NIDRR Logic Model
This is a graphic description depicting the NIDRR Logic Model: Targeted Outcome Arenas as presented in the Notice of Proposed Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005 to 2009 from July 27, 2005.
The logic model includes seven main headings with information contained within each heading. This logic model reads as a continuum from Heading 1 to 7.
Heading 1: Situation.
Significant gaps exist in knowledge, skills, policy, and practice and system capacity that prevent people with disabilities from having equal access to opportunities for employment, health and function, and participation.
Heading 2: Short Term Outcome Arenas.
Advances In Understanding, Knowledge, Skills, and Learning Systems via: Capacity building, Research development, and Knowledge Translation and Technology Transfer. Within these Learning systems are Discoveries; Theories, Measures, and Methods; and Interventions, Products Devices, and Environment Adaptations
Heading 3: Intermediate Beneficiaries.
These include: Researchers, Clinicians, Service providers, Educators, Policy experts, Federal and nonfederal partners, Industry reps and product developers, Employers, Media, Consumer advocates, and Individuals with disabilities and family members.
Heading 4: Intermediate Outcome Arenas.
These include the adoption and use of new knowledge leading to changes or improvements, in: Policy, Practice, Behavior, and System Capacity.
Heading 5: Intended Beneficiaries.
These include individuals with disabilities and family members.
Heading 6: Long-term Outcome Arenas.
These include Changes in Overall Conditions. Long-term outcomes will eliminate disparities between people with disabilities and the general population in: employment, Participation and Community, and Living Health and Function.
Heading 7: Major Domains of NlDRR Mission.
The outer ring of the Logic Model includes two additional domains: technology for access and function and demographics of disability. Inside this ring contains the three major life domains NIDRR targets: Employment, Participation/Community Living, and Health and Function.
Beneath the seven headings are two additional components. The first is the Performance Assessment and Outcomes Evaluation section. The intensity of the assessment and evaluation efforts is proportional to the thickness of the arrows of the Logic Model, and is greatest for short-term outcomes, then intermediate outcomes, and finally long-term outcomes.
The final component of the NIDRR Logic Model as presented in the Notice of Proposed Long-Range Plan for Fiscal Years 2005 to 2009 from July 27, 2005 is Contextual Factors and it directly links to the Performance Assessment and Outcome Evaluation component. Contextual Factors includes: Variable funding; scientific and technological advancements; societal attitudes; economic conditions; changing public policies; coordination and cooperation with other government entities.
This image is a revised draft of the NIDRR Logic Model from March 5, 2005.
