ACCESSIBILITY AND DISABILITY
Bring new audiences through your doors; bring your organization into compliance with The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Does someone in your organization require an accommodation?
TNI Consultants designs a custom Universal Access initiative for your organization, so you can:
- offer inclusive programs, services, products and exhibits
- assess your physical facility to ensure ADA compliance
- interact effectively with people who have disabilities
- offer reasonable accommodations to stakeholders with disabilities, (e.g., scooters, magnifiers)
- convert your business materials into alternative formats (e.g., Braille, video with open captioning, large print, models)
Terrie Nolinske, Ph.D. is an occupational therapist with over 30 years of experience in the health care industry, helping people who have physical, emotional, intellectual and psychological disabilities maximize their abilities. She directed an award-winning accessibility initiative at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo for which the zoo received the Accessibility Award from American Association of Museums and The National Organization on Disability.
These samples show a range of projects:
Education & Training
Developing people is an important business strategy! TNI Consultants designs custom curricula, informal programs and training programs with manuals so you can:
- offer interactive training programs on timely topics
- support risk management initiatives (e.g., disability or diversity awareness)
- provide hands-on programs and learning activities to museum visitors and teacher’s guides to accompany exhibitions
- develop new faculty knowledge and skills in teaching
- provide employees with handouts for future reference
Terrie Nolinske, Ph.D., has held senior education positions in cultural institutions and faculty appointments in higher education. She has developed exhibit activities and exhibit guides as well as curricula for college courses and museum programs.
Award: Dr. Nolinske received the Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching from graduate students in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University.
Education and training projects include:
Evaluation & Process Improvement
Maximize your return on investment! Evaluate and improve your programs, exhibitions, business systems and core business processes.
TNI Consultants researches, gathers and analyzes the information you need to:
- focus and streamline your planning process
- identify the need for (or ways) to change
- identify and define measureable outcomes
- evaluate the impact of programs, exhibits, products or services
Terrie Nolinske, Ph.D. developed expertise in minimizing problems in survey research and evaluation at Northwestern University. TNI Consultants has in-depth expertise in and experience with outcomes-based planning and evaluation using quantitative and qualitative research methods in front-end, formative and summative evaluations.
Award: The 1996 National Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring for dissertation research, The Value of the Mentor Protégé Relationship as Perceived by the Mentor, the Protégé and the Protégé's Boss.
Examples of evaluation projects include:
Writing & Editing
Words and ideas are important! Finding the right words and ideas takes time. So does researching that new project.
TNI Consultants saves you time and applies its award-winning capabilities to research, write and edit your:
- annual reports or indices
- blog articles
- case studies
- curricula
- exhibit concepts and exhibition guides
- feature stories
- grants
- interpretive copy for museum graphics and exhibits
- PowerPoint slides
- teacher's guides
- training materials
Terrie Nolinske, Ph.D. is an award-winning writer whose engaging style stimulates interest; her meticulous research ensures accuracy. She is an elected member of the National Association of Science Writers, with over 150 publications to her credit in books, consumer magazines, peer-reviewed journals and newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune.
Award: “Writing a Research Proposal”, by Terrie Nolinske, was the 3rd best article published in the Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, 8(4), 132-138 in 1996.
Writing samples include: