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Heidi Silver-Pacuilla is a senior research analyst at American Institutes for Research (AIR) (http://www.air.org/) in Washington, DC, where she is also the deputy director of the National Center for Technology Innovation (http://www.nationaltechcenter.org/). Heidi's research and technical assistance work at AIR has focused on applying best practice research from the special education literature to digital environments for students of all ages with disabilities. She has delivered many national presentations and published several articles and chapters on teaching youth and adults with disabilities, particularly those who struggle with literacy. She was the recipient of a Mary Switzer Fellowship from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research to study the introduction of assistive technology into adult education programming and the recipient of the AERA Early Scholar Award from the Adult Literacy and Adult Education SIG, 2005.