
Aaron Dallman, PhD, OTR/L, Assistant Professor
Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science, School of Health Professions
Dr. Aaron Dallman, PhD, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist and translational social scientist with a research emphasis on improving the lives and wellbeing of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Dr. Dallman works at the intersection of healthcare and community, employing a multi-informant and mixed-methods approach to enhance the quality of healthcare and educational interventions throughout the treatment process. For example, Dr. Dallman has partnered with health systems to evaluate practitioner attitudes and to develop scalable educational programs to improve high-value service delivery throughout the healthcare experience (e.g., primary care to specialty care). Dr. Dallman aims to create scalable and high-value interventions within health and educational systems. Dr. Dallman’s research has been shown to meet community-centered priorities and improve transition outcomes for individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions. Their work has informed evidence-based practices that are now being implemented in partnership with a hospital system. Dr. Dallman also has a research interest in innovative philosophical approaches to understanding human participation and engagement in the world. They are particularly interested in embodiment theories and how they might help us better understand the experiences of those with disabilities.