U.S. Department of Education
Ex-Officio

Robert Pasternack, Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Stephanie Lee, Director, Office of Special Education Programs

Louis Danielson, Director, Office of Special Education Programs, Research-to-Practice Division

Consumer/Advocacy Group

Mary Ann Siller, Director, National Education Program, American Foundation for the Blind, Dallas, Texas

Paul Schroeder, Vice President of Government Relations, American Foundation for the Blind, Washington, DC

Curtis Chong, Director of Field Operations and Access Technology, Iowa Department for the Blind, Des Moines, Iowa

Mark Richert, Executive Director, Association for Education & Rehabilitation of the Blind & Visually Impaired, Alexandria, VA

Melanie Brunson, Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs. American Council of the Blind, Washington, DC

Barbara Cheadle, President, National Organization of Parents of Blind Children, a Division of the NFB, Baltimore, MD

Robin Church, Assistant Vice President for Education, Learning Disabilities Association, Executive Director, Kennedy Krieger School, Baltimore, MD

Randall Boone, Council for Learning Disabilities, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Sheldon Horowitz, Director of Professional Services, National Center for Learning Disabilities, New York, NY

Alice Parker, Assistant Superintendent and Director Special Education, California Department of Education, National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Sacramento, CA

Susan LaVenture, Executive Director, National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI), Watertown, MA

Muffi Lavigne, Information and Referral Coordinator, United Cerebral Palsy Association (UCPA), Washington, DC

Michael M. Behrman, Professor, Graduate School of Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Michael Wehmeyer, Associate Professor, Special Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Irvin Shapell, Publisher, Woodbine House, Bethesda, MD

Donna Palley, Concord School District, Concord, NH

Jim Allan, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Austin, TX

John D. Kemp, Esq., President & CEO, HalfthePlanet Foundation

NCAC Project Officer

Bonnie Jones, Education Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs

CAST/National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC)

Chuck Hitchcock, NCAC Project Director
David Rose, NCAC Principal Investigator
Bob Dolan, Project Technical Support
CAST, Wakefield, MA

Technical Group

Joe Sullivan, President, Duxbury Systems, Inc., Westford, MA

Larry Skutchan, Technology Project Leader, The American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., Louisville, KY

Eileen Curran, Vice President for Education Services
Bill Raeder (Jan 7 mtg.), President, National Braille Press, Boston, MA

James Pritchett, Project Manager, Digital Audio Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Princeton, NJ

Steve McBride, Chair, Electronic Instructional Materials Committee, National Association of State Textbook Administrators, West Virginia Department of Education, E. Charleston, WV

Kim Hartsell, Project Director, Georgia Project for Assistive Technology, Forest Park, GA

Melonie C. Warfel, Director, World Wide Standards, Adobe Systems, Inc., McLean, VA

Gary Moulton, Microsoft Accessible Technology Group, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

Madeleine Rothberg, Director of Research and Development, National Center for Accessible Media, WGBH, Boston, MA

Michael Moodie, Research and Development Officer, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Rick Ferrie, Vice President/General Manager, Mazer Corporation, Boston, MA

Gene Golovchinsky, Sr. Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

Dave A. Schleppenbach, ghBraille, LLC, Purdue Technology Center, West Lafayette, IN

Martin Hensel, President, Texterity Inc., Southborough, MA

Feasibility Group

Skip Stahl, CAST, Inc., Wakefield, MA

John Roberts, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD

Margaret E. Bausch, Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Steve Driesler, Executive Director, School Division, Association of American Publishers, Washington, DC

Pearce McNulty, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA

Alex Mlawsky, Glencoe/McGraw Hill, Columbus, OH

George Kerscher, Senior Officer, Accessible Information, DAISY Consortium, Open Ebook Forum, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Missoula, MT

Martha Minow, Harvard Children’s Initiative, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA