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David Hagner
Durham, NH
david.hagner@unh.edu
David serves as Rehabilitation Projects Director and research professor
with the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability. He is a
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor with over 20 years' experience in
teaching, research, evaluation and direct service. He currently co-directs
the New England Regional Continuing Education Program for Community
Rehabilitation Personnel and conducts research and demonstration projects
on the transition from school to adult life. He is the author of Career
Advancement Strategies and Tools as well as several other books, chapters,
monographs and journal articles related to employment and rehabilitation;
and is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences.
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 102 D
Ann Higgins Hains
Milwaukee, WI
annhains@uwm.edu
Ann is a faculty member in the Department of Exceptional Education at the
University of Wisconsin. She has participated in a number of
funded personnel preparation, demonstration, outreach, and in-service
projects. She has served as co-principal investigator of the Culturally
and
Linguistically Appropriate Services Early Childhood Research Institute.
She is co-author of Bridging Early Services for Children with Special
Needs and Their Families: A Practical Guide for Transition. Currently, she
is a research team member of the NECTC.
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 203 E
Richard Hall
New Orleans, LA
rhall1@uno.edu
Rich is a doctoral student in special education at the University of New
Orleans. He is employed as a part time faculty member in the teacher
education program. Rich also supports the evaluation efforts of the
Louisiana State Improvement Grant which is focused on school improvement
initiatives linking general and special education.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 202 E
Friday 1:30 pm - MIDWEST 202 E
Thursday 12:45 pm -Roundtable Luncheon
Kara Halley
Greeley, CO
khalley@vanion.com
Kara is a graduate research assistant at the National Center on
Low-Incidence Disabilities (NCLID). She is also currently a doctoral
student at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. Her
emphasis is in the area of severe disabilities. Prior to this, she was a
teacher of students with significant cognitive disabilities in which she
focused on creating full inclusive educational programs and systems change
within her school district. Her research interests include post-school
outcomes, transition services, and inclusive education.
Thursday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 102 C
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST Ballroom D
John Halloran
Maumelle, AR
halloran@sbcglobal.net
John is a representative of the Prentke Romich Corporation (PRC). He has
his masters in Communicative Disorders from the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences in 1992. He has worked at Arkansas Easter Seals
Rehabilitation Center, specializing in assistive technology. John has
worked for PRC for over 11 years.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 203 E
Ann T. Halvorsen
San Francisco, CA
ahalvors@csuhayward.edu
Ann has been working in the field for 34 years and has been a special and
general education teacher; professional-parent development designer and
facilitator; teacher-trainer; advocate through organizations such as CAL-TASH
and Californian for Inclusive Schools; parent school coordinator; author;
research, outreach, and model demonstration project director; systems
change project Co-director; SFUSD parent and now, California State
University, Hayward professor. Her focus for more than 15 years has been
on inclusive services, and she is currently very interested in staffing
approaches that best support inclusive education.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 201 A
Mary Frances Hanline
Tallahassee, FL
mhanline@fsu.edu
Mary Frances is an Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood
Education, Reading, and Disability Services at Florida State University.
She teaches courses in the Special Education doctoral and Education of
Students with Exceptionalities teacher preparation program. She is
currently directing a U.S. Department of Education personnel preparation
grant focusing on the development of infant/toddler personnel preparation
and co-directing a U.S. Department of Education project of national
significance, the purpose of which is to develop modules to educate early
child care providers about positive behavior support. In the past, she has
served as principal investigator of a U.S. Department of Education
Directed Research project focusing on relating preschool experiences to
early literacy and related literacy skills.
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 203 E
Amy Hanreddy
North Hollywood, CA
rednonine@earthlink.net
Amy is a special education teacher with five years of experience
co-teaching in inclusive settings. She has worked as an itinerant teacher
in Simi Valley, CA, and is currently teaching at CHIME Elementary School
in Woodland Hills, CA, which recently received the honor of being named
"California Charter School of the Year." Amy received her MA in
Special Education with an emphasis in severe/multiple disabilities from
California State University, Northridge and co-teaches a class at CSN
entitled, "Inclusive Education" for both general and special
education credential candidates.
Friday 1:30 pm - MIDWEST 201 B
Darlene Hanson
Whitter, CA
dghanson62@charter.net
Darlene is a Speech and Language Specialist with a private practice in
Whittier, CA. She has been working with people with severe disabilities
including autism for the past 17 years. For the past 13 years Darlene has
been involved in the development of Facilitated Communication. She has
participated in the development of the Standards for Best Practice in
Facilitated Communication developed at Syracuse University. Darlene also
coauthored the research, "Investigation of authorship in facilitated
communication" published in Mental Retardation in 1996. She currently
sees clients for therapy, and consults with school districts and adult
agencies around the state of California. Her goal is to increase
communication and expression of thoughts for those with severe
communication impairments, while enhancing communicative opportunities.
