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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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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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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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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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Racism Undermines Quality in Human Services

Racism Undermines Quality in Human Services

Posted on May 16, 2024

Racism influences the day-to-day in human services

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Many Disability Professionals Don’t Understand Ableism

Many Disability Professionals Don’t Understand Ableism

Posted on February 28, 2024

We examined what disability professionals knew about ableism

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Ableism and Modern Disability Attitudes: Book Chapter

Ableism and Modern Disability Attitudes: Book Chapter

Posted on February 14, 2024

The aim of this book chapter is to describe modern disability attitudes.

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Gender Career Stereotypes, Implicit Bias, and Occupational Therapy

Gender Career Stereotypes, Implicit Bias, and Occupational Therapy

Posted on November 1, 2023

We examined the unconscious attitudes of OT students

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Ableist Language & Disability Professionals: Differences in Language Based on Professionals’ Demographics

Ableist Language & Disability Professionals: Differences in Language Based on Professionals’ Demographics

Posted on September 6, 2023

We examined demographic differences in professionals’ use of language

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Ableist Language & Disability Professionals: Commonly Used Language

Ableist Language & Disability Professionals: Commonly Used Language

Posted on September 6, 2023

In this study we examined what ableist language disability professionals used and saw as problematic

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Most Disability Professionals are Ableist

Most Disability Professionals are Ableist

Posted on June 6, 2023

We examined disability professionals’ conscious and unconscious disability attitudes

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Ableism and Racism Hinder the Quality of Life of Black, Indigenous, People of Color with IDD

Ableism and Racism Hinder the Quality of Life of Black, Indigenous, People of Color with IDD

Posted on February 23, 2023

We examined the negative impact of ableism and racism on quality of life outcomes

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Ableism of Occupational and Physical Therapy Assistants

Ableism of Occupational and Physical Therapy Assistants

Posted on October 14, 2021

We examined the disability attitudes of occupational and physical therapy assistants.

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Anti-Fat Bias in Health Care

Anti-Fat Bias in Health Care

Posted on September 7, 2021

We examined the anti-fat biases of occupational and physical therapy assistants

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Ableism and The Americans with Disabilities Act

Ableism and The Americans with Disabilities Act

Posted on July 22, 2021

In this study, we examined the relationship between ableism and support for the ADA.

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Occupational Therapy Education: Impact on the Ableism of Students

Occupational Therapy Education: Impact on the Ableism of Students

Posted on July 7, 2021

We examined how students’ conscious and unconscious attitudes changed during their education

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