Presented by: Dr. Carrie Henning-Smith, PhD, MPH, MSW
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy & Management, Deputy Director, Rural Health Research Center, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Minnesota
Learning objectives:
1. Participants will learn about rural/urban differences in housing accessibility, affordability and quality.
2. Participants will better understand the ways housing impacts health for rural residents.
3. Participants will identify policies and programs to improve access to high-quality, accessibility housing for rural residents.
- 2025
- Health Equity
- Other
Presented by: Dr. Nicole Hansen, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Seton Hall University
Learning objectives:
1. Define “anti-ableist practices” and explain their importance
2. Examine the research on factors influencing teachers' engagement in anti-ableist practices
3. Identify and explain the role of teacher education programs in preparing teachers to effectively implement anti-ableist practices
- 2025
- Health Equity
- Other
Presented by: Alex Wang, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Learning objectives:
1. Discuss sensory disabilities and their impact for older adults in the U.S.
2. Compare and contrast the types of sensory disabilities and their association with mental health.
- 2025
- Health Equity
- Other
Learning objectives:
1. Identify pathways to Medicaid enrollment for youth with I/DD.
2. Understand barriers to examining the experiences of youth in foster care.
3. Examine differences among subgroups of youth with I/DD in foster care.
- 2025
- Health Equity
- Other
Presented by: Ilan Wiesel, PhD, Associate Professor in Urban Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
Learning objectives:
1. Analyze and discuss study results that examined people with intellectual disabilities' experiences of using mainstream health, community, transport and housing services.
2. Discuss the practices of mainstream services staff and their strategies to make their services more inclusive.
3. Explore a new online resource developed to support mainstream services to become more inclusive.
- 2024
- Health Equity
- Other
Presented by: Yana Rodgers, PhD, Professor, Department of Labor Studies & Employment Relations, Rutgers University
Learning objectives:
Use a novel dataset from the healthcare industry to:
1. Analyze and discuss how different measures of work satisfaction vary between people with and without disabilities.
2. Analyze and discuss how often workers are granted accommodations.
3. Analyze and discuss the extent to which work from home and other accommodations moderate the relationships between work satisfaction and disability.
- 2024
- Other
- Employment
Presented by:
Glenys Mann, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Member Inclusive Education, The Centre for Inclusive Education
Learning objectives:
- To examine the factors that hinder and help partnerships between professionals and parents of children with disability, through the perspectives of parents.
- To explore the roles that parents and professionals play in facilitating positive outcomes for children with disability. When are these roles complementary and when do they clash?
- 2024
- Other
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by:
Scott Landes, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, Syracuse University
Learning objectives:
1. Understand the conceptualization of disability in U.S. population surveys
2. Understand the operationalization of disability in U.S. population surveys
3. Explore alternative ways to measure disability
- 2024
- Other
- Health Equity
Presented by:
Jenna Beffel Toman
Visiting Professor, Psychology
Grand Valley State University
Learning objectives:
1. Examine the research pertaining to caregiving experiences of typically developing siblings of individuals with disabilities.
2. Summarize and discuss resources and supports for typically developing siblings of individuals with disabilities.
- 2024
- Other
- Health Equity
Presented by:
Dr. Cara Molyneux
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Learning objectives:
1. To share insights from interviews with smaller-sized UK employers on their experience of being flexible during the recruitment and employment of disabled workers.
2. To consider the value of comparative international research: How best to capture and share case study examples of inclusive employment policy and practice?
- 2024
- Other
- Employment
Presented by: Grace Brannon
Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Arlington
Objectives:
1. Describe how parents/caregivers of children with disabilities and/or chronic conditions report their healthcare encounters
2. Identify disparities in patient and family-centered care among families with children with disabilities and/or chronic conditions
- 2024
- Healthcare Training
- Health Equity
Presented by: Radhika Sawh, Certified Genetic Counselor, Continental States Team Lead, New York Mid-Atlantic Caribbean Regional Genetics Network
Alissa Bovee Terry, Genetic Counselor, NYMAC Regional Genetics Network
Objectives:
1. Define basic genetic concepts
2. Explain how genetic changes can impact development/health
3. Describe how genetic services can benefit families
- 2024
- Healthcare Training
- Other
Presented by: Sally Robinson, PhD, Disability and Community Inclusion Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University.
Melissa O'Donnell, PhD, Associate Professor Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia.
Objectives:
1. Scope and map current data capture of children and young people with disability experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV), identifying gaps and limitations, and mapping new intersections unique to this group.
2. Develop a new understanding of the support and service needs, priorities and perspectives of children and young people with disability experiencing DFV, as well as system barriers and enablers.