Wednesday 10:00 am - MIDWEST 102 B
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 103 E
Dennis Harkins
Fitchburg, WI
dwharks@aol.com
Dennis works on facilitating systems change based upon integrating the
strengths of individuals and families, communities, and service systems.
He can be reached at A Simpler Way, Inc., Madison, WI.,
Wednesday 10:00 am -MIDWEST 103 C
Thursday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 202 C
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 202 C
Julie Harmon
Colorado Springs, CO
jharmon@peakparent.org
Julie is the Coordinator of Special Project for PEAK Parent Center,
Colorado's federally-designated Parent Training and Information Center.
Julie
is active in various roles related to Part C in Colorado, including the
ICC. Julie is also the mother of two children with Down Syndrome.
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 103 B
Sarah Harriss
Chicago, IL
sande1@luc.edu
Sarah is currently enrolled in the Special Education Program at Loyola
University Chicago's School of Education, from which she will receive her
M.Ed. in December, 2005. She also holds a Master of Divinity degree from
Yale Divinity school. Upon graduating from Loyola, she hopes to work in an
inclusive classroom in the Chicago Public School system. Sally has served
on the Positive Behavioral Support Research team since Fall of 2003, when
she began her program at Loyola.
Friday 1:30 pm - MIDWEST 102 C
Debra Hart
Boston, MA
debra.hart@umb.edu
Debra is the coordinator of School and Community Projects at the ICI. She
has over twenty five years of experience working with children and adults
with disabilities. She has directed over 20 federal and state projects
related to assisting schools in creating access to and progress in the
general curriculum for their students with disabilities (grades K-12). She
has produced numerous training documents and published articles relating
to inclusive education, technology and access to general education
curriculum, postsecondary education options for students with significant
disabilities, and assistive technology.
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 203 B
Roxana Hartmann
Blacksburg, VA
iroxproducts@aol.com
Roxana is the parent of Mark, and OCTP student. Roxana and her husband,
Joseph has been instrumental in helping MCPS create and implement special
education opportunities for Mark and others. Roxana is well known advocate
for all students with disabilities. She is a consultant in the area of
autism and is an invaluable resource for the MCPS OCTP.
Thursday 2:00 pm - MIDWEST 102 B
David Hasbury
Toronto, ON
hasbury@cocreation.ca
David is an organizational and community development consultant, educator,
and facilitator. For more than 20 years he has been committed to engaging
the power of CoCreation --- people gathering together to creatively shape
the world around them.
Thursday 4:30 pm - MIDWEST BALLROOM C
Rooshey Hasnain
Boston, MA
rooshey.hasnain@umb.edu
Rooshey has over 15 years of experience in the special education and
rehabilitation fields. Currently, she is Senior Specialist of several
community capacity building initiatives that focus on refugees and
immigrants at the Institute for Community Inclusion, a University Center
for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), at the University of
Massachusetts Boston and Children's Hospital Boston. Her commitment to
working with diverse communities has grown through active participation in
several state and federal capacity building projects at ICI. Her interests
include school-to-adult life transition, service delivery models,
organizational capacity-building, and cross-cultural perceptions of
disability.
Friday 1:30 pm - MIDWEST 203 D
Wendy Hecht
Madison, WI
teamwork@tds.net
Wendy helped shape self-directed services in Dane County, WI first as a
county program specialist and then as the director of her own support
broker agency. Wendy is currently the director of and a support broker at
Teamwork Associate in Madison, W.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 202 C
Mary F. Held
Bloomington, IN
maheld@indiana.edu
Mary is a Research Associate and Project Coordinator at the Indiana
Institute on Disability and Community. Mary has a BS in Special Education,
Master's in Rehabilitation Counseling, and is completing her Ph.D. in
Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana University. Mary's interest focus on
inclusive education, self-determination, transition from school to adult
life, organizational change, person-centered planning, and staff
development.
Thursday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 102 B
Randall Hengst
Rock Island, IL
edhengst@augustana.edu
Randall is an Associate Professors in the Education Department at
Augustana College, in Rock Island, IL.
