{"id":509588,"date":"2026-10-27T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509588\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:04:31","slug":"abilities-expo-preps-for-first-event-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509588\/","title":{"rendered":"Abilities Expo preps for first event of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Abilities Expo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Abilities-Expo.gif\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;\"\/>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abilities.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abilities Expo<\/a> returns to the Long Beach Convention Center Jan. 14-16, 2027, building on last year\u2019s event there, which drew more than 13,000 visitors. This year, the show will feature three, instead of two, exhibit halls with more than 200 exhibitors. \u201cAbilities Expo filled two halls in its first year with us, and we\u2019re proud to welcome it back with a third,\u201d said Robert Smit, general manager of the Long Beach Convention &amp; Entertainment Center. \u201cThousands of people come downtown for this free event, and that impact shows up in our hotels and restaurants along Pine Avenue. Just as important, it gives our team practical experience welcoming guests with disabilities. As we prepare this campus to host Paralympic events \u2013 including Para climbing, shooting, swimming, and sitting volleyball \u2013 for the LA28 Games in August 2028, shows like Abilities Expo help us keep improving how we serve every visitor.\u201d Long Beach is the first stop of the 2027 Abilities Expo series, which continues to the New York metro area, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix and Orlando, Fla. The Abilities International Accessibility Conference will run alongside the expo Jan. 14-15 at the Long Beach Convention Center. After launching in Long Beach in March 2026, the conference returns for professionals who assess, prescribe, supply and support complex rehab and assistive technology, including physical and occupational therapists, ATPs, speech-language pathologists, rehab case managers, equipment suppliers and students entering the field. The 2027 theme is \u201cAccess, Applied,\u201d with a focus on hands-on learning, with close to 10 hours of continuing education (0.975 IACET, CPTA and AOTA CEUs) across three tracks: Assessment &amp; Provision, Clinical Skills Workshop and Adapted Living. Register for the Abilities Expo <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/xrUNCAD96Etxg778c9i9QsGHiaj?domain=abilities.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. Register for the Abilities International Accessibility Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/b8vuCBBRrGix1EEycjsyjs2qtcS?domain=abilitiesconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Abilities Expo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Abilities Expo returns to the Long Beach Convention Center Jan. 14-16, 2027, building on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-509588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}