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William N. Myhill, M.Ed, J.D.,
Senior Research Associate

Mr. Myhill has over 18 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 and is a board member for Onondaga Community Living, a service agency providing individualized vocational and residential support for persons with intellectual disabilities. Formerly, Mr. Myhill served for twelve years as a special education teacher, collaborating within multidisciplinary teams to facilitate and implement individualized education programs for children having diverse special needs.

As a Senior Research Associate, Mr. Myhill oversees disability law and policy research initiatives, collaborates on numerous research grants, and is Project Director for grants from the National Institute for Disability & Rehabilitation Research (U.S. Department of Education). The “IT Works” project in its final year is identifying barriers and facilitators, and testing strategies, to improve the hiring, retention, advancement and wages of individuals with disabilities using IT in media, technical support, and business careers. The “Demand-side Employment Placement Models” project utilizes scientifically rigorous and evidence-based methods to develop, identify, and evaluate employment demand-side models.

In the role of Adjunct Professor of Law, Mr. Myhill oversees the work of BBI Law RAs and supervises law student research for Independent Study and writing credits. He directs the legal analysis of the latest ADA cases and develops consumer friendly briefs in support of the educational initiatives of the Southeast Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center. His personal research interests include ADA implementation, special education, accessible IT & telecommunications, distance education, youth-to-work transition, invisible disabilities, and universal design principles.


Curriculum Vita - Word format (.doc) | Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)

Myhill - SU faculty webpage

Myhill - Center for Digital Literacy

Selected Publications

  1. 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., Kluwer Publishers, forthcoming 2008).
  2. Accessible Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Knowledge Communities in the Disability Community (2007).
    William N. Myhill, Derrick L. Cogburn, Deepti Samant, Benjamin Addom, & Peter Blanck
    18 Assistive Technology Journal (forthcoming 2008).
  3. Distance Education Initiatives and Their Early 21st Century Role in the Lives of People with Disabilities.
    William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant, David Klein, Shelley Kaplan, María Verónica Reina, & Peter Blanck
    In