Pac Rim 2025

Presentations

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Table of Contents

Poster Presentations

  • Career Transitions Caused by Chronic Illness: A Career Construction Perspective – Julie Hill
  • College and Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities – Melinda Pierson, Erica Howell
  • Comparing Personal Factor Changes in Individuals with Acquired Brain Injury Engaging in Adaptive Physical Activity Programs – Arlene Schmid, Jaclyn Stephens, Jennifer Weaver
  • Teacher Training in Haiti – Supporting Students with Disabilities in Developing Countries – Melinda Pierson
  • Unified Sports – Marcus Nandu

Recorded Presentation (Virtual via Whova)

  • Accessibility Project: Access for All & Collective Impact – Stephanie Oles
  • Building a CVI Community of Practice Informed by Educator and Community Needs – Nicole Homerin
  • Co-Exploring Inclusivity and Dis/ability in Early Childhood Teacher Education – Leanne Evans
  • Do Speech Language Pathology Students have an Implicit Bias toward Person-First Language or Identify-First Language? – Varun Uthappa Allaranda Ganapathy, Priyanka Shailat, Rachel Lingnau
  • Interprofessional Education on ASD and Intellectual Disabilities: Program Description and Evaluation of Project INTERACT. – Karena Cooper-Duffy
  • Using the Teacher Rating and Assessment Instrument for Teachers of Students with Significant Disabilities (TRAIT-SD) to Facilitate Inclusion. – Karena Cooper-Duffy

25-Minute Presentation

  • A Critical Examination of Neurodiversity and the Neoliberalization of Disability: A Narrative Approach – Luigi Iannacci
  • Adapted Physical Activity Improves Outcomes After Brain Injury: a Mixed Methods Pilot Study of Adapted Yoga and Low-intensity Exercise – Arlene Schmid, Jaclyn Stephens, Jennifer Weaver
  • Barriers and facilitators to engagement in group exercise among individuals with acquired brain injury – Arlene Schmid, Jaclyn Stephens, Jennifer Weaver
  • Black Women Living with Chronic Pain – Julie C. Hill 
  • Building Access Intimacy: How the Louisiana Disabled Divas Found Community and Connection at Split Second – Ashley M. Volion, Sonya Hill
  • Doing the C.H.O.R.E.S: Connecting the Power of Self-Reflection with the Home and Heart – Nathan D Olson
  • Feeling Seen and Heard: Towards Equitable Sex Education for 2SLGBTQ+ People with Developmental Disabilities – Alan Santinele Martino
  • Hand-on Activities: Movement in the Classroom – Melissa Bittner, Jessica Banes
  • Participatory Designed Fraction Game and its Effects on Engagement and Learning: Students with Learning Disabilities – Jessica H Hunt
  • Quantifying Theory into Practice: Results of Fifteen Years of Project Hoʻokuʻi – Lisa Uyehara, Caryl Hitchcock
  • The Road to High Quality Instruction for Significant Disabilities – Ann Meyer
  • Wellness Matters Programs- Community-Based Wellness Programs for the Disability Community – Kelle L Murphy

60-Minute Presentation

  • Building Disability Knowledge Through Community-based Internships and Service-learning Programs – Kelle L Murphy
  • Growing Your Own: Purposeful Partnership with Paraprofessionals. – Nicholas Casia
  • Lessons learned from the Maui wildfires for improving disaster preparedness and response systems serving the disability community – Daniela Bond-Smith, Daintry Bartoldus, Nani Watanabe, Violet Horvath
  • The Right To Be Rescued Is A Fundamental Right: Disability Justice Principles Used for a Whole Community Approach – Erin J. Taylor, Donna Harris, Laura Ridler
  • Using a Competency-based Approach to Provide Technical Assistance to Job Coaches – Tim Riesen