Kerry Isham Field Services Representative Phone: 502-899-2298 Contact for presentations on APH products, product exhibitions, and training events, product videos, and other training materials. Artina Paris-Jones Administrative Clerk, Field Services Phone: 502-899-2368 Contact to order APH catalogs and product brochures. Mary Robinson Administrative Field Services Phone: 502-899-2280 Contact regarding new product submission forms, information, and assistance. Monica Turner Field Services Representative/Product Process Liaison 502-899-2291 Contact for presentations on APH products, product exhibits and training events; contact with suggestions for new products. Research The Research Department is primarily a research and development (R&D) function for APH. After product ideas are submitted, Project Leaders conduct the preliminary background review of the product idea, provide the information to the Product Evaluation Team (PET) and the Product Advisory and Research Committee (PARC), and if approved by PARC, commence development activities, including field studies and/or expert reviews. The Project Leader has a variety of available resources, including staff from Technical Research, Research Assistants, and outside consultants. There are twelve primary areas of research: adult life, assessment, braille, core curriculum, cortical visual impairment, emergent literacy, early childhood, low vision, multiple disabilities, STEM, tactile graphics, and technology. The Research Department section of the APH website contains information relating to ongoing research, requests for field study sites, surveys, software updates, APH Demo Download Center, links to scholarly work, and guidelines for large print and tactile graphics. Research Staff: Educational Product Research (Director, then alphabetically):
Kerry Isham Field Services Representative Phone: 502-899-2298 Contact for presentations on APH products, product exhibitions, and training events, product videos, and other training materials. Artina Paris-Jones Administrative Clerk, Field Services Phone: 502-899-2368 Contact to order APH catalogs and product brochures. Mary Robinson Administrative Field Services Phone: 502-899-2280 Contact regarding new product submission forms, information, and assistance. Monica Turner Field Services Representative/Product Process Liaison 502-899-2291 Contact for presentations on APH products, product exhibits and training events; contact with suggestions for new products. Research The Research Department is primarily a research and development (R&D) function for APH. After product ideas are submitted, Project Leaders conduct the preliminary background review of the product idea, provide the information to the Product Evaluation Team (PET) and the Product Advisory and Research Committee (PARC), and if approved by PARC, commence development activities, including field studies and/or expert reviews. The Project Leader has a variety of available resources, including staff from Technical Research, Research Assistants, and outside consultants. There are twelve primary areas of research: adult life, assessment, braille, core curriculum, cortical visual impairment, emergent literacy, early childhood, low vision, multiple disabilities, STEM, tactile graphics, and technology. The Research Department section of the APH website contains information relating to ongoing research, requests for field study sites, surveys, software updates, APH Demo Download Center, links to scholarly work, and guidelines for large print and tactile graphics. Research Staff: Educational Product Research (Director, then alphabetically):
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