3. Determine steps to bring service processes into better alignment with children and young people’s priorities.
- 2024
- Other
Presented by: Michael Yogman
Topics:
1) Fathers can successfully interact with infants and children right from birth with benefits for both children and families
2) Fathers have been neglected and misunderstood; their role is complementary to that of mothers, unique and not redundant
3) Fathers are the preferred play partner with infants and children
- 2024
- Other
Presented by: Dr. Krestin Radonovich
Learning objectives:
1. Identify three symptoms of possible autism spectrum disorder often seen in primary care clinics.
2. State three possible referral sources for autism evaluation.
3. Identify and discuss types of technology in identifying and treating developmental disabilities.
- 2023
- Health Equity
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Aline Darc Piculo dos Santos, Academic Researcher from Sao Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil Learning objectives: - Discuss the factors that influence the stigma of assistive technologies (AT). - Discuss the relationship between AT's aesthetics and abandonment.
- 2023
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Clare Wilding, PhD; and Irene Blackberry, PhD; John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Wodonga, Victoria, Australia. Trent Dean, GAICD, Mercy Connect, Albury, New South Wales, Australia. Learning objectives: - To illustrate how virtual reality technology can provide (remote) training for disability support worker. - To highlight how academic-industry alliances can create practice-based evidence.
- 2023
- Healthcare Training
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Leanne Hassett, Associate Professor, Discipline of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Faculty of Medicine and Health, Leadership team Implementation Science Program, Sydney Health Partners; The University of Sydney
Learning objectives:
- To understand the current evidence-base about physical activity for people living with moderate to severe TBI.
- To appreciate multiple stakeholder perspectives of the acceptability and feasibility of promotion and delivery of physical activity for people living with moderate to severe TBI.
- To consider the process for developing and recommendations of the clinical practice guidelines on physical activity for people living with moderate to severe TBI.
- 2023
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Dr. John Freer
Objectives:
1. To explore the Tripartite Intervention (aka the ABC Educational Program)
2. To consider the ways in which children conceptualize disability
3. To explore students' attitudes toward disability and associated factors
- 2023
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Susan Havercamp Objectives: 1. Discuss the need to train healthcare providers to care for patients with disabilities 2. Describe what healthcare providers need to understand about disability to care for patients with disabilities 3. Identify promising strategies to incorporate disability content in healthcare education
- 2023
- Health Equity
- Healthcare Training
Presented by: Cortland Nesley This presentation will cover an overview of the neurodiversity movement and its place within the field of disability. Attendees of this presentation will: - Learn what neurodiversity is and how it can reshape common conceptions of disability and identify - Understand the pathology paradigm and how it impacts the construction of health interventions - Identify historical and contemporary examples of neurodiversity and pathology paradigms in practice - Consider how neurodiversity can inform their work as professionals in the field of disability
- 2023
- Healthcare Training
Presented by: Dr. Varshini Varadaraj, MD, MPH, MS Research Associate Johns Hopkins Disability Health Center
- 2023
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Rick Solomon, Medical Director, The PLAY Project Objectives: - List the 5 public policy arguments for the benefits of parent implemented models that use a developmental and relationship-based framework - State the mission and vision of The PLAY Project autism intervention model - Describe how The PLAY Project evolved from a clinical model and a research-based intervention to become implemented as a statewide early intervention program
- 2023
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Erin E. Andrews, Psy.D., ABPP, Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist
- 2022
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Lorenzo Rum
- 2022
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Dr. Paul Jaeger
- 2022
- Health Equity
Presented by:
Karl Atkin, FAcSS
Department of Sociology
University of York
- 2022
- Health Equity
Presented by: Karrie Shogren, PhD Professor and Senior Scientist University of Kansas Director, Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities Participants will be able to: - Define self-determination and implications of promoting self-determination for research, policy and practice - Identify research-based assessment and intervention approaches to support self-determination - Describe ways to individualize supports for self-determination based on environmental demands and personal characteristics
- 2022
- Other
Presented by: Park Sujeong, MA Assistant Policy Researcher RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA
- 2022
- Other
- Employment
Presented by:
Arif Jetha PhD
Scientist, Institute for Work & Health
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Specifics:
• Describe key future of work trends that represent challenges and opportunities for people with disabilities.
• Examine the perceptions of the future of work held by people living with disabilities.
• Discuss strategies and recommendations to support the employment of people living with disabilities from the perspective of policy leaders and disability employment service provides.
- 2021
- Employment
Presented by: Scott D. Landes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Aging Studies Institute Faculty Associate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion Research Affiliate. Learning Objectives: To understand trends among adults with an intellectual and developmental disability in: 1) age at death; 2) cause of death; and 3) comorbidities present at the time of death.
- 2021
- Health Equity
Presented by: Sophie Hennekam, PhD Associate Professor, ESC La Rochelle School of Business, France Learning Objectives: - Discuss under which circumstances a disability quota system can empower disabled workers. - Review how disabled workers come to construct a positive professional identity at work. - Discuss and analyze how mental illness can be a positive attribute in the context of work.
