Elizabeth A. Lahm, Ph.D., is the Director of the Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative, which is a statewide technical assistance project funded by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Before moving to Wisconsin she taught in classrooms for students with severe disabilities for eight years in Minnesota and California. She received her Bachelors degree from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota and her Masters degree from the California State University at Los Angeles. In 1988 Liz completed her Ph.D. in Special Education Technology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She has directed assistive technology research projects in for-profit and university settings. Most recently she was the coordinator of the assistive technology graduate program at the University of Kentucky. She was also Principal Investigator of several research and development projects in assistive technology, both within the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling and the Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky. Liz is a Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) certified Assistive Technology Practitioner. In her ‘spare time’ she enjoys quilting, doll-making, and reading.

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