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Through the continued collection of data and demonstration of outcomes related to treatment, occupational therapy can well position itself for the ongoing changes in health care.

Infusing DS ideas into occupational therapy is essential and can promote greater alignment with priorities of disability communities and spur professional change to dismantle oppressive structures and ideologies.

Work is needed to embrace a DS-informed critical and intersectional foundation for the profession and explore the ways in which occupational therapy can better partner with populations through a DS lens.

This study offers unique insight into the disability orientation of occupational therapy practitioners, showing a need for more training programs to expose students to the social model of disability.

Occupational therapy practitioners can improve the hotel experience of people with disabilities through advocacy, consultation with hotels, and direct intervention with clients.

Participatory action research reveals occupational injustices that hinder parents’ engagement in caregiving for their CWD in a marginalized community

Social and structural supports, including children, disability social benefits, and engagement in the disability rights movement, are key for women with disabilities to meet their occupational needs and resist occupational injustices.

Intentional relationship building through shared governance, clear communication, and recognition of the fluid nature of power dynamics is needed for occupational therapy researchers to collaborate with members of disability communities as equal partners.

The authors define the interconnectedness of adults aging with IDD and environmental factors, identify barriers to participation, and guide occupational therapy practitioners’ logic on how to positively affect environmental change and supports through intervention.

Occupational therapy practitioners can address barriers to expression of sexuality among adults with IDD as part of client-centered practice and support sexuality as part of the full human experience.

The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire–Stigma is an innovative intervention for promoting occupational justice to support the health and well-being of TGNC people.

Occupational therapy programs have an important role to play in intervening with students’ assumptions about disability

The findings provide insight into the need to assist clients in developing skills to recognize normalization of disability discrimination and strategies to access equitable health care.

This systematic review supports the role of occupational therapy in providing self-management interventions to address ADLs and sleep for adults with diabetes and other chronic conditions.

This review highlights the lack of and need for interventions within the scope of occupational therapy to increase participation for adults with MS

Caregivers of people with chronic conditions may benefit from problem-solving and coping skills training, dyadic self-management education, and hands-on training.

This review identifies the factors influencing the occupational adaptation of people living with FM and highlights the importance of considering those factors while caring for people with FM.

The authors demonstrate the severe negative psychological impact of the increase in workload resulting from COVID-19 and suggest the importance of psychological supports for occupational therapists.

This article connects AOTA’s Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics with disability ethics using a case-based example to illustrate how disability ethics can enhance practitioner reasoning and provision of care.

Evidence-based interventions can support a child’s sleep, social, and ADL routines in a family and community context.