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 202 D
Joan Henley
State University, AR
jhenley@astate.edu
Joan is an assistant professor of special education at Arkansas State
University. She direct the middle school secondary masters program. She
has been involved with individuals with disabilities in Missouri Texas and
Arkansas. She has been a classroom teacher and administrator, and worked
with Parents as Teachers, and in the Missouri Autism Program.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 203 E
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Joseph C. Henn
Macedonia, OH
HennPen@aol.com
Joseph holds his B.A. & M.B.A. degrees from Drake University in Des
Moines, Iowa. After a nearly forty year career as a senior executive in
the tire & rubber and
metal parts forming industries, he has become a national, regional, and
state of Ohio speaker on the subjects of school to adult life in the
community, including work, residence and recreation for persons with
significant disabilities. He has become a limited service provider for
residential services and an expert on Social Security work incentives. He
has used this expertise to develop a "Family Consortium"
residential home and a P.A.S.S./I.R.W.E. plan to fund ongoing 1:1 supports
for his daughter. At the present time he is Vice President of the Board of
a CARF accredited residential, employment and fiscal service provider, and
has served on the Ohio Autism Tash Force, writing guidelines for
transition from school to work.
Friday 2:45 pm - MIDWEST 102 D
Marilyn L. Henn
Macedonia, OH
hennpen@aol.com
Marilyn is a Registered Nurse, and has spent a large portion of her adult
life in an advocacy and teaching role on behalf of persons with
disabilities. She served seven years of her County board of Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. She activated the local Autism
Society of America chapter as well as the Autism Society of Ohio. During
her time as Chapter President, the chapter received the national award for
"Chapter Achievement". She also serves on the Ohio APSE Board
andthe Ohio Autism Task Force. She has worked at Kent State University as
the Transition Training Coordinator, working under a federally funded
outreach grant. In this capacity she taught transition to adult life to
parents and professionals. Mr. & Ms. Henn are the parents of a
daughter with severe autism, functioning by test in the bottom 10% of all
those with this disability.
Friday 2:45 pm - MIDWEST 102 D
Dana Henning
Langhorne, PA
danahenningtrainingprograms@hotmail.com
Dana has operated Dana Henning Training Programs since 1985. This is a
support service which offers consultation and training to individuals,
families and agencies. Currently, Dr. Henning is also Asst. Professor of
Special Education at Wes Chester University. Prior positions include:
Asst. Clinical Professor-College of Physicians & Surgeons-Columbia
University, Director of Education-Dual Diagnosis/Behavioral Teaming
Morristown Memorial Hospital, Director of Planning & Staff
Development-Temple University's Developmental Disabilities Center.
Thursday 2:00 pm - MIDWEST 202 A
Patricia Herdrich
West Bend, WI
herdrich@uwm.edu
Patricia is the Associate Dean, Education Outreach and is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Administrative Leadership at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a former special education teacher,
principal, director of curriculum and instruction and assistant
superintendent.
Friday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 103 D
Monique Hernandez
Kent, WA
monique@totallivingconcept.org
Monique is a graduate of University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She
works for TLC, and has been a support staff, community guide, and is
currently a program Manager. She facilitated the Parent Trust for
Washington's Children Parents group, and the Frameworks conference. As a
program manager, Monique supports individuals in living the life of their
choosing, coordinating staff support, and ensuring all the applicable
rules and regulations are met.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 103 C
Victor Hernandez
Boston, MA
victor.hernandez@state.ma.us
Victor's previous work experience includes managing residential schools
for students labeled as having multiple-disabilities. Currently, Victor is
involved in the statewide operations of the community systems in the
Commonwealth for people served y the department.
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 201 C
Karen Hoffman
Los Angeles, CA
karenlhoffman2003@yahoo.com
Karen is an inclusion facilitator within the Los Angeles Unified School
District who supports students from with a wide range of strengths and
challenges and abilities. Emphasis is on inclusive program development
within the urban school population. Educational background includes a
general education multi-subject credential, AT certification, CA special
education credential in the area of mod to severe, an Administrative
services credential, and MS and AAC required competencies. Kaen has
experience with the trans-disciplinary team approach to collaboration, the
adaptation process, and co-teaching. Karen is most excited to help develop
quality inclusion programs for children with significant challenges within
the LAUSD.
Friday 9:45 am - HILTON - WRIGHT A
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 103 D
Stacey Hoffman
Sacramento, CA
staceyah@jps.net
Stacey is a Co-Project Director of the Safe Life project, funded by U.S.
