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Name

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Email

Name

Alicia Ayles

Alicia Ayles

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Access Consultant (CDCI CARES Team)

  • Pediatric hearing loss and aural habilitation

Email

alicia.ayles@uvm.edu

Name

Jayson Capobianco

Jayson Capobianco

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Family Resources Consultant / Postsecondary Transition Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Postsecondary transition planning and services
  • Adult developmental services
  • Self-determination
  • Advocacy

Email

Name

Phoebe Chestna: a white woman in her late sixties, with straight gold-brown hair worn loose, stands in front of greenery in an atrium. She wears a purple floral scarf draped loosely around her neck.

Phoebe Chestna

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Occupational Therapy Consultant, Vermont I-Team

Occupational Therapy

Email

phoebe.chestna@uvm.edu

Name

Rachel Cronin

Rachel Cronin, M.A.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Business Manager & Infrastructure Core Function Coordinator

  • CDCI Business Manager
  • Human Resources Manager
  • NIRS Data Coordinator
  • Infrastructure Core Function Coordinator

Email

Rachel.Cronin@uvm.edu

Name

A white woman in her mid-forties, with loose blonde hair falling to her shoulders, stands smiling confidently in a field of sunflowers, under a pale and summery sky.

Pamela Cummings

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (I-Team Early Intervention Project) and Physical Therapy Consultant

Email

pamela.cummings@uvm.edu

Name

Bryan Dague

Bryan Dague, Ed.D.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (Think College VT; Supported Employment), and Research Assistant Professor

  • Education/Special Education
  • Disability Studies
  • Rehabilitation Counseling
  • Sheltered Workshop Conversion
  • Supported Employment
  • Transition Planning

Email

bryan.dague@uvm.edu

Name

Chelsea Deraway: Middle aged Caucasian woman grinning and standing outside with a blue shirt and long light brown hair.

Chelsea Deraway, M.S.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Communication Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Augmentative Communication

Email

Chelsea.Deraway@uvm.edu

Name

Anne-Marie Dubie

Anne-Marie Dubie

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Program Support (Building Effective Strategies for Teaching Students: BEST)

Email

anne.dubie@uvm.edu

Name

Jackie Feiss

Jacqueline Feiss, MA

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Education/Special Education
  • Transition Services
  • Inclusion Facilitation

Email

Jacqueline.Feiss@uvm.edu

Name

Lisa Gaiotti

Lisa Gaiotti, M.Ed.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Elementary Education
  • Special Education
  • Instensive Special Education

Email

Lisa.Gaiotti@uvm.edu

Name

Helene Gallagher

Helene Gallagher

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

Email

Helene.M.Gallagher@uvm.edu

Name

Michael Giangreco profile photo: an older white man with short white hair, glasses, and full white beard and mustache stands smiling proudly in front of a red brick building and a lush green tree.

Michael F. Giangreco, Ph.D.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (EVOLVE Plus), and Professor

Special Education

Email

michael.giangreco@uvm.edu

Name

A pale-skinned androgynous woman, wearing dark hair in a braid over one shoulder and large, heavy-framed glasses, stares directly into the camera with the hint of a smile.

Audrey Homan, M.A.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Web, Communications, and Acccessibility

  • Web accessibility
  • Website best practices
  • WordPress
  • Podcast and radio production

Email

choman@uvm.edu

Name

Pamela Hoover

Pam Hoover

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Access Consultant (CDCI CARES Team)

Email

pamela.hoover@uvm.edu

Name

Nicole Howrigan, a blonde white woman in her late twenties, smiles confidently at the camera. Her hair is pulled back in a loose ponytail and she stands outside, in front of a tree trunk.

Nicole Howrigan, MS, CCC-SLP

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Access Consultant (CDCI CARES Team)

Email

cdcicares.team@uvm.edu

Name

Jennifer Hurley

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director of Early Education/Early Childhood Special Education Undergraduate Program & Associate Professor

  • CDCI Affiliated Faculty Researcher: Education
  • Disability and Inclusion
  • Early Childhood
  • English Language Learners
  • Special Education
  • Teacher Education

Email

jennifer.hurley@uvm.edu

Name

Sarah Kinor

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

ASL/Bilingual Education Consultant (CDCI CARES Team)

Translation, literature, alternative learning methodologies, and teaching writing to Deaf students.

