__A. EVALUATORS. The evaluation includes people with disabilities as evaluators: as members of advisers/planner committee/panels on evaluation, as reactors to evaluation findings, and in active roles in making recommendations based on evaluation and research findings.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__B. EVALUATION OF PROGRAM AND SERVICE. There is evaluation of the agency's programs and services in terms of:

__ACCESS. Success in the elimination of attitudinal, architectural, and transportation barriers (for each disease condition or disability group).
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__ADAPTATION. Success/effectiveness of adaptations, modifications, and accommodations of play and recreation activates and areas, building, equipment and facilities.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__COMPETENCE. The competence/effectiveness of recreation director, supervisors, leaders, assistants, drivers, instructors, support personnel, volunteers, students, student interns.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__DEVELOPMENT. The success of recreation agency development in terms of innovation, initiation, expansion, and improvement of programs, services, and funding for people with disabilities.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__QUALITY. The quality of recreation experience (participant ratings of programs, services, and specific recreation activities, areas, equipment, buildings, facilities, schedules, operations, etc.).
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__QUANTITY. The number of participants able to participate versus the number who need participation (longitudinal data/numbers on participants/non-participants and traits of traits of each, year by year data/numbers).
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__POLICIES. The success or failure of the agency's policy making and practices in achieving goals in relation to people with disabilities,
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__C. EVALUATION OF BENEFITS TO PARTICIPANTS. The recreation agency evaluates:

__BENEFITS. The educational, emotional, personal, physical, recreational, social, and vocational benefits of recreation participation to participants with disabilities.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__RELATIONSHIPS. The positive (or negative) effect of recreation participation by people with disabilities on their relationships with family, friends, neighbors and community members, medical staff (treatment, care, rehabilitation), teachers and counselors, and recreation workers and social workers).
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__D. EVALUATION OF EDUCATION AND ADVISING. The recreation agency evaluates the effectiveness of its recreation education and recreation advising/counseling for its participants with disabilities.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

__E. CONDUCTS RESEARCH. The recreation agency research includes the conduct of, contribution to, or participation in research including:

ACTION, demonstration, and innovation research on:
__New activities and new programs.
__New methods used by leaders, teachers, etc.
__New administration policies, procedures, fiscal policies, and personnel management.
__New agencies, groups, organizations, and services.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

CASE STUDY research on the ameliorative, curative, functional enhancement, healing, and/or therapeutic benefits of recreation relative to the following variables:
__Activities in relation to personal benefits: affective, cognitive, emotional, physical, social , functional gain, and settlement.
__Program design in relation to individual and group benefits, and functional and social benefits.
__Methods used by coaches, instructors, and leaders in relation to the results achieved in participation, benefits, and other gains.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

DESCRIPTIVE and HISTORICAL research on the status of:
__Survey of recreation activities, programs, and services in institutions and the community: levels of service and participation and impact over time; of unmet needs; of trends and patterns in delivery and participation; and evolution of recreation in meeting the needs of people with disabilities.
__Recreation's role and function in the lives of disabilities who are segregated, marginalized, out of work, low income, etc.
__History and development of recreation service, participation, and results in the community at large, etc., for a disease or disability groups by age level, gender, socio-economic status, and cultural/ethnic background.
STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

EXPERIMENTAL research on the impact of 25 different adapted, special, and/or therapeutic activity/recreation pursuits and leader methods on the recovery, rehabilitation, resettlement, education, employment, and community recreations of people with disabilities.
__STATUS: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5 PRIORITY: __1 __2 __3 __4 __5

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GLOBAL VISION PROJECT:
Global Vision of Rehabilitation and Recreation
for People with Disabilities in the 21st Century
A JOINT PROJECT BY:
Disability International Foundation AND
Special Recreation for disABLED International

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