Anne Meyer

  Co-Executive Director, CAST
  E-mail: cast@cast.org
  

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As a founder and Co-Executive Director of CAST, Dr. Anne Meyer draws upon her long-term focus on psychological aspects of learning and learning disability to develop ways to use computers to build and support competence and self-esteem. A licensed clinical psychologist, she has specialized for the last 20 years in work with children and adults who have learning disabilities. Dr. Meyer has played a key role in the design of CAST's multimedia technology and is presently focusing on refining and disseminating CAST's ideas about Universal Design for Learning through writing and Web site development. With Dr. David Rose, she co-authored the seminal Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning (ASCD, 2002) and Learning to Read in the Computer Age (Brookline, 1998) in the Jeanne Chall series. Widely recognized for her contributions in the field of technology as it relates to disabilities, Dr. Meyer has served on the Texas Task Force on Electronic Textbook Accessibility and as a national advisor to President Clinton's Educational Technology Panel. In 1995, she received a Gold Medal from the National Association of Social Sciences for her work at CAST. Dr. Anne Meyer completed her undergraduate work at Radcliffe College and received her master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Selected Publications Rose, D. H. & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching every student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Rose, D. & Meyer, A. (2000). Universal design for individual differences. Educational Leadership, 58 (3), 39-43. Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2000). The Future is in the Margins: The Role of Technology and Disability in Educational Reform (a paper prepared under contract to the American Institutes for Research on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology) Meyer, A. & Rose, D. H. (1998). Learning to read in the Computer Age. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books.