National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard Report -- Version 1.0

National File Format Technical Panel
Contact List

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.

NCAC Project Officer

• Bonnie Jones, Education Program Specialist, Office of Special Education Programs

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

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

Consumer/Advocacy Group

• Mary Ann Siller, Director, National Education Program, American Foundation for the Blind, Dallax, TX
• Paul Schroeder, Vice President of Government Relations, American Foundation for the Blind, Washington, D.C.
• John D. Kemp, President/CEO, HalfthePlanet Foundation, Washington, D.C.
• Curtis Chong, Director of Field Operations and Access Technology, Iowa Department for the Blind, Des Moines, IA
• 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, D.C.
• Barbara Cheadle, President, National Organization of Parents of Blind Children, Division of the NFB, Baltimore, MD
• Robin Church, Assistant Vice President for Education Learning Disabilities Association, Executive Director of Kennedy Krieger School, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD
• Randall Boone, Council for Learning Disabilities, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Education, Las Vegas, NV
• Sheldon Horowitz, Director of Professional Services, National Center for Learning Disabilities, New York, NY
• Barbara Raimondo, J.D., Director of Public Affairs, American Society for Deaf Children, Washington Grove, MD
• Alice Parker, Assistant Superintendent and Director Special Education, National Association of State Directors of Special Education, California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA
• Susan LaVenture, Executive Director, National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI), Watertown, MA
• Gus Estrella, Policy Analyst, United Cerebral Palsy Association (UCPA), Washington, D.C.
• Muffi Lavigne, Information and Referral Coordinator, United Cerebral Palsy Association (UCPA), Washington, D.C.
• 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
• Jim Allan, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Austin, TX

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, Education Services, National Braille Press, Boston, MA
• Bill Raeder, 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, East Charleston, WV
• Charles E. Mayo, Assistant Division Director/ Distribution/Accessible Textbooks, Texas Education Agency, Textbook Administration Division, Austin, TX
• Kim Hartsell, Project Director, Georgia Project for Assistive Technology, Forest Park, GA
• Greg Pisocky, Business Development Manager Adobe Systems, Inc., Vienna, 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, Boston, MA
• Michael Moodie, Research and Development Officer, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Washington, D.C.
• 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, West Lafayette, IN
• Martin Hensel, President, Texterity Inc., Southborough, MA

Feasibility Group

• Skip Stahl, Co-Director, Universal Learning Center, CAST, Wakefield, MA
• John Roberts, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 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, D.C.
• 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