Dr. Tara Jeffs is currently an assistive technology specialist for Loudoun County Public Schools, Ashburn, Virginia. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level university courses for over 15 years and her career experiences bring a wealth of expertise focusing on the infusion of assistive and emerging technologies in the classroom. Tara has written more than 35 articles and book chapters and has disseminated knowledge and research in the area of assistive and emerging technologies and online learning through more than 100 presentations at state and national conferences over the past 10 years. As a previous associate professor at East Carolina University and now an adjunct instructor for the University of Massachusetts-Boston, George Mason University, University of Alabama- Birmingham and East Carolina University her primary research areas include implementing assistive and emerging technologies in general and special education classrooms, and facilitating universal design for learning.. Tara is particularly interested in exploring, learning, and integrating both common and cutting edge assistive technologies in the home, school, community and workplace.