1. David Braddock is professor of human development and director of the Institute on Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of more than 150 publications on public policy toward disability, health promotion and disease prevention, community integration, and related topics. Braddock is a past president of the American Association on Mental Retardation. He received his Ph.D. in special education from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate...
2. Richard Hemp served first as policy analyst (1984) and then as project director (1986, 1990, 1995, 1996) for all five successive National Studies of Public Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Spending. He directed research projects under collaborative research and training center projects with Syracuse University and the University of Minnesota and is author and coauthor of several publications on accreditation and public financing of developmental disabilities services. Hemp received his...