
Spotlight
By National Rehabilitation Information Center

SpotlightJul 15, 2022

What is Caregiving?
In Episode 11 of our podcast, Mark Odum, NARIC's Director, and Catherine Graves, NARIC's Media Specialist, discuss caregiving. They discuss the different types of caregivers, provide examples, share their personal stories related to caregiving, how the COVID-19 pandemic affected caregivers, and NIDILRR-funded research related to caregiving and COVID-19; among other caregiving-related topics.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Family Caregiver Alliance: www.caregiver.org.
- National Alliance for Caregiving: www.caregiving.org.
- Caregiver Action Network: www.caregiveraction.org.
- Care.com: care.com.
- NARIC: naric.com.
- NARIC's chat: Ask Me! | National Rehabilitation Information Center (naric.com).

Enfoque De Investigación: ¿Qué es?
En este episodio del Spotlight Podcast de NARIC, Marta Arnold, revisora de NARIC, habla con Marta Garcia, Especialista en Información Bilingüe de NARIC, sobre la serie Enfoque De Investigación de NARIC - una serie de artículos que está disponible en inglés (https://www.naric.com/?q=en/rif) y español (https://naric.com/?q=es/rif_es). Discuten qué es la serie, de dónde provienen los artículos de investigación, dónde los oyentes pueden encontrar artículos completos en la serie y la serie Research In Brief en el blog Spotlight de NARIC.
Para obtener más información sobre el Instituto Nacional de Investigación sobre Discapacidad, Vida Independiente y Rehabilitación (NIDILRR), visite https://acl.gov/about-acl/about-national-institute-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation- investigación.
Para hacer sugerencias para episodios futuros, comuníquese con NARIC a través del chat, envíe un correo electrónico a naricinfo@heitechservices.com o llame al 800/346-2742.

Research In Focus: What is It?
During this episode of NARIC's Spotlight Podcast, Marta Garcia speaks with Jessica Chaiken and Hafsa Abdirahman about NARIC's Research In Focus series, which is available in English (https://www.naric.com/?q=en/rif) and Spanish (https://naric.com/?q=es/rif_es). They discuss what the series is, where the research articles come from, Hafsa's writing process, where listeners may find completed articles in the series, and the Research In Brief series in NARIC's Spotlight blog.
To learn more about the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), please visit https://acl.gov/about-acl/about-national-institute-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research.
To make suggestions for future episodes, please contact NARIC via chat, email at naricinfo@heitechservices.com, or by calling 800/346-2742. Don't forget to take our poll!

¿Qué es la terapia recreativa?
En el primer episodio de la segunda temporada del podcast Spotlight de NARIC, Marta Arnold, revisora en español de NARIC, habla con Marta Garcia, especialista bilingüe en información y medios de comunicación de NARIC, sobre la terapia recreativa, sus beneficios, algunas intervenciones utilizadas en este tipo de terapia, y más. También hablan sobre algunos recursos que los oyentes de este episodio pueden utilizar para obtener más información sobre la terapia recreativa:
1. Preguntar a un Bibliotecario: https://naric.com/?q=en/FAQ.
2. ¿Es terapéutico el bingo? https://naric.com/?q=es/FAQ/%C2%BFes-terap%C3%A9utico-el-bingo.
3. Consejo Nacional para la Certificación en Terapia Recreativa: https://www.nctrc.org/.
4. Asociación Estadounidense de la Recreación Terapeutica: https://www.atra-online.com/page/Aboutus.
5. Publicaciones sobre la terapia recreativa en el blog, Spotlight, de NARIC: https://naricspotlight.wordpress.com/?s=recreaci%C3%B3n+terapeutica.
6. Comuníquese con los especialistas en información de NARIC: https://www.naric.com/?q=es/node/30.

Episode 7: El Transporte Accesible para Hispanohablantes con Discapacidades
En el episodio de hoy, el Especialista Bilingüe en Información y Medios de Comunicación de NARIC discute los productos para consumidores basados en la evidencia, relacionados con el transporte para personas con discapacidades, incluyendo los productos financiados por NIDILRR. Los productos discutidos en este episodio se encuentran a continuación después de la descripción en inglés.
In today’s episode, NARIC’s Bilingual Information and Media Specialist discusses evidence-based consumer products related to transportation for people with disabilities, including NIDILRR-funded products. The consumer products discussed in this episode appear below and go to Spanish-language resources, unless they are followed by (in English/en inglés):
- ¿Qué es el transporte accesible?
- Conducir después de una lesión de la médula espinal.
- Conducir después de una lesión cerebral traumática.
- The ADA Network Knowledge Translation Center (in English/en inglés) and the 10 ADA Regional Centers. Hojas informativas mencionadas en el episodio (Factsheets mentioned in the episode): Modificaciones razonables de política, práctica, y procedimiento en el transporte público y La ADA y el Transporte Terrestre Accesible.
- La serie Enfoque De Investigación de NARIC (NARIC's Research In Focus series). Los artículos incluidos en este episodio incluyen (The articles included in this episode are): El Transporte Independiente Puede Conducir a Más Oportunidades para Personas con Discapacidades y Para las Personas Ciegas o con Discapacidades Visuales, la Administración del Transporte Puede Ser Clave para el Éxito Laboral.
Comuníquese con el personal de NARIC a través de nuestro chat, correo electronico, o por teléfono. Contact NARIC's staff by chat, email, or telephone.

