Transition to Research and Training
ERIC continued until 1990, when the clinic’s focus turned to research and, under the direction of Leonard Matheson, became the ERIC Human Performance Laboratory. (At that time, the training division was taken over by Roy Matheson, who founded Roy Matheson and Associates, a professional training development and resource center.)
EPIC, the Employment Potential Improvement Corporation, was founded in 1990 at ERIC to make available applications of the knowledge that was being developed in the Human Performance Laboratory.
ERIC closed in 1996, when Dr. Matheson accepted a position on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. EPIC was reorganized as a Missouri corporation in 1996.