Department of Education. She has been a special education teacher for 18
years. She has presented personal safety information at numerous
in-service workshops and conferences for special education teachers,
students with disabilities and their parents. Ms. Hoffman is an active
participant on the California Victims of Crime Committee, Sacramento ARC,
Sacramento County Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory Council
and Sacramento County Committee of Developmental Disabilities
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 203 C
Pat Hollond
Milwaukee, WI
phollond@mwcinc.org
Friday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 101 D
Bonita Holman
Port Moody, BC
Friday 1:30 pm - MIDWEST 201 D
Christy Holthaus-Stuart
Rockville, MD
cstuart@transcen.org
Christy is a member of the Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for
Youth. In this position, she focuses on policy implications of workforce
development and youth with disabilities. In addition, Dr. Stuart is
currently the project director for a project that aims to link students
with disabilities to employment prior to their exiting year of school. She
is responsible for the overall implementation and oversight of the
project. Her years of experience assisting secondary-age students with
disabilities to attain a seamless transition have lead to impressive
preliminary project outcomes. She is providing a wide range of training
and technical assistance to educational professionals who provide indirect
service to youth with disabilities.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 102 B
Pat Hotchkiss-Stahl
pat.stahl@bvsd.org
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Jennifer J. House
Normal, IL
jjgrese@ilstu.eu
Jennifer is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of
Special Education, College of Education, Illinois State University.
Jennifer has taught special education for 7 years at the middle school and
high school levels in self-contained, resource, and co-teaching settings.
She served as head of the Special Education Department at a large Illinois
high school for 3 of those years. In that position, she developed training
workshops for teachers involved in co-teaching experiences, training for
paraprofessionals, and workshops involving modifying curriculum and making
accommodations. Jennifer anticipates a career in high education when she
has completed her doctoral degree.
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 203 C
Sharon Hron
Madison, WI
hronsa@dhfs.state.wi.us
Sharon is Wisconsin's Nursing Home Relocation Project Coordinator at the
Department of Health and Family Services. In this role, Sharon works
collaboratively with county social service agency personnel, advocates,
state government partners and he nursing home industry to effect positive
transitions to the community for individuals choosing to relocate. Her
main role is to assist in removing barriers that impede individuals from
relocating and to problem solve with all members of the relocation team in
various stages and issues of the relocation process. Sharon comes to this
position with 36 years experience in Long Term Care in multiple areas of
service provision and policy development, particularly for elders and
persons with a physical disability.Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 103 C
Carolyn Hughes
Nashville, TN
carolyn.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
Carolyn holds her Ph.D., and is a Professor in the Department of Special
Education and a research investigator in the John F. Kennedy Center at
Vanderbilt University. She is nationally recognized as a researcher in the
areas of self-determination, the education of high-poverty youth, and peer
support. She has directed numerous federally funded projects, written
extensively for professional journals, and authored a number of books, the
most recent of which was recently published by Allyn and Bacon : Success
for All Students: Promoting Inclusion in Secondary Schools through Peer
Buddy Programs ( 2005).
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 102 B
Friday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 203 C
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Pamela Hunt
Berkeley, CA
hunt@sfsu.edu
Pam is a Professor in the Department of Special Education at San Francisco
State University. Her research interests include inclusive education,
communication and social competence for students who experience
significant disabilities, and collaborative teaming and school
restructuring to create school communities in which all students are
valued members.
Thursday 8:30 am - HILTON - WRIGHT C
Margaret Hutchins
Normal, IL
mphutch@ilstu.edu
Margaret is an Associate Professor at Illinois State University, who has
participated for the past 7 years as a primary faculty member in the
teacher education program for serving learners with moderate, severe, and
multiple disabilities. She was formerly on the faculty at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in a non-tenure track position, teaching
and directing several federally funded grants focused on promoting
employment outcomes. Her areas of emphasis in teacher education include
the development and implementation of appropriate curricula for learners
with more significant disabilities. Prior to coming to Illinois, she was a
public school teacher and vocational specialist fro many years in
Charlottesville, VA.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Keith Hyatt
Bellingham, WA
keith.hyatt@wwu.edu
Keith is an assistant professor of special education at Western Washington
University. His research interests include inclusive programming, early
childhood special education, and legal issues.
Thursday 12:15 pm -Roundtable Luncheon
Thursday 2:00 pm - MIDWEST 203 E
Charles Hyser
Rock Island, IL
edhyser@augustana.edu
Charles is Director of Elementary Education at Augustana College. He
received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in the area
of literacy education. He is especially interested in the development of
early reading and writing an teaches methods courses in this area. He is
also interested in the effects that dialect, bilingualism, and cultural
difference have on literacy development in the elementary grades.
Friday 11:00 am - MIDWEST 202 D
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Ana C. DaSilva Iddings
Nashville, TN
chris.iddings@vanderbilt.edu
Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings is an assistant clinical professor in
education at Vanderbilt University. Her interests include inclusive
programming
and second language acquisition.
Thursday 12:15 pm - Roundtable Luncheon
Esther Ishaq
Simi Valley, CA
rednonine@earthlink.net
Friday 1:30 pm - MIDWEST 201 B
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Donald A. Jackson
Verdi, NV
djackson@src.state.nv.us
Donald is the Project Director for Positive Behavior Support-Nevada and
the Director of Psychological Services at Sierra Regional Center in Reno.
