Yeook Kim

Professional Background

Yeook Kim is a licensed occupational therapist and researcher whose work focuses on promoting meaningful community participation and mental well-being among individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). Her commitment to this work is rooted in her clinical experience supporting transition-age youth with disabilities and their families. She is passionate about inclusive, community-engaged research that centers the perspectives and priorities of individuals with IDD and their families.

Before joining the Institute on Disability, her research focused on community participation and family-centered interventions for adolescents and young adults with IDD. As a Project Director II at the Institute on Disability, she contributes to peer-mediated training interventions that enhance community participation or support mental health self-management among transition-age youth and young adults with IDD through community engagement.

Education

Yeook earned a BS in Occupational Therapy from Yonsei University’s Mirae Campus in South Korea, a master’s degree and clinical doctorate in Occupational Therapy from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from Boston University.