Email

sarah.kinor@uvm.edu

Name

Ken Kramberg

Ken Kramberg, M.Ed.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Member & Trainer (Building Effective Strategies for Teaching Students: BEST)

Email

kenkramberg@gmail.com

Name

A smiling white woman with wavy, honey-brown hair in a bob, stands in front of a ficus tree and fireplace. She is wearing a smart blazer and checkered work blouse. Valerie LeClair

Valerie LeClair

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Referral Specialist

  • Special Education
  • Technical Assistance Coordination

Email

valerie.leclair@uvm.edu

Name

Chayah Lichtig

Chayah Lichtig

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (Vermont Continence Project), and Occupational Therapist (I-Team Early Intervention Project)

  • Continence & Toileting
  • Feeding & Eating
  • Early Intervention

Email

Chayah.Lichtig@uvm.edu

Name

Winnie Looby

Winnie Looby, Ph.D.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Academic Core Function Coordinator & Lecturer

  • Disability Studies
  • Education/Special Education
  • Education: Early Intervention/Early Childhood
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Person with a disability or special health care need
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

Email

winnie.looby@uvm.edu

Name

Paula Manzi

Paula Manzi

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Family Resources Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

Email

paula.manzi@uvm.edu

Name

Darren McIntyre

Darren McIntyre

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (multiple)

  • Curriculum & Assessment
  • Curriculum Audit
  • Peer Mediation
  • Consultative Services

Email

Darren.McIntyre@uvm.edu

Name

Adrienne Miao: 39 year old Asian-American woman with shoulder length brown hair standing outside with trees in the background..

Adrienne Miao

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (PedsProVT), Occupational Therapy Consultant (I-Team; Vermont Continence Project), CDCI Services Core Coordinator

  • family occupation
  • children’s experiences of disability
  • knowledge translation

Email

adrienne.miao@uvm.edu

Name

Hope Moulton

Hope Moulton

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Access Consultant (CDCI CARES Team)

Email

hope.moulton@uvm.edu

Name

Tammy Myers

Tammy Myers

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Special Education
  • Intensive Special Education

Email

tammy.myers@uvm.edu

Name

Maureen Nevers

Maureen Nevers, M.S.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Augmentative Communication Consultant & Research Associate

Augmentative Communication Consultant, Vermont I-Team

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Augmentative Communication

Email

maureen.d.nevers@uvm.edu

Name

Margaret Overman, AudD., CCC-A. A smiling white woman with blonde hair flowing over one shoulder. She is looking directly into the camera in a friendly manner.

Margaret Overman, Au.D., CCC-A

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Co-Director (CDCI CARES Team)

Email

margaret.overman@uvm.edu

Name

Brianna Owens

Brianna Owen

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Access Consultant

Email

brianna.owen@uvm.edu

Name

Stirling Peebles

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Dissemination Assistant (Think College Vermont)

  • Social Media
  • Video Editing

Email

stirling.peebles@uvm.edu

Name

Kathleen Raymond

Kathleen Raymond

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Business Support Generalist

Email

kathleen.d.raymond@uvm.edu

Name

Valerie Richardson

Valerie Richardson

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Family Resources Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Psychology
  • General education
  • Special education

Email

valerie.richardson@uvm.edu

Name

Tracy Roux

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

AT Access Specialist (Vermont Assistive Technology Tryout Center)

  • Assistive Technology
  • Assistive Technology Access

Email

Tracy.Roux@uvm.edu

Name

Susan Ryan

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Retired CDCI Director

Email

Name

Justin MH Salisbury: a mixed race man with pale features, in his early thirties, wearing wire-framed glasses and a flat cap, smiles confidently at the camera, holding a white cane against his shoulder.

Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury (he/him/his)

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Systems of power
  • The reproduction of social hierarchies
  • Sexual violence among disproportionately affected communities, including Indigenous people and people with disabilities

Email

justin.salisbury@uvm.edu

Name

Sherry Schoenberg: a white woman in her late fifties with straight blonde hair falling to her shoulders, and dark glasses.

