2026 CASE Conference

Cynthia Curry
Associate Director
Institute for Disability Research, Policy and Practice


Cynthia is an Associate Director in the Technical Assistance (TA) Division of the Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice (IDRPP) at Utah State University where she serves as Director of the National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials & Instruction (NCADEMI or "N-cademy"), a TA center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Starting her career in education as a secondary science teacher, she has enjoyed diverse roles in the pursuit of more accessible digital learning environments in preK–12 and higher education. With the Maine Department of Education’s Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), she served as a Statewide Technology Integration Mentor for ten years, providing training to districts on making 1:1 technology programs accessible to learners who use assistive technology (AT) and accessible educational materials (AEM). For the state’s AT Act Program, she led statewide trainings during the early implementation of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS). At the University of Southern Maine, Cynthia was director of a personnel development grant funded by OSEP, Transforming Teaching through Collaborative Teacher Education. During this time, she founded the Maine Teacher Preparation Collaborative to help pre-service programs better prepare new general and special education teachers in the use of AT and AEM. Prior to joining the IDRPP in 2024, she was Director of Technical Assistance at CAST.

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