He is on the clinical faculty of the Psychology Department at the
University of Nevada, Reno. Donald obtained his Ph.D. from the University
of Utah in 1973, and was previously a clinical faculty at the University
of Kansas. His professional contributions include five instructional
books, several chapters, and numerous professional papers and
presentations. He continues to teach and provide clinical services,
especially on the design of positive behavioral supports for individuals
in community, school, and residential settings.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 102 C
Lewis B. Jackson
Greeley, CO
lewis.jackson@unco.edu
Lewis is a co-director of the National Center on Low-Incidence
Disabilities (NCLID). He is also a professor at the University of Northern
Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. His research interests include positive
behavior supports and inclusive education.
Thursday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 102 C
Karen Jackson Stindt
Oshkosh, WI 54903
kstindt@cesa6.k12.wi.us
Karen is an occupational therapist with over 25 years experience, 22 years
of which have been in the public school setting. She received her BS from
the University of Alabama in Birmingham and completed her masters at the
University of WI in Madison in 1997 with an emphasis on handwriting and
assistive technology. She provides direct and consultative OT services and
is the CESA 6 regional AT consultant for the Wisconsin Assistive
Technology Initiative. She has presented at numerous local, regional,
state and national conferences on OT and AT issues. She has taught special
education assistive technology courses at the University level and is a
guest lecturer at Institutes of Higher Education in the OT and special
education departments.
Saturday 8:30 - Ballroom D
Gail D. Jacob
Madison, WI
gdjacob@sbcglobal.net
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 103 C
Rachel Janney
Radford, VA
rjanney@radford.edu
Rachel is a professor in the Special Education Department at Radford
University in Virginia. She has worked with, and on behalf of, children
and
adults with disabilities in a number of capacities, including special
education teacher, educational consultant, researcher, and teacher
educator. She and Martha Snell have written a series of books called
Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices, which address curricular, social,
and behavioral aspects of inclusive education. Rachel teaches courses in
curriculum and methods for students with cognitive and multiple
disabilities, and supervises student interns and student teachers in a
number of schools that have a firm commitment to the full inclusion of all
students.
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 202 B
Thursday 2:00 pm - MIDWEST 102 B
Bree Jimenez
Charlotte, NC
arrow0677@carolina.rr.com
Bree Ann Jimenez is currently a Field Coordinating Teacher with the
Exceptional Children's department in Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system,
for the Teaching Reading, Writing, Math and Science to students with
Significant Cognitive Disabilities grat through the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. She is also pursuing a doctorate in Special
Education at UNCC. Bree has 6 years experience teaching students with
significant disabilities.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Jeffrey Johnson
Madison, WI
jjohnson1@wisc.edu
Jeffrey Johnson is on staff at the Waisman Center VOICES Self-Advocacy
Project. He is on the Board of Directors for the ARC Wisconsin. Jeffrey is
also a member of People First of Dane County and a voting member for the
Dane County Region for People First of Wisconsin. Jeffrey is one of the
Empowerment Course co-teachers. He is also a big Dallas Cowboys fan.
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 202 A
Christopher J. Johnstone
Minneapolis, MN
john4810@umn.edu
Christopher is a Research Associate at the Institute on Community
Integration at the University of Minnesota. He holds a PhD in Educational
Policy and Administration and a Master's Degree in Special Education. He
has fifteen ears of experience in disability-related occupations,
including research, teaching, and consulting work that has taken place in
Africa, Asia, and North America. In 2005, he will conclude two years of
service as a Scholar at the National Leadership Institute on Disability
and Students Placed at Risk.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Ben Jones
Landover Hills, MD
Ben Jones is 22 years old. Recently being transferred out of the juvenile
system, he is actively looking for employment.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 102 D
Phyllis Jones
Sarasota, FL
pjones@banshee.sar.usf.edu
Phyllis joined the University of South Florida as an assistant professor
in fall 2003. Upon earning her bachelor degree in the education of
children with severe learning disabilities Phyllis taught and was an
administrator in schools in the UK for 15 years. Her Masters in Special
Education is from Durham University. She was a faculty member of
Northumbria University for five years. Her PhD research relates to teacher
thinking about pupils with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Phyllis is a UCET/ACCTE scholar. Phyllis is co investigator of an ESRC
(UK) project that focuses upon engaging disabled people in the discourse
of inclusion. She is author of "Inclusion in the Early Years: Stories
of good practice" (200).
