BBI Staff
William N. Myhill, M.Ed, J.D.,
Director: Legal Research & Writing - BBI
Adjunct Professor - College of Law
Faculty Associate - Center on Digital Literacy, iSchool - SU
Mr. Myhill has over 20 years of professional experience in law and education, collaborating with and providing services for diverse individuals with disabilities and cultural/linguistic differences, through extensive research, teaching, and advocacy in the United States and abroad. He has a lifetime of personal experience with family disability. Formerly, William served as special education teacher, facilitating, implementing and assessing individualized education programs for children with diverse special needs, and was as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
As Director of Legal Research and Writing at BBI, William oversees the disability law and policy research initiatives of the Institute, collaborates on multiple federal and state research and demonstration grants, and is Project Director for the five-year “Demand-side Employment Placement Models” project (National Institute for Disability & Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education). This project utilizes scientifically rigorous and evidence-based methods to develop, identify, and evaluate employment demand-side models, programs and services that enhance employment opportunities for qualified persons with disabilities.
William’s research interests include legal and policy developments affecting children with disabilities and persons aging with or into disability, youth-to-work transition, reasonable accommodations, accessible housing, stigma toward persons with invisible disabilities, assistive technology, universal design principles, and accessible electronic & information technology.
As a Faculty Associate with the Center for Digital Literacy (Syracuse University iSchool), he collaborates on many of these and related issues. William is Executive Editor of the Disability Law & Policy e-Newsletter and was Managing Editor for the Iowa Law Review. He is a board member for Onondaga Community Living, a service agency providing individualized vocational and residential support for persons with intellectual disabilities in Syracuse, NY.
Curriculum Vita - W. Myhill PDF format
W. Myhill, Adjunct Professor - SU faculty webpage
W. Myhill, Faculty Associate - Center for Digital Literacy
Selected Publications
- Law & Policy Challenges for Achieving an Accessible Information Society in the EU: Lessons from America.
William N. Myhill.
European Yearbook on Disability Law (forthcoming 2010). - Disability and Aging: Historical and Contemporary Challenges.
William N. Myhill & Peter Blanck.
10 Marquette Elder’s Advisor (forthcoming 2010). - The Promise of Municipal WiFi and Failed Policies of Inclusion: The Disability Divide.
Paul M.A. Baker, Jarice Hanson & William N. Myhill.
14 Information Polity 47-59 (2009). - Individuals with Cancer in the Workforce and Their Federal Rights.
Peter Blanck, William N. Myhill, Janikke Solstad Vedeler, Joanna Morales & Paula Pearlman.
Cancer Survivorship and Work 255-276 (M. Feuerstein, ed. 2009). - The Care of Children with Disabilities: Legal and Public-policy Perspectives.
Peter Blanck & William N. Myhill.
The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion 275-276 (R.A. Shweder, ed. 2009). - Workplace Accommodations: Ergonomist as Mediator in the Interactive Process.
Naomi Schreuer, William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant, Tal Aratan-Bergman & Peter Blanck.
31 Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, & Rehabilitation (forthcoming 2009). - Workplace Accommodations: Empirical Studies of the ADA.
Peter Blanck, Helen Schartz, D.J. Hendricks, Kevin Schartz, & William N. Myhill.
Assessing the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (M. Stein & S. Estreicher, eds., forthcoming 2009). - Developing Accessible Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Knowledge Communities in the National Disability Community: Theory, Practice, and Policy.
William N. Myhill, Derrick L. Cogburn, Deepti Samant, Benjamin Addom, & Peter Blanck.
18 Assistive Technology Journal 32-49 (2008). - Distance Education Initiatives and Their 21st Century Role in the Lives of People with Disabilities [Word file].
William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant, David Klein, Shelley Kaplan, María Verónica Reina, & Peter Blanck.
Focus on Distance Education Developments 1-39 (E.P. Bailey, ed., 2007). - Asset Accumulation & Economic Security [PDF file].
Peter Blanck, William N. Myhill, Phoebe Ball, Michael Morris & Steve Mendelsohn.
Employer Perspectives on Workers with Disabilities A National Summit to Develop a Research Agenda , 93-102 (ICDR, Sept. 2007). - The State of Public Education and the Needs of English Language Learners in the Era of ‘No Child Left Behind’ [PDF file].
William N. Myhill.
8 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, 393-447 (2004). - No FAPE for Children with Disabilities in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Time to Redefine a Free Appropriate Public Education [PDF file]
William N. Myhill.
89 Iowa Law Review, 1051-91 (2004). - Electronic Doors to Education: Study of High School Web Accessibility in Iowa [PDF file]
David Klein, William Myhill, Linda Hansen, Gary Asby, Susan Michaelson, & Peter Blanck.
21 Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 27-49 (2003).
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