Associated Faculty

John Kosciulek, Ph.D.

Professor | Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research interests

  • Family adaptation to disability
  • Consumer-direction in rehabilitation service delivery and policy development
  • Brain injury rehabilitation
  • Research ethics
  • Career development of people with disabilities
  • Rehabilitation counseling theory development
  • Bioethics and disability

Laura Rice, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor | Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research interests

  • Improving quality of life and community participation among people with disabilities
  • Outcome measure development

Michele Schutz, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Special Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research interests

  • Career development and transition services for youth with disabilities
  • Professional roles and interagency collaborations in transition
  • Publicly engaged research
  • Rural school communities
  • Competitive integrated employment

David Strauser, Ph.D.

Professor | Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research interests

  • Interaction between physical and psychological functioning on the career development process and labor market participation of young adults
  • Examining the impact of contextual factors such as poverty, employer perspectives, family, and the labor market on the overall employment and labor market participation of people with chronic health conditions