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 202 E
Thursday 2:00 pm - MIDWEST 103 D
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 201 B
Stephanie Jones
Knoxville, TN
sjones@knxcac.org
Stephanie is Coordinator of the Knoxville Seamless Transition Project in
Knoxville, Tennessee. She oversees all daily operations of the pilot
integrated work and community inclusion agency developed through the SFSU
Transition Service Integration Project, which partners in Tennessee with
the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Workforce Connections,
the Cerebral Palsy Center, and other Tennessee Customized Employment
Partnership (TCEP) members. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business
Management from the University of Tennessee and has over 8 years
experience working with individuals with significant support needs in
numerous settings. She has served as a team leader for both a residential
program and a supported employment program at the Cerebral Palsy Center in
Knoxville. Prior to her current position, Ms. Jones worked through TCEP to
specialize
in securing competitive.
Friday 2:45 pm - MIDWEST 102 B
Cheryl M. Jorgensen
Durham, NH
cherylj@cisunix.unh.edu
Cheryl is Project Director and Assistant Research Professor with The
Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire, a University
Center for Excellence. She currently directs a 4-year OSEP Model
Demonstration project entitled "Beyond Access: A Model that Promotes
Learning of General Education Curriculum Content for Students with
Significant Disabilities." Dr. Jorgensen coordinates two teacher
education options at the University - one that prepares Inclusion
Faciitators for K-12 schools and the other that prepares future Ph.D.
level teacher-researchers in the area of Autism Spectrum Disorders. For
the past 19 years, Dr. Jorgensen's work has focused on the restructuring
of school culture, policies, organizational structures, and teaching
practices that naturally facilitate inclusion and learning for all
students.
Wednesday 10:00 am -MIDWEST 101 C
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Julie Kardachi
New York, NY
jkardachi@touro.edu
Thursday 4:30 pm - MIDWEST 101 C
Maho Kasahara
Syracuse, NY
mkasahar@syr.edu
Maho is a person from Japan. She is currently a second year doctoral
student (Special Education, Disability Studies) at Syracuse University.
Her areas of interests include inclusive education, intimate human
relationships, and construction f human value.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 202 D
Friday 2:45 pm - MIDWEST 202 B
Christi Kasa-Hendrickson
Cedar Falls, IA
hendrick@chapman.edu
Christi is an Assistant Professor at Chapman University in Orange,
California. She has a Ph.D. in Teaching and Leadership from Syracuse
University. Her research interests center on inclusive education,
facilitated communication, and literacy opportunities for students with
significant disabilities. Christi has published several research articles
highlighting the work of successful teachers in inclusive classrooms.
Christi is also the producer of the award winning documentary, Inside the
Edge: Journey to using speech through typing.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 203 A
Liz B. Keefe
Albuquerque, NM
lkeefe@unm.edu
Liz is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at the
University of New Mexico. Liz prepares general and special education
teachers to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse
learners in the general education classroom. Liz partners with schools in
NM to implement systems change to help create schools where all children
belong and can reach their potential.
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 202 B
Sheri L. Keel
Knoxville, TN
skeel@utk.edu
Sheri has worked as an Educational Consultant for the LRE for LIFE Project
since January of 2001. As an Educational Consultant, she provides
technical assistance to schools, instructional teams of teachers, and
individual teachers in implementing best and promising educational
practices for ALL students. Sheri brings to the Project seven years of
experience as a general education teacher. As a general education
classroom teacher, she actively included students with IEPs in her classes
through collaborative and co-teaching avenues with her special education
colleagues. She is certified to teach in the state of TN and is a
certified SWIS facilitator. She is a member of the Association for
Positive Behavior Support, TASH, and the International Reading
Association. Sheri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Ed
from TN Technological University and is currently pursuing her Master's
Degree.
Thursday 9:45 am - HILTON - WRIGHT B
Shannon Kelly-Keough
Vancouver, BC CANADA
shannon@portacom.bc.ca
Shannon is the mother of two amazing daughters, Haley and Kelti. She is
also a published author and founder of Made by Mom Creations. Made by Mom
Creations produces a portable communication system (PortaCom) for children
and adults requiring augmentative and alternative communication supports.
Shannon is an inspiring speaker who is eager to share her struggles and
triumphs with other families, educators, and researchers to promote
inclusion and
quality of life for all.
Friday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 102 C
Michael Kendrick
Holyoke, MA
kendrickconsult@attglobal.net
Michael is currently an independent international consultant in human
services and community work with ongoing work in the United States,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland and
England and other countries, e.. Nicaragua, Honduras, Ethiopia, U.A.E. and
Belgium etc. His interests, involvements and writings have included
leadership, service quality, the creation of safeguards for vulnerable
persons, social integration, change, innovation, values, advocacy,the role
of individual persons and small groups in creating advances, evaluation,
alternatives to bureaucracy, personalized approaches to supporting people,
and reform in the human service field amongst others.
