National Capacity Building Institute

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Lex Frieden is Senior Vice President at TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) in Houston, Texas. He is also Director of TIRR's Independent Living Research Utilization Program and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine.

Mr. Frieden was appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 26, 2002, as Chairperson of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency located in Washington, D.C. The Council is charged with making recommendations on disability policy issues to the President and Congress.

Mr. Frieden currently serves as President of Rehabilitation International, a federation of 200 national and international organizations and agencies in 90 countries working for the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities and their families within society, and for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities. He is also a member of the United Nations Panel of Experts on the Standard Rules for Disability.

He has received two Presidential Citations for his work in the field of disability, and he was honored by the U.S. Jaycees in 1983 as one of America's Ten Outstanding Young Men. In 1998, he received the Henry B. Betts Award for "efforts that significantly improve the quality of life for people with disabilities."

The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition is funded by and is a partner with the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, cooperative agreement # H326J000005.

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