Heading to the New York Metro Abilities International Accessibility Conference? Don’t miss RESNA’s Student Scientific Paper Platform, a one‑hour, moderated session where leading researchers share real‑world findings with a clear focus on how practitioners can apply them immediately in daily practice. Attend this session and earn 0.1 IACET CEU. 

Check out RESNA’s Student Scientific Paper Posters, showcased all day during the conference. This format brings together cutting‑edge research, real‑world practice insights, and emerging policy developments that shape assistive technology and rehabilitation engineering. It offers an inviting space to dive deep into new findings, ask presenters your questions, and connect research to clinical practice, commercial innovation, and policy impact. 

Student Scientific Paper Platform

Friday, May 1st

10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. PST

Room: Main Ballroom

Accessibility gaps in streaming media - what mobile’s decade-long journey can teach us

Presenter: Harry Lew, P.Eng., CUA

Wheelchair service providers’ opinions about the usefulness of a new rear anti-tip device for manual wheelchairs: a mixed-methods focus-group study

Presenter: R. Lee Kirby, MD, FRCPC

Mobility Assistive Product Abandonment and Associated Factors in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia: A Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study

Presenter: Zelalem Dessalegn Demeke, BScPT, MScOT

Tech Transfer: How Transferring the Classroom Audit Pen‑and‑Paper Evaluation to a Mobile App Platform Enhances Accessibility Assessment

Presenter: Sayeda Farzana Aktar, Ph.D.

Student Scientific Paper Posters

Thursday, April 30th - Friday, May 1st

8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. PST

Promenade outside the Main Ballroom

A Functional Model to Rehabilitation Physical Therapies for Patients with Parkinson's disease, using a Mobile Application

Presenter: Jorge Luis Rojas Arce, PhD

Linking Research Themes to Commercial Outcomes: A Machine Learning Analysis of NIDILRR Grants

Presenter: Fuzexia Guo, MS;  Julie Faieta, PhD, OTR/L

Canadian emergency alert accessibility: A comparative analysis with Canadian and United States findings

Presenter: Harry Lew, P.Eng., CUA

Effects of keyboard display patterns on word spelling accuracy in a commercial EEG-based P300 speller

Presenter: Mengxuan Wu, Ph.D.

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