Vice President of Neurodiversity Research and Innovation
Landmark College
Dr. Lalor received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut. With more than a decade of experience in higher education administration, his graduate work focused on the study of the transition of students with disabilities to and within higher education and the preparation of faculty and college administrators to serve students with disabilities. Broadly, Dr. Lalor focuses on raising awareness of postsecondary opportunities for individuals with disabilities and including disability within the discourse of diversity. His recent work has focused on the development of disability related competencies for higher education administrators and the college search and application process for students with disabilities. Dr. Lalor is active in professional associations across K-16 education, and has served on the Board of the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Division on Career Development and Transition (DCDT). He regularly presents at national conferences on the college search for students with disabilities, universal design for instruction, and disability-related professional development for higher education administrators.
Assistant Director of Professional Development/LCIRT
Landmark College
Emily recently joined the LCIRT team following a decade of direct Disabled student-support in both K12 and higher education. Following her undergraduate work at Wheaton College (MA), where she majored in psychology, she embarked on a career focused on supporting children and young adults with disabilities. She earned her M.Ed. and Ed.S. from the College of William & Mary with an intense focus on psychoeducational assessment and evaluation, and worked as a school psychologist in the greater Richmond area for 3 years. After seeing the impact of regularly incorporating technology into her everyday field work supporting students, she transitioned into higher education as an assistive technology specialist, eventually expanding her skill set into accessible media, accommodation support, faculty consultation, academic skills development, and community education regarding accessibility and the Disabled community. Once she realized her true passion within the field was clearly tied to education and training, she joined Landmark’s LCIRT team to both narrow her focus and broaden her outreach. She is particularly interested in learning and cognition strategies, psychoeducational evaluation, and translating research into accessible content for students, teachers, and parents. While she was born in Bennington, Vermont and raised in upstate New York, she currently calls the vibrant city of Richmond, Virginia home.