Relationships Between OT Students’ Understandings of Disability and Disability Attitudes

Abstract Date Presented 03/28/20 This presentation describes the findings of a study exploring incoming OT graduate students’ understandings of disability and their implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) attitudes toward it. The presentation will explore how students’ attitudes toward disability may be influenced by curriculum design, with discussion of strategies educators might incorporate to support or challenge their conceptual underpinnings of disability and its causes. Primary Author and Speaker: Laura VanPuymbrouck Contributing Authors: Carli Friedman