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2025<\/h2>\n

Rachel Vaughn: Understanding Participation in Occupation for Youth with Neurological Disability<\/p>\n

Zhaoying Li: Understanding community participation\u00a0for individuals with stroke in Southern China: A Multimethod study<\/p>\n

Lily Gullion: Serving the Country: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Media About School Meal Policies from 2020-2024<\/p>\n

2024<\/h2>\n

Susie Agostine: Relationship building and meaning making: An exploratory study<\/p>\n

Ya Cing Syu: Understanding autistic young adults’ perceptions of sleep and the role of habits and routines in sleep experiences: A multi-method study<\/p>\n

2023<\/h2>\n

Stephanie Bristol: Understanding Participation in the Community for Autistic Children, Their Families and Their Assistance Dogs<\/p>\n

2022<\/h2>\n

Ben Lee: Exploring sensory processing and sensory experience in everyday life for adults with schizophrenia: A collaborative approach<\/p>\n

2021<\/h2>\n

Amanda Carroll: Examining the relationships between military service, occupation, resilience, and successful aging for older U.S. military veterans: A mixed methods study<\/p>\n

2020<\/h2>\n

Feddah Ahmad: Understanding the Occupation of Play: A Middle Eastern Revelation a Preliminary Exploration into Arab Parental Values and Children\u2019s Engagement in Play in Kuwait<\/p>\n

Katie Williams: Factors Impacting Participation in the Sensory Environment for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/p>\n

Adam DePrimo: The \u00c9pist\u00e9m\u00e8 of the Normal Bell Curve in Post-secondary Transition<\/p>\n

Aaron Dallman: Understanding the Affective Dimension of Occupational Participation Among Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study<\/p>\n

2019<\/h2>\n

Abigail Carroll: Caregiving Teams and Toddlers Study: Two Single-Case Changing Criterion Designs to Examine the Effects of a Two Parent-Mediated Intervention for Families with Toddlers at Risk or with Autism<\/p>\n

Ryan Lavalley: Occupations of a Living Community: Social Transformation of a Senior Center Welcoming Spanish-Speaking Older Adult Immigrants<\/p>\n

2018<\/h2>\n

Lauren Holahan: A Demonstration of the \u2018Transactional Perspective as Method\u2019 Integrating Occupational Science and Implementation Science<\/p>\n

Mei-Ling Lin: The Transactional Effects between Family Occupations and Child Emotion Regulation Across Early Childhood<\/p>\n

Ashley Mason: Mealtime Experiences and Activities: An Ethnography from the Children\u2019s Perspective<\/p>\n

Nikhil Tomar: An Ethnographic Analysis of Stigma Towards Mental Illness and Mental Health Care at Clubhouses in North Carolina<\/p>\n

2017<\/h2>\n

Caroline McCarty: Coming Home: Family Routines and Sense of Belonging in Older Child Adoption<\/p>\n

Adrienne Miao: Family Occupation: A Study in Negotiated Participation<\/p>\n

Chetna Sethi: Parental Decision-Making Processes: Historical and Sociocultural Influences on Everyday Parenting Occupations<\/p>\n

2016<\/h2>\n

Valerie Fox: An Exploration of Social Participation for Young Adults Following a First Psychotic Episode<\/p>\n

Khaliah Johnson: Daily Life Activities in a Residential Facility for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: An Institutional Ethnography<\/p>\n

2015<\/h2>\n

Anne Kirby: Factors Influencing Participation Outcomes of Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/p>\n

2014<\/h2>\n

Ashley Freuler: Facing Challenges on Two Fronts: Exploring the Process of Resilience for Military Families Raising a Child with Autism<\/p>\n

2013<\/h2>\n

Emily Furgang Kertcher: Engagement of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Postsecondary Education<\/p>\n

Kendra Heatwole Shank: Community Livability for Older Adults: The Person-Place Relationship and Process<\/p>\n

Lauren Little: Home and community activities : Dimensions and associations with patterns of sensory response among children with autism spectrum disorders<\/p>\n

Heather Fritz: Integrating Diabetes Self-Management into Daily Life: Exploring Process, Habit, and Occupation<\/p>\n

Sumita Rege: Looking beyond: A study of blogging and what it tells us about occupations<\/p>\n

Mackenzi Pergolotti: Older Adults with Cancer: Participation in Activity and the Utilization of Occupational Therapy<\/p>\n

2011<\/h2>\n

Rebecca Aldrich: Discouraged workers’ daily occupations : Exploring complex transactions in the experience of unemployment<\/p>\n

Antoine Bailliard: Latino immigration to Small Town, North Carolina : Transformations in El Nuevo South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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