- Academic Background     

Current Appointments

Director
• INDEX Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
• INDEX Technical Services, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center                           

Director of Technology (Assistive Technology, Information/Dissemination, Online Learning)
• Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
• Interdisciplinary Technical Assistance Center (ITAC) on Autism and Developmental Disabilities
• University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)

Co-Director
• Disabilities Interstitial, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Faculty
• Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental & Related Disabilities (LEND) Graduate Program
• Department of Family Medicine & Community Health
• Suffolk University Moakley Center for Public Management
•Academic Accommodations Committee

Invited Expert, World Wide Web Consortium

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force
• Low Vision Accessibility Task Force
• Silver Community Group

Member
• Association of Applied Behavior Analysts International
• Massachusetts Association for Applied Behavior Analysts
• Accessibility Experience (AX) Working Group, Blackboard Partnership Program
• Board of Directors, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Massachusetts Chapter
• Boston Accessibility Group (Co-Founder, International-Conference Organizer, Presenter)
• Management Team, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
• International Association of Accessibility Professionals
• Visually Impaired and Blind User Group (VIBUG)

Licensure

• Licensed Applied Behavior Analyst

Professional and Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven Web text simplification on a mass scale
• Methodology for humans to easily and reliably create simplified Web text.
• Information and communications technology (ICT) accessibility for people with disabilities
• ICT accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, e.g., autism & intellectual disability
• Instructional design of online courses and learning-management systems
• Improving the use of digital technology by people with autism & intellectual disability
• Application of information technology in human services

Provider of Technology Services for Medical-School Managed Projects

INDEX Program
• Information & Referral for People with Disabilities in Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Network of Information Providers (MNIP)
• Application Development (Web, Database, Mobile) for People with Disabilities
• E-learning Development Accessible to People with Disabilities
Mass Health Accessibility and Universal Readability
• MassHealth Web Site
Massachusetts Child & Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)
• CANS Training & Certification
Massachusetts Aging and Disabilities Information Locator
• MADIL Web Site
Massachusetts Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative (PCMHI)
• Online Courses for Primary-Care Physician Practices
Massachusetts Balancing Incentive Program (Long-Term Services & Supports)
• Mass Options Web Site
One Care: MassHealth plus Medicare (Long-Term Services & Supports)
• Online Courses and Webinars for Primary-Care Professional Staff
Pennsylvania Office of Developmental Programs
• My ODP Learning Management System

Presentations

International

• Cognitive Web Accessibility & Artificial Intelligence, Webinar, International Association of Accessibility Professionals, Atlanta, GA 2018.
• How to Make Learning More Accessible and Inclusive Webinar, Worldwide, Lambda Solutions Headquarters: Vancouver, BC Canada 2018.
• Text Simplification and User Experience
18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
The Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto, Canada, 2016.
• Automated Web Text Simplification: Pilot Study & IBM Watson Supercomputer
Cognitive & Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force, W3C
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), London, England, 2015.
National
• Cognitive Web Accessibility and Automated Text Simplification
Tech Supports for Cognition and Learning: Everyday Apps and Emerging Trends
Mercy College Campus, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 2017.
• Cognitive Web Accessibility: W3C Task Force & Future Research
30th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference
California State University, Northridge, San Diego, CA, 2015.
• Work to Establish Cognitive Web Accessibility Guidelines by the World Wide Web
Consortium & by the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2014.
• Using Technology to Enhance Teaching, Learning, and Building a Community
Using Technology to Meet Special Needs at College and Beyond Special Interest
Group, University Business Technology / Vanishing Boundaries-Emerging
Opportunities Conference, Orlando, FL, 2013.
Regional
• Creating Simple Web Text for People with Intellectual Disabilities and to Train Artificial Intelligence, Boston Accessibility Conference, Fidelity Investments Corporate Headquarters, Boston, MA. 2018
• Accessibility Guidelines for the Web and Other Digital Technologies, UMass Second Annual 5-University Accessibility Retreat, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 2018.

• Cognitive Web Accessibility: Eye Tracking, Machine Learning, and App Development, Boston Accessibility Conference, IBM Watson Health Global Headquarters, Cambridge, MA, 2017.
• Web Accessibility Roundtable, Second Annual User Experience Innovation Symposium,
Worcester Polytechnic University, Worcester, MA 2018.
• First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robot-Mediated Behavior Intervention
UMASS Lowell, New England Robotics Experimentation and Validation Center
Lowell, MA, 2017.
• Automated ICT Text Simplification for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Boston Accessibility Group, IBM Innovation Center, Cambridge, MA, 2015.
• Task Force on Higher Education for Students with Intellectual Disability and
Autism Spectrum Disorder,
Massachusetts Joint Committee on Higher Education, Worcester, MA, 2014.
• Developing Online Courses & a Delivery Platform for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Boston Accessibility Group, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge, MA, 2012.
• Technology Development & Information and Referral for People with Disabilities
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Waltham, MA, 2012.