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 202 C
Robert Kennedy
Washington, DC
Robert is Co-President of Project ACTION! and has been a strong advocate
on behalf of people with disabilities for about 15 years. He works at
the National Labor Relations Board and serves on the Mayor's Committee on
Persons with Disabilities, the DC Fatality Review Committee, etc.
Friday 2:45 pm - MIDWEST 101 D
Sonia Kerr
Anchorage, AK
skerr@dlcak.org
Sonja is an attorney who has been practicing special education law since
1989. She is a graduate of Indiana University School of Law and also holds
a master's degree in psychology from Purdue University. Ms. Kerr has
experience representing children with disabilities at the IEP meeting
level, alternative dispute resolution, due process hearings, federal court
and appellate courts. Her interest in disabilities is lifelong; Ms. Kerr's
mother is deaf and her sister had epilepsy. She served as the chair of
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates and remains active in COPAA as
an attorney trainer and presenter.
Thursday 8:30 am - HILTON - WRIGHT A
Kim Kessler
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 102 D
Maureen Keyes
Milwaukee, WI
mkeyes@wi.rr.com
Maureen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional
Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a former
special education teacher and parent of a child with special needs. She is
the university liaison and consultant to the Milwaukee County Special
Needs
Childcare Program. She also worked in this same capacity for the LaCausa
Special Needs Childcare Program.
Friday 2:45 pm - MIDWEST 203 E
Friday 4:00 pm - MIDWEST 203 E
Kyeong-Hwa Kim
Lawrence, KS
shine72@ku.edu
Kyeong-Hwa is a doctoral student in special education at the University of
Kansas, specializing in secondary transition under the co-advisories of
Drs. Gary Clark and Mary Morningstar. She is currently working as a
graduate research assistant at the Transition Coalition. Her research
interests center around transition, partnerships with parents/families,
including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds,
person-centered planning, community inclusion, and self-determination.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Young-Gyoung Kim
Clarion, PA
ykim@clarion.edu
Young-Gyoung's specialty is physical disabilities and her area of interest
is assistive technology, alternate assessment, cultural diversity, and the
preparation of special educators to teach students with moderate and
severe disabilities. Young-Gyoung has been a member of TASH when she was a
doctoral students and she is currently teaching physical disabilities and
assessment practicum, and supervising student teachers in the department
of special education at Clarion University of PA.
Friday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 103 E
Leigh Ann Kingsbury
Wilmington, NC
kingsburyla@ec.rr.com
Leigh Ann has been working with people with disabilities for over twenty
years; including people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric
disabilities, acquired disabilities and elders. During that time, she has
worked in the non-profit sector and with several states, helping people
with histories of life-long institutionalization leave those institutions
and return to their communities, establishing the life they want through
the process of person-centered-planning. Leigh Ann has a particular
interest in planning with elders around issues of aging and communication
of end-of-life wishes. Formerly, Leigh Ann was the director of the NC
Person Centered- Planning Initiative. Presently, she is the project
manager of a statewide tchnical assistance Olmstead initiative funded by
the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities and is a
consultant in a several other states.
Thursday 12:45 pm -Roundtable Luncheon
Thursday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 203 A
Margaret Kirby
Milwaukee, WI
mkirby@chw.org
Margaret Kirby, MS, RD, is a Pediatric Dietitian at Children's Hospital of
Wisconsin who specializes in nutrition for children with special health
care needs. She received her Master's Degree in Clinical Dietetics from Mt
Mary College in Milwaukee I and has been working in pediatric nutrition
for over 20 years.
Friday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 101 C
Gonul Kircaali-Iftar
Eskisehir,
giftar@anadolu.edu.tr
Gonul holds a PhD degree in special education (University of Toronto);
works as a professor and director at the Research Institute for the
Handicapped at Anadolu University, Turkey. Her areas of interest are
applied behavior analysis, research methods in education, and providing
evidence-based instruction to children with developmental disabilities.
Thursday 2:00 pm - MIDWEST 103 D
Susan M. Klein
Nashville, IN
smklein@indiana.edu
Susan is Professor Emeritus, Indiana University School of Education. Her
research and teaching have addressed multidisciplinary professional
development in early intervention and professional-family collaboration
within special education sevice delivery systems.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Christopher Kliewer
Cedar Falls, IA
Kliewer@uni.edu
In the late 1980s, Chris taught young children labeled with autism in a
segregated school in Illinois before moving to Syracuse, NY, where he
discovered inclusive education in the form of the Jowonio School, an early
childhood center where all children learn together. After teaching at
Jowonio for three years, Chris entered the doctoral program in Teaching
& Leadership at Syracuse Univ. He worked closely with Professor Doug
Biklen, his advisor, and began his ethnographi studies of early literacy.
