Degrees
| B. S. in Education | Temple University |
| M. A. in Leadership* | California State University, Northridge (CSUN) |
| Ed. D. in Educational Psychology and Administration | University of Southern California |
*National Scholarship Winner, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Washington, DC
WorkHistory
· Teacher, Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
· Researcher in Deafness, John Tracy Clinic, Los Angeles
· Principal, Southwest School for the Deaf, Lawndale, California
· Assistant Director, National Center on Deafness, CSUN
· Full Professor, Educational Administration, CSUN
· Consultant to The Grantsmanship Center, Los Angeles
· Founder and Director, Center On Disabilities, California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
· Retired from CSUN on 31 March 2000
Accomplishments
· Author and Principal Investigator of more than a dozen funded projects totaling more than ten million dollars in the areas of curriculum, evaluation, deafness, deaf-blindness, learning disabilities, telecommunications, and technology
· Full Professor, Educational Administration. Taught grantsmanship, grants management, and program evaluation to national scholarship winners in the National Leadership Training Program in the Area of Deafness, 1972 - 1979
· As a consultant to The Grantsmanship Center, trained more than 2,000 persons in grants and grants management in 100, one-week long training programs in 39 states, 1980 -1983
· Program evaluator for Guam State Tech Act, University of Guam
· Keynote speaker on technology and disability: Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Sweden, England, Greece, Chile, and Guam
· Planner of, and speaker at, conferences on technology and disability in London, Vienna, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, Ireland, and all over theUnited States
· Author of 30 juried publications, scores of conference papers around the world; editor of ten conference Proceedings on technology and disability
· Producer and Director of radio show, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities," Los Angeles, Radio Stations KIEV and KCSN
· Founder and Director of the conference, "Technology and Persons with Disabilities," Los Angeles. More than 3,500 participants, 130 exhibitors, 300 speakers in 1999. Now in its fourteenth year.
· Founder and Director of the conference, "Virtual Reality and Persons with Disabilities," San Francisco. Conducted this conference in applications of virtual reality to the field of disability, 1993-1995.
· Director of the conference, "Voice Input/Output and Persons with Disabilities," Palm Springs, CA, 1992
· Creator of "Leadership and Technology Management" (LTM) training program
· Director, “AssistiveTechnology Applications Certificate Program” (ATACP), offered across the United States and in Ireland
· Chair, "The Technology Group," a critical mass of CSUN programs and personnel centered around the common denominator of technology
· Grant proposal reviewer for state and federal government programs
· National recognition from the National Council on Disability for "outstanding leadership and services in the use of technology for people with disabilities
· Media Access Award of Excellence, California Governor's Commitee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities
· Award of Excellence, Los Angeles County Commission on Disabilities
· Retired from position as Founder and Director, Center on Disabilities,
March 31, 2000
· Member, Advisory Board, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design, University of Wisconsin, TRACE Center
· Member, Advisory Board, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Duke University, NC
· International Spokesperson for Pulse Data International of Christchurch, New Zealand (products for people with low vision) and HumanWare of Loomis, California (products for people who are blind)