Sheryl A. Larson, Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator and Research Manager 3 at the University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration (ICI) where she has worked since 1988. Sherri directs the national Residential Information Systems Project, studies in the Research and Training Center on Community Living, and other sponsored research focusing on long-term supports and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She has had 51 federal, state, and local grant-funded research, training, or technical assistance projects focused on people with severe disabilities including intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Dr. Larson has authored or co-authored 3 books, 33 book chapters, 48 peer-reviewed journal articles, and more than 100 technical reports and other products. She made more than 250 presentations at professional conferences, workshops, and seminars in nearly every state and in Australia, Canada, France, and South Africa. Her research findings are used by state and federal governmental agencies, advocates and family members, provider organizations, and the press.

My work includes evaluation, policy, survey, and intervention research; secondary analysis of large data sets; and research syntheses. My research interests include

•Medicaid long-term supports and services,

•Social Security Income

•Transition from school to adult living

•Deinstitutionalization,

•Direct Support Professional and Supervisor recruitment, retention and training,

•Access to health care,

•Quality assurance and enhancement, and

•Inclusive community-based supports for people with disabilities.