Biography of Ronald B. House

Dr. Ronald B. House, is presently the CEO, Executive Vice President of the American Disabilities Institute for Research and Training, Inc. He first became involved with Independent Living Movement in 1980, when he worked with Lex Frieden, ILRU of Houston, Texas to develop a management training simulation for CILs. House has developed several management simulations, and has published research and management articles on the management of human service organizations.

During the period of 2000 to 2005 he was co-principal investigator of the National Research and Rehabilitation Training Center- Independent Living Management Project funded by NIDRR. His primary responsibilities were to design, develop and test strategies to enable CILs to benefit from management models of other successful community-based organizations. The research project was a five-year study. In addition, House oversaw the implementation of training courses and the dissemination of learning materials to CILs and SILCs through distance learning, regional and national conferences.

Dr. House has a doctoral degree from Cornell University and thirty years managing federal funded national and regional training projects at Cornell in Independent Living, Supported Employment, Community Rehabilitation and Technical Assistance. While at Cornell University he was on the faculty of the NYS School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the College of Human Ecology retiring in 1996 after thirty years at Cornell.

In 1997 he co-authored a five-year grant on training for Community Rehabilitation Programs at the University of Buffalo. In 1999 he teamed up with the faculty of the University of Buffalo and the director of the Western New York Independent Living Center to compete for the first CIL consumer directed Research and Training Center. The competition for the grant was successful and the coalition established the RR & TC in 2000.

Dr. House has been involved in providing training and continuing education since his employment at Cornell University from 1968 to the present. He has been and continues to be the director or co-director of several national rehabilitation service grants. Dr. House has conducted international training courses in Canada and Europe and serves on state and federal advisory boards on disability policy.

 
 

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