Sherry Schoenberg

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Member & Trainer (Building Effective Strategies for Teaching Students: BEST)

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Email

sherry.schoenberg@uvm.edu

Name

Mary-Ellen Seaver-Reid

Mary-Ellen Seaver-Reid, M.Ed., ATP

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Educational Technical Assistance
  • Inclusive Education
  • Intensive Special Education
  • Assistive Technology

 

Email

mary-ellen.seaver-reid@uvm.edu

Name

Katharine Shepherd, Ed.D.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

CDCI Affiliated Faculty Researcher

  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Collaboration; Educational Policy
  • Family Studies; Leadership
  • Reading Education and Literacy
  • Research Methods; Response to Intervention (RTI)
  • Social Justice; Special Education
  • Teacher Education

Email

Katharine.Shepherd@uvm.edu

Name

Amy Starble: a pale-skinned woman in her mid forties, with long brown wavy hair worn loose and down, smiles invitingly in front of a sunlit field of sunflowers. A large, open sunflower hangs over her head.

Amy Starble, M.S.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Augmentative Communication Consultant (I-Team Early Intervention Project; Vermont I-Team)

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Email

amy.starble@uvm.edu

Name

A bald white man in his early forties, wearing an open-collared pale blue shirt under a gray blazer, grins openly at the camera.

Jesse Suter

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

CDCI Executive Director, Project Director (multiple) and Research Associate Professor

  • Wraparound process
  • Special education service delivery
  • Disability and inclusion
  • Interdisciplinary coordination
  • Mental health

Email

jesse.suter@uvm.edu

Name

Scottie Taylor, DPT

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Physical Therapist (Vermont Early Mobility Project)

Email

Scottie.Taylor@uvm.edu

Name

Cassandra Townshend: a white woman in her early forties, with green eyes and straight blonde hair falling to her shoulders, looks directly into the camera with a quiet, confident smile. She is wearing a business suit and standing in front of an arched window.

Cassandra Townshend, Ed.D.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (Project AWARE) and Project Co-Director (Building Effective Strategies for Teaching Students: BEST)

  • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  • Special Education Service Delivery
  • Social-Emotional Learning

Email

cassandra.townshend@uvm.edu

Name

Amy Wheeler-Sutton: Amy is female, has medium length brown hair, brown eyes, white skin, and is in her thirties. She has a starfish necklace and blue patterned dress on. The photo is taken outdoors in the sun.

Amy Wheeler-Sutton, M.Ed

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Co-Director (Building Effective Strategies for Teaching Students: BEST)

  • Education/Special Education
  • School Counseling
  • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  • Social-Emotional Learning

Email

amy.wheeler-sutton@uvm.edu

Name

Tammy Willey: A white, feminine middle-aged woman with long brown hair smiles generously at the camera. She's standing in front of a pair of vibrant, large-leaved plants and a wide window showing a low windowed university hall outside.

Tammy Willey

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Family Resources Consultant (Vermont I-Team; Vermont I-Team Early Intervention)

  • Family/Parent/Youth Advocacy
  • Family Resources Consultant

Email

tammy.willey@uvm.edu

Name

Ben Wimett

Benjamin Wimett

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

AT Access Specialist (Vermont Assistive Technology Tryout Center)

  • Assistive Technology
  • Assistive Technology Access

Email

benjamin.wimett@uvm.edu

Name

Valerie F. Wood

Valerie Wood, Ph.D.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Research and Evaluation Core Function Coordinator, & Research Assistant Professor

  • Research and Evaluation
  • Positive Youth Development
  • Delinquincy Prevention
  • Community Psychology
  • Conflict Resolution

Email

valerie.wood@uvm.edu

Name

Lisa Woodward

Lisa Woodward, M.S.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Educational Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Complex Educational Needs
  • Special Education
  • Low Incidence Disability Education
  • Assistive Technology

Email

lisa.woodward@uvm.edu

Name

Tamra Yandow

Tamra Yandow

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Project Director (Vermont Early Mobility Project), and Physical Therapy Consultant (Vermont I-Team)

  • Physical Therapy 
  • Pediatric Physical Therapy

Email

tamra.yandow@uvm.edu