Gwen Meyer is a senior research assistant in special education at the University of Oregon. She has 30 years of experience working with persons with low-incidence and severe disabilities in school, residential, institutional, and work settings. As a teacher, she developed and implemented systems and plans that supported her middle school students' participation in general education classrooms and in community contexts. Meyer is a long-term collaborator with the University of Oregon's Schools Projects and has participated on design groups for project products. She was an instructor in preservice courses. She also helped design, conduct, transcribe, and analyze interviews with teachers and family members as part of her research projects. Meyer can be reached at Specialized Training Program, 1235 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1235; phone: 541-346-2494; fax: 541-346-2471; e-mail: gwenmey@oregon.uoregon.edu.