Presented by:
I-Ting Hwang, Ph.D., OT,

About the Presenter

I-Ting Hwang, PhD, OT, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Health Behaviors and Community Sciences at National Taiwan University. She completed her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University, her Master of Science and Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Her research interests focus on developing community-based interventions for parents of children and young adults with developmental disabilities to address environmental barriers hinder their participation, with a specific interest in exploring the intersectionality of parenting, disability, and culture. Her doctoral dissertation research focused on developing a conceptual framework to describe how Asian immigrant parents perceive and enact their parental role while accessing and utilizing health and educational services for their child with developmental disabilities in the U.S. She is also pursuing public health research to develop an innovative brief contact intervention to address the unmet needs of self-harm care and improve care coordination.

Her clinical experience includes providing occupational therapy to children, holding support groups for parents of school-aged children with disabilities, and providing consultation for school personnel in a range of practice settings, such as outpatient clinics and schools.