Dennis Cleary
Dr. Dennis Cleary is a Senior Researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and has over 25 years of experience as an occupational therapist. Dennis’ clinical practice has been primarily with children and adults with IDD to encourage their full participation in life at home, work, and in the community. He has had previous faculty position at The Ohio State University and was an affiliated faculty member at the Nisonger Center. As a researcher, he has been on teams that have received over seven million dollars in grants from state and federal agencies, including grants from the United States Department of Education and a National Institutes of Health multisite trial of the Vocational Fit Assessment, an age-appropriate transition assessment and job matching tool, which he co-created at the Ohio State University. He is currently funded by the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities to refine VocFit.com to help meet the needs of Ohioans with IDD who are interested in employment. He has numerous publications and national and international presentations.