Biographical note

Roger J. Stancliffe, PhD FAAIDD FIASSIDD is Professor of Intellectual Disability at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Disability Research and Policy.  He has an ongoing 25-year affiliation with the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota. His applied research focuses on making a difference in the everyday lives of people with intellectual and developmental disability, ranging from research on transition to work to studies on ageing.  His interests include participation, choice, self-determination, support, and the operation of service systems. He has published extensively and has presented papers at research conferences in five continents.  Professor Stancliffe edited the Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability from 2003 to 2008. He is the recipient of the 2011 AAIDD Research Award. His most recent book is Transition to retirement: A guide to inclusive practice.

Michael L. Wehmeyer, PhD is the Ross and Marianna Beach Distinguished Professor in Special Education and Chair, Department of Special Education, University of Kansas. He is also Director and Senior Scientist at the Beach Center on Disability, also at KU. His research focuses on issues pertaining to self-determination, the application of positive psychology to the disability context, applied cognitive technologies, and the education of learners with intellectual disability and extensive support needs. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities), the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the latter of which he is also a past-president. He is currently the President of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Karrie A.Shogren, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Special Education, Senior Scientist in the Life Span Institute, and Director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Shogren's research focuses on self-determination and systems of support for people with disabilities and she has a specific interest in the multiple, nested contextual factors that impact outcomes. Dr. Shogren has published over 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals, is the author or co-author of 10 books, and is one of the co-authors of Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Support, the 11th Edition of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities' seminal definition of intellectual disability as well as the Supports Intensity Scale-Children’s and Adult Version. Dr. Shogren is also the lead author of the Self-Determination Inventory System, a newly development measurement system for self-determination. Dr. Shogrenhas received grant funding from several sources, including the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). Dr. Shogren is co-Editor of Remedial and Special Education.