Heidi Silver-Pacuilla

Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Ph.D., senior research analyst, is the deputy director of NCTI as well as a task leader for implementation support on the Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd, www.citeducation.org). Both NCTI and CITEd are funded by the Office of Special Education Programs. She is also a project director on a technical assistance project to investigate online learning for adult literacy students, funded by the National Institute for Literacy. Her research and technical assistance work has focused on applying best practice research from the special education literature to digital environments for students of all ages with disabilities. She has delivered many presentations and published several articles and chapters on teaching youth and adults with disabilities, particularly those who struggle with literacy. At AIR, she has also been involved in developing and teaching a distance learning course on accommodating adults with disabilities for adult educators for CalPro (www.calpro-online.org) and developing an online warehouse of adult education standards. Prior to working at AIR, she was the recipient of a Mary Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research to study the introduction of assistive technology into adult education programming for adults with learning disabilities. She is also the recipient of the AERA Early Scholar Award from the Adult Literacy and Adult Education SIG, 2005.