireless technologies for a transformative future where individuals with disabilities achieve independence, improved quality of life, and enhanced community participation.

This project at Pennsylvania State University conducts rigorous evidence-based research for designing effective augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies and interventions, develops and evaluates innovative AAC engineering solutions driven by consumer needs, and provides comprehensive training and dissemination to ensure that all individuals, including those with severe disabilities, have access to effective AAC to enhance the communication of individuals with complex communication needs (CCN).

This mission of Gallaudet University’s RERC is to provide consumers who are hard of hearing or Deaf, as well as their families and clinicians, with the knowledge and tools necessary: (1) to take control of their communication and hearing technologies, adapt those technologies to their needs in real-world environments, and achieve greater autonomy in their technology use; and (2) to derive full benefit of the shift from special-purpose devices to increasingly powerful and interconnected consumer electronics.

This rehabilitation engineering research center (RERC-DC) at Catholic University of America promotes rehabilitation engineering-based devices, strategies, techniques, and interventions that can facilitate activity and mobility following neurologic injuries, specifically home-based technologies for treating motor impairments.

Carnegie Mellon University’s RERC on Physical Access and Transportation empowers consumers, manufacturers, and service providers in the design and evaluation of accessible transportation equipment, information services, and physical environments. Project activities build upon previous work to focus on enabling technology and universal design to support independent and efficient multi-modal travel in daily life, including its significant role in employment and social participation.

The Georgia Tech Research Corporation’s RERC TechSAge II conducts programs of advanced rehabilitation engineering and technical research and development (R&D) to increase knowledge about, availability of, and access to effective, universally-designed technologies that enable people to sustain independence, maintain health, safely engage in basic activities of daily living at home and the community, and participate in society as they age with disability.

The RERC TechSAge at Georgia Tech Research Corporation conducts programs of advanced rehabilitation engineering and technical research and development (R&D) to increase knowledge about, availability of, and access to effective, universally-designed technologies that enable people to sustain independence, maintain health, safely engage in basic activities of daily living at home and the community, and participate in society as they age with disability.

This project at University of Michigan develops and evaluates innovative rehabilitation strategies, techniques, and interventions to enhance health, participation, and employment outcomes among adolescents and young adults with physical, cognitive, and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab together with its partners, Northwestern University (NU), Emory University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Ekso Bionics design and implement a program of research and development centered on establishing a rational basis for quantifying the appropriate time distribution for use of robotic and computer-based interventions in rehabilitation therapy. The center also investigates how therapists interact with robotic devices when delivering therapy.

The State University of New York’s RERC on Universal Design and the Built Environment uses a Knowledge-To-Action Model to advance accessibility and universal design (UD) in the four domains of the built environment: (1) housing, (2) commercial and public buildings, (3) community infrastructure, and (4) transportation.