On graduating in 1995, Chris took his current position at the University
of Northern Iowa where he has continued to research literacy development
in inclusive early childhood programs. He is currently project director fr
a Federal Department of Education Research Grant on the development of
early literacy skills in young children with significant disabilities in
inclusive classrooms.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 203 A
Cheryl Klinger
Calgary, AB
cherylk@ddrcc.com
Cheryl has worked with adults with developmental disabilities for 9 years
providing both direct support and supervisory functions related to both
home and career support. Cheryl has been a Planning & Support
Coordinator at DDRC for the past3 years and facilitates approximately 100
Roles Based Planning meetings per year.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 201 C
Paula M. Kluth
Chicago, IL
pkluth@earthlink.net
Paula is an independent educational consultant and an adjunct instructor
at National-Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. Her professional and
research interests center on differentiating instruction and on supporting
students wth autism and significant disabilities in inclusive classrooms.
She has a M.Ed. in Educational Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of
Education and a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of
Wisconsin. She is the author of "You're Goig to Love This Kid":
Educating Students with Autism in Inclusive Classrooms (2003, Brookes
Publishing) and the lead editor of Access to Academics: Critical
Approaches to Inclusive Curriculum, Instruction, and Policy (with Doug
Biklen & Diana Straut,2003, Erlbaum Publishing). She has also written
several articles and chapters on inclusive schooling.
Thursday 3:15 pm - MIDWEST 203 A
Kathleen Kovach
Wayne, MI
kkovach@comlivserv.com
Kathleen is the Vice President of Operations at Community Living Services
(CLS), one of three managed care agencies in Metropolitan Detroit that
provides supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their
families. Having been involved in the closure of two state institutions,
she is familiar with the exciting and necessary systems changes wrought by
the movement from institutional services to community supports and
increased self-determination. Friday 8:30 am - MIDWEST 202 C
Elizabeth Kozleski
Denver, CO
Elizabeth.Kozleski@cudenver.edu
Elizabeth is a Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Colorado
at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Her expertise is in the area of
systems change, inclusive education, and professional development in urban
education. Her research interests include teacher learning in urban
education, multicultural educational practices in the classroom and the
impact of professional development schools on student and teacher
learning. Currently, she is a co-Principal Investigator (PI) for the
National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems and the
National Institute for Urban School Improvement.
Friday 4:00 pm - MIDWEST 103 D
Marla Kraus
Los Angeles, CA
marlakraus@hotmail.com
Marla is currently the Executive Director of Special Needs Advocate for
Parents (SNAP), a non-profit organization assisting parents of children
with special needs providing information, education, and referrals. SNAP
is particularly known for providing information and education on special
needs estate planning. Prior to becoming Executive Director, Ms. Kraus was
one of SNAP's original Board members. She was chosen due to her skills as
an advocate for her son Sammy, who was born in 191 with multiple
disabilities. Ms. Kraus is married to John and together they have three
children: Jake, Julia and Sammy.
Sammy passed away in 1994.
Thursday 9:45 am - MIDWEST 101 D
John
Kretzmann
John
(Jody) is Co-Director of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)
Institute, a research project of the Institute for Policy Research at
Northwestern
University
. ABCD Institute works with community building leaders across
North America
as well as five other continents to conduct research, produce materials
and otherwise support community-based efforts to rediscover local
capacities and to mobilize citizens’ resources to solve problems. The
Institute continues to build on the stories and methods about successful
community building reported in the popular book, Building Communities from
the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s
Assets (1993, with John L. McKnight.)
Wednesday
10:00 am -
MIDWEST
103 C
Salam Kuaidar
Long Beach, CA
salamk143@aol.com
Salam Kuaidar is a graduate student at California State University, Long
Beach in the Master of Science in Special Education program. Ms. Kuaidar
is of Middle Eastern descent and so was interested in examining how
families of a similar background faed when they had a child with a
disability as little information on this was available in the literature.
Her understanding of the culture and language were essential to the
successful collection of the rich data set used for this study.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Richard Kubina
University Park, PA
rmk11@psu.edu
Richard Kubina is an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State
University. He is interested in direct instruction, precision teaching,
applied
behavior analysis, and autism. Dr. Kubina is a Board Certified Behavior
Analyst.
Saturday 8:30 am - MIDWEST BALLROOM D
Norman Kunc
Nanaimo, BC
axis@islands.net
Norman is an activist and speaker who, for 20 years, has been working to
ensure that people with disabilities are able to take their rightful place
in schools, workplaces, and communities. His initial advocacy focused on
the educational rights. More recently he has focused on how schools and
communities can utilize the diversity of people to build a sense of
belonging, and avoid a climate of allegiance, which results from
stratification, competition, and group identification.
Wednesday 10:00 am - MIDWEST 101B
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