Episode 6: A Roundtable with NARIC's Information Specialists Team
In today's episode, Mark Odum, NARIC's Director, speaks with NARIC's information specialists team. They will share about being an information specialist, the great and hard aspects of calls/chats, their search or start methods in their toolboxes, and more.
The resources mentioned in this episode include:
1. NARIC's website naric.com, along with NARIC's databases: REHABDATA, NIDILRR's Program Database, and Knowledgebase.
2. NARIC's Ready Reference in English and Spanish.
3. The ERIC database, the ERIC database, and the PEDro database.
4. The information specialists also share about contacting local independent living centers.
5. The National Library of Medicine and its searchable database PubMed.
6. For local resources, 211.
7. The Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS).
8. The Eldercare Locator.
10. Benefits.gov.
11. The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).
To learn more about what NARIC's information specialists do and how they may help you, please contact them by email at naricinfo@heitechservices.com, by chat, or by calling 800/346-2742.
Transcripts of this episode are available on our website.

Episode 5: ¿Qué es News and Notes?
Este mes, hablamos con Marta Garcia, CRS, especialista bilingüe en información y redes sociales de NARIC. Marta comparte información sobre el boletín semanal de NARIC: News and Notes from the NIDILRR Community and Beyond (Noticias y Notas de la Comunidad de NIDILRR y de Más Allá). Para matricularse a recibir este boletín o para obtener más información, visite naric.com. Si desea enviar elementos para el boletín, envie un correo electrónico a NARICInfo@heiteschservices.com.
This month, we speak with Marta Garcia, CRS, NARIC's bilingual information and media specialist. Marta shares information about NARIC's weekly newsletter, News and Notes from the NIDILRR Community and Beyond. To receive NARIC's newsletter, visit naric.com. If you would like to share possible content for News and Notes, send a detailed email to NARICInfo@heitechservices.com.

Episode 4: What is in NARIC's Collection? A discussion with NARIC's Library and Acquisitions Manager
In this month's episode, we speak to Natalie Collier, NARIC's Library and Acquisitions Manager about NARIC's collection, the REHABDATA database, and more.
To visit the pages that Ms. Collier mentions:
Are you a NIDILRR Grantee or researcher from the disability and rehabilitation research community and would like to have your publications considered for the NARIC Collection? Please contact Natalie Collier via email at ncollier@heitechservices.com.
To learn more about NARIC's collection, visit naric.com or contact NARIC's information specialists via our chat or email (NARICInfo@heitechservices.com) or by calling 800/346-2742.

Episodio 3: Qué es y qué hace NARIC?
En nuestro episodio inagural en español de NARIC's Spotlight, compartimos información sobre lo que es y lo que hace el Centro Nacional de Información de Rehabilitación (NARIC, por sus siglas en ingls).
Si necesita más información, visite nuestro sitio web https://naric.com/?q=es/paginaprincipal. O, si tiene preguntas, envíe un correo electronico a naricinfo@heitechservices.com

Celebrating 10 years and 500 issues of News and Notes from the NIDILRR Community and Beyond!
Today's episode celebrates 10 years and 500 issues of NARIC's weekly newsletter, News and Notes from the NIDILRR Community and Beyond. In this newsletter, NARIC shares the latest news, research, resources, and opportunities to participate in research from the NIDILRR grantee community, and news from the disability and rehabilitation communities. Look for the blue box on our homepage, naric.com, to learn more, read old issues, and to sign up!

Who is the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)?
In NARIC's inaugural episode of their Spotlight podcast, NARIC staff introduce listeners to what NARIC does for people with disabilities, families, service providers, and researchers around the world.
To learn more about NARIC, visit naric.com/.
This podcast is a production of the National Rehabilitation Information Center, or NARIC. NARIC is operated by Blackfish Federal LLC and HeiTech Services, Inc., under a contract from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, contract #GS-06F-0726Z.