Meet the NCDDR Staff

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John Westbrook, Director of the NCDDR and the Special Education and Rehabilitation Services Program, has been with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) since 1982. A recent project, the Regional Rehabilitation Exchange, began a national movement towards the development of a regional information exchange network. Before coming to SEDL, he served as a consultant and a staff development specialist for several state agencies and worked as a teacher/coordinator at the Texas School for the Deaf. He holds three degrees from The University of Texas at Austin: a B.S. in Speech with a major in Education of the Deaf/Hearing Impaired, an M.S. in Special Education with a major in Language/Learning Disorders, and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration with a major in Special Education Administration. His current interests include strategies for the effective dissemination and utilization of disability-related information.

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Lin Harris, Information Services Technician, has been with the Special Education and Rehabilitation Services Program at SEDL since 1987. She also worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Resources for School Improvement group in SEDL's regional educational laboratory. Ms. Harris is an interpreter for the hearing impaired. Before coming to SEDL, she worked as interpreter coordinator for a three-campus junior college, sign language instructor, and then as a secretary and vocational communication specialist for the Texas Rehabilitation Commission. Her current interests include accessible formats for informational materials and the management of multiple and relational databases.

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Joann Starks, Research Associate, began working at SEDL in 1995. She is a doctoral candidate at The University of Texas at Austin in Special Education Administration, with an emphasis in Bilingual Special Education. Ms. Starks worked with Title VII-funded centers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of New Mexico before returning to graduate school. She worked in community development projects in Costa Rica, and also completed an internship at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). Ms. Starks holds a B.A. in Sociology and a Master of Arts in Social/Multicultural Foundations of Education (Bilingual Education) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her current interests include state policies for language-minority students with disabilities, the Internet and other electronic dissemination information systems.

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