Concurrent Session B

Moderator: Michelle Reynolds, PhD, FAAIDD, University of Missouri Kansas City and AAIDD Families Interest Network

Increasing Parent Agency and Community Belongingness through a Transition-Focused Parent Intervention: Project SAATHI
Sehrish Shikarpurya, PhD, University of Maryland 

Improving Mental Well-being of Parents of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Claire Lazaro, DNP, MPH, Johns Hopkins University & Valley Mountain Regional Center

Loss of a Sibling with a Disability: Under-Researched Grief
Susan Neely-Barnes, PhD, MSW, University of Memphis
J. Carolyn Graff, PhD, FAAIDD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Minhae Cho, PhD, University of Memphis    

Exploring Parent and Autistic Youth Perspectives to Inform Adaptations for an Advocacy Program
Amanda Johnston, Vanderbilt University
Saury Ramos Torres, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Meghan M. Burke, PhD, FAAIDD, Vanderbilt University
Leann DaWalt, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison           

“I don’t fit in Anywhere”: The Struggles and Triumphs of Caregivers with Disabilities Parenting Children with Disabilities
Jessica Curd, MSW, Indiana University
John Keesler, PhD, MSW, Indiana University