- 2021
- Employment
Presented by: Lisa Iezzoni, MD, MSc Health Policy Research Center - The Mongan Institute Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Learning objectives: - Understand the general scope of health care disparities for people with disabilities and potential causes. - Assess the potential contribution of physicians’ attitudes, biases, and knowledge gaps to health care disparities for people with disabilities. - Identify potential implications of biased physician attitudes toward the health care and well-being of people with disabilities.
- 2021
- Healthcare Training
Presented by: Dr. Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
- 2021
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Katie Wang, Yale School of Public Health
- 2021
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Dikaios Sakellariou By the end of this session, participants will have: - Gained an overview of the cancer disparities experiences by people with disabilities, - Explored the reasons underpinning such disparities, and - Identified strategies that can lead to more equitable cancer care.
- 2021
- Health Equity
Presented by: Cristan Farmer, Ph.D Attendees of this talk will learn: - The scientific and clinical importance of accurately differentiating ID and ASD. - The DSM-based guidelines and clinical best practice for the diagnosis of ID, and of ASD in the context of ID. - The current state of knowledge regarding the use and validity of tools used to assess ASD symptoms in the context of ID. - The definition of measurement invariance and its relevance to tools used to assess ASD symptoms in the context of ID.
- 2021
- Healthcare Training
Presented by: Sara Szanton, PHD, MSN, RN, FAAN, ANP Professor; Endowed Professor for Health Equity and Social Justice Director, Center for Innovative Care in Aging Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
- 2021
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Michael Thelwall and Dr. Jonathan Lewitt - Discuss the issues raised in highly retweeted disability-related tweets in the early stages of COVID-19 (March 10 to April 4, 2020). -Highlight the value of Twitter for analyzing public reactions to disability-related news.
- 2020
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dr. Amy Fiske Director of Clinical Training Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology West Virginia University At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to: - Describe a lifespan developmental framework for understanding the associations among functional impairments, depression, and suicidal behavior in older adults - Characterize the associations between functional impairment and depression or suicidal behavior among older adults - Identify factors that may moderate or mediate associations between functional impairment and depression or suicidal behavior among older adults - Discuss implications for the prevention of depression and suicidal behavior among older adults
- 2020
- Health Equity
Presented by: Dora M. Raymaker, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Regional Research Institute, Portland State University Co-Director, Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education Associate Editor, Autism in Adulthood Attendees of this talk will learn to: - Recognize the barriers to healthcare access and quality commonly faced by adults on the autism spectrum - Identify ways in which providers and staff may have leverage in reducing these barriers - Use the AASPIRE Healthcare Toolkit for patients, supporters, and providers - Determine ways that you and your office can improve the experiences of the adults on the autism spectrum you serve
- 2020
- Health Equity
Presented by: Jonathan G. Martinis, Esq., JD Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) Syracuse University Senior Director for Law and Policy Objectives: - Participants will learn the importance of self-determination for people with disabilities, including studies showing that people who exercise more self-determination have better life and health outcomes - Participants will learn how improved patient empowerment and enhanced communication between health care professionals and patients leads to improved health outcomes for patients and increased job satisfaction and performance for health care professionals - Participants will learn strategies for using Supported Decision-Making to enhance communication between patients and professionals, increase self-determination by patients, and improve outcomes. Jonathan Martinis is the Senior Director for Law and Policy for the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, leading it's efforts to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities have access to the services and supports they need to lead independent, inclusive lives.
- 2020
- Other
Presented by: Brittany T. Smith, WVU School of Public Health
- 2019
- Other
Presented by: Stacey Whanger
- 2019
- Health Equity
Presented by: Jason Roush, DDS West Virginia State Dental Director WV Oral Health Program Julie Jackson, RDH, NCTTP Program Manager WV Oral Health Program Ravi Parker, BSDH Prevention Coordinator WV Oral Health Program
- 2019
- Health Equity
Presented by: Paula Sotnik
Institute for Community Inclusion
School for Global Inclusion & Social Development
University of Massachusetts Boston
- 2019
- Health Equity
Presented by: Melissa Marra, Associate Professor of Human Nutrition and Foods, West Virginia University
- 2019
- Innovative Interventions
Presented by: Dr. Claire St. Peter, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Behavioral Analysis Area at West Virginia University
- 2018
- Employment
Presented by: Sally Gould-Taylor, PhD Director of Research and Evaluation Institute on Disabilities, UCEDD College of Education, Temple University The Session will address: - Thinking beyond the “advisory board" - Guidelines for creating authentic inclusive research design, protocol, data collection, and analysis - Examples of PAR research in disability - Approaches for interviewing individuals with disabilities for research purposes -- Reparation -- Rapport -- Active Listening -- Reflective Listening -- Communication Aids
- 2018
- Innovative Interventions
