Debra Hart is the Director of the Education and Transition Team for the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She serves as the Principal Investigator for the NIDRR funded Center on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, the ADD funded Consortium on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities and Office of Postsecondary Education funded National Coordinating Center. Debra has over 25 years of experience working with youth and adults with disabilities, their families, faculty, and professionals that support youth in becoming contributing valued members of their community via participation in… inclusive secondary and postsecondary education, and competitive employment. Since 1997, Ms. Hart has directed five federal grants designed to create access to postsecondary education for youth with intellectual disabilities.
Paul Wehman, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Virginia and Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports at Virginia Commonwealth University. Internationally recognized for his service and scholarly contributions in the fields of special education, psychology, and vocational rehabilitation, Dr. Wehman received the 1990 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation Award in Mental Retardation and the Distinguished Service Award from the President's Committee on Employment for Persons with Disabilities in October 1992. He is the author or editor of more than 150 books, research monographs,… journal articles, and chapters in the areas of traumatic brain injury, mental retardation, supported employment, and special education. He also is Editor of the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, an international journal published by IOS Press.