Speakers

Kyle Higgins is a professor of special education in the Department of Educational and Clinical Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Her research interests focus on the use of technology with students with disabilities in the educational setting. To that end, she has created digital basal readers, designed a software evaluation tool to evaluate software for use with students with disabilities, and explored the use of social media with students with emotional behavior disorders. She is the past co-editor of the Journal of Special Education Technology (published by the Technology and Media Division of the Council for Exceptional Children) and is the current co-editor of Intervention in School and Clinic (published by Sage Publishers and the Hammill Institute on Disabilities). She currently is co-project director of Project CULTURED, a U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs project to train future leaders in special education (doctoral students). She recently completed three federally funded projects: Project CONNECT to focus on training educators to work with students with autism and intellectual disabilities, Project GROW to train educators to unwrap common core standards to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities in 9th grade biology, and the HQ3 Project to embed evidence-based practices into all phases of the Master's Degree program.

Randall Boone is a professor of educational computing and technology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His research interests primarily have focused on computer-mediated teaching and learning for persons with disabilities, assistive technology, and instructional design of digital learning. Dr Boone is joint editor of the journal, Intervention in School and Clinic, which focuses on students with learning disabilities, emotional behavioral disorders, and autism. He is the past editor of Journal of Special Education Technology, the research journal of the Technology and Media Division of the Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Boone has been awarded multiple grants from the U.S. Department of Education through the Office of Special Education Programs (technology research with students with disabilities), the Office of Post-Secondary Education (Fulbright-Hays program for foreign study), and the State of Nevada (school-to-careers program). Dr Boone has served as Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at UNLV and as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education at UNLV.