Jean Ann Summers is the Associate Director of the Beach Center on Disability and a Research Professor at the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas. She has more than 30 years of experience conducting research and developing intervention or professional development related to disability issues, including early childhood/early intervention, and family support and partnerships with families of children and adults with disabilities. She was a member of the research team at the Beach Center which developed the Family Quality of Life Scale in use in this project, as well as the Family Professional Partnerships Scale. She also has been involved as a team member on consortium research projects (for example, the Early Head Start Longitudinal Research Consortium) and as a qualitative researcher on mixed-design study teams. Her work on this grant has grown from a long association with Towson University, including participation in the initial Maryland surveys of Waiver and Registry families, which led to the development of this current research project. Dr. Summers will participate primarily in Study 2, including the qualitative study, the analysis and revision of the statewide survey for distribution in Phase 2 of Study 2, and in the interpretation of results and production of reports and manuscripts.
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