Recruiting People With Disabilities as Research Participants: Challenges and Strategies to Address Them.

The article focuses on challenges of surveying people with disabilities in surveys which includes these people in design and implementation of the research. Project Asking Consumers to Indicate Their Own Needs and Strengths was designed to enable researchers to gather information about the perceptions of people with a wide range of disabling conditions about their life. Author suggests that researchers should focus on identifying direct service staff who understand and value the research and can interpret the purpose of the study for people with disabilities, their families, and other staff members.