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Bridging the gap, how interprofessional collaboration can support emergency preparedness for children with disabilities and their families: an exploratory qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article
Flanagan, S. K., Sterman, J. J., Merighi, J. R., & Batty, R. (2023). Bridging the gap, how interprofessional collaboration can support emergency preparedness for children with disabilities and their families: an exploratory qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 777. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15580-4

Background: Children with disabilities and their families are at higher risk during emergencies and disasters, which is often attributed to the lack of disability inclusion in emergency response as well as disparities in preparedness. This disparity... Read More about Bridging the gap, how interprofessional collaboration can support emergency preparedness for children with disabilities and their families: an exploratory qualitative study.

Autistic adult perspectives on occupational therapy for Autistic children and youth (2022)
Journal Article
Sterman, J., Gustafson, E., Eisenmenger, L., Hamm, L., & Edwards, J. (2023). Autistic adult perspectives on occupational therapy for Autistic children and youth. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 43(2), 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/15394492221103850

The Autistic community values neurodiversity-positive approaches rather than behavioral interventions for Autistic children; however, little is known about what that would look like in occupational therapy. Frequently, researchers seek parent perspec... Read More about Autistic adult perspectives on occupational therapy for Autistic children and youth.

Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion (2022)
Journal Article
Sterman, J., Njelesani, J., & Carr, S. (2022). Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 6(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2022.060103

There is a pressing need to address racism within healthcare education; however, occupational therapy educators lack a compilation of discipline-specific knowledge of anti-racist actions. The objective of this study was to examine anti-racist instruc... Read More about Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion.

Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners: A Scoping Study (2021)
Journal Article
Sterman, J., & Njelesani, J. (2021). Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners: A Scoping Study. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 41(4), 232-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/15394492211019931

The ongoing racism pandemic in the United States negatively impacts the health, safety, and occupations of Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color. Although occupational therapy (OT) practitioners have a pressing obligation to actively address raci... Read More about Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners: A Scoping Study.

Parents’ perspectives on managing risk in play for children with developmental disabilities (2021)
Journal Article
Stillianesis, S., Spencer, G., Villeneuve, M., Sterman, J., Bundy, A., Wyver, S., Tranter, P., Naughton, G., Ragen, J., & Beetham, K. S. (2022). Parents’ perspectives on managing risk in play for children with developmental disabilities. Disability and Society, 37(8), 1272-1292. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2021.1874298

Parents are often concerned about managing risks for their children, particularly in the context of disability. This paper reports qualitative findings from an intervention study and examines how parents of children with developmental disabilities (m... Read More about Parents’ perspectives on managing risk in play for children with developmental disabilities.

Expectations and Assumptions: Examining the Influence of Staff Culture on a Novel School-Based Intervention to Enable Risky Play for Children with Disabilities (2021)
Journal Article
Grady-Dominguez, P., Ragen, J., Sterman, J., Spencer, G., Tranter, P., Villeneuve, M., & Bundy, A. (2021). Expectations and Assumptions: Examining the Influence of Staff Culture on a Novel School-Based Intervention to Enable Risky Play for Children with Disabilities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(3), Article 1008. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031008

Risky play is challenging, exciting play with the possibility of physical, social, or emotional harm. Through risky play, children learn, develop, and experience wellbeing. Children with disabilities have fewer opportunities than their typically deve... Read More about Expectations and Assumptions: Examining the Influence of Staff Culture on a Novel School-Based Intervention to Enable Risky Play for Children with Disabilities.

Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play (2020)
Book Chapter
Grady-Dominguez, P., Ihrig, K., Lane, S. J., Aberle, J., Beetham, K., Ragen, J., Spencer, G., Sterman, J., Tranter, P., Wyver, S., & Bundy, A. (2020). Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play. In S. Hepburn (Ed.), Family-Focused Interventions (1-45). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.irrdd.2020.09.001

Risky play is invigorating, challenging play with uncertain outcomes that optimizes children's development, health, and everyday well-being and creates opportunities to develop decision-making skills in low-consequence contexts, experience positive f... Read More about Reframing risk: Working with caregivers of children with disabilities to promote risk-taking in play.

School Playground Intervention for Children With Disabilities Creates Play Capabilities and Shifts Adult Perspectives (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sterman, J., Villeneuve, M., Bundy, A., & Wyver, S. School Playground Intervention for Children With Disabilities Creates Play Capabilities and Shifts Adult Perspectives

Five schools participated in the Sydney Playground Project to increase choice, control, and inclusion of students with disabilities on the school playground. The intervention served as a catalyst to challenge teacher perceptions of children’s disabil... Read More about School Playground Intervention for Children With Disabilities Creates Play Capabilities and Shifts Adult Perspectives.

Enablers of Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: A Scoping Review (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sterman, J., & Villeneuve, M. (2020, March). Enablers of Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: A Scoping Review. Poster presented at AOTA Annual Conference & Expo, Boston, Massachusetts

This scoping review identified that people with disabilities require capability-focused knowledge networks, actions, and advocacy to enable emergency preparedness. OTs are uniquely positioned to collaboratively address unmet emergency-preparedness su... Read More about Enablers of Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: A Scoping Review.