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Choosing Goals Is Extremely Beneficial, So Why Aren’t People Allowed to Choose?

Choosing Goals Is Extremely Beneficial, So Why Aren’t People Allowed to Choose?

Posted on January 20, 2026

We examined the relationship between choosing goals and outcomes

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DSPs as a Social Determinant of Health of People with IDD

DSPs as a Social Determinant of Health of People with IDD

Posted on January 13, 2026

We examined their impact on health outcomes and supports

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Disability Discrimination in Healthcare Is Associated with Increased Emergency Department Use

Disability Discrimination in Healthcare Is Associated with Increased Emergency Department Use

Posted on January 7, 2026

We examined disabled people's experiences with healthcare

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Who Do People Think of When They Think About Disability?

Who Do People Think of When They Think About Disability?

Posted on December 1, 2025

We examined the prototypical disabled person

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Self-Direction in HCBS for Older Adults

Self-Direction in HCBS for Older Adults

Posted on October 9, 2025

We examined how states across the nation allocated self-direction

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Discriminatory Provider Behaviors Contribute to Disabled People Delaying and Forgoing Medical Care

Discriminatory Provider Behaviors Contribute to Disabled People Delaying and Forgoing Medical Care

Posted on September 25, 2025

We analyzed data from 2,000 disabled people about their healthcare experiences

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Difficult, Challenging, and Worse Quality of Life: Health Care Professionals’ Beliefs about People with IDD

Difficult, Challenging, and Worse Quality of Life: Health Care Professionals’ Beliefs about People with IDD

Posted on September 16, 2025

We examined beliefs and disability and race implicit attitudes

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Disparities in Quality of Life and Quality of Supports in HCBS

Disparities in Quality of Life and Quality of Supports in HCBS

Posted on September 4, 2025

We examine differences among people who receive HCBS

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Feeding Bias: Rethinking the Weight of People with IDD and Social Determinants of Health

Feeding Bias: Rethinking the Weight of People with IDD and Social Determinants of Health

Posted on September 2, 2025

We examined the relationship between weight bias and outcomes

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Intersectional Disability and Race Biases of Health Care Professionals

Intersectional Disability and Race Biases of Health Care Professionals

Posted on July 10, 2025

We examined explicit and implicit attitudes

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Why Do People Become Occupational Therapists?

Why Do People Become Occupational Therapists?

Posted on May 8, 2025

We explored students’ views of the profession.

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The Symbolic Intersecting Ableism and Racism Scale: A New Way to Examine Explicit Attitudes

The Symbolic Intersecting Ableism and Racism Scale: A New Way to Examine Explicit Attitudes

Posted on April 30, 2025

We developed and validated a new measure of explicit attitudes.

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Introducing the Intersecting Disability and Race Attitudes Implicit Association Test (IDRA-IAT)

Introducing the Intersecting Disability and Race Attitudes Implicit Association Test (IDRA-IAT)

Posted on April 10, 2025

This new tool examines intersecting implicit bias

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Autistic People’s Quality of Life Hindered by Low Quality Support, Not their Needs

Autistic People’s Quality of Life Hindered by Low Quality Support, Not their Needs

Posted on January 8, 2025

We examined personal outcomes and supports of autistic people

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States Aim to Only Have 13% of People with IDD Self-Direct HCBS

States Aim to Only Have 13% of People with IDD Self-Direct HCBS

Posted on December 16, 2024

We examined self-direction in HCBS

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Ethical and Quality Concerns About AI for Disability Research

Ethical and Quality Concerns About AI for Disability Research

Posted on December 9, 2024

We outline several issues with AI for qualitative research

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HCBS is an Important Vehicle to Provide Transportation to People with IDD

HCBS is an Important Vehicle to Provide Transportation to People with IDD

Posted on September 26, 2024

We examined how states allocated transportation services in waivers

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HCBS Provides Specialized Medical Equipment to People with IDD

HCBS Provides Specialized Medical Equipment to People with IDD

Posted on September 19, 2024

We examined how states across the nation provided this equipment.

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Provider Organizational Culture Impacts People with IDD’s Outcomes

Provider Organizational Culture Impacts People with IDD’s Outcomes

Posted on August 28, 2024

We examined how treating staff with dignity and respect contributes to quality of life

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We Haven’t ‘Returned to Normal:’ Outcomes & Supports Worse than Before COVID-19

We Haven’t ‘Returned to Normal:’ Outcomes & Supports Worse than Before COVID-19

Posted on July 11, 2024

We examined outcomes and supports four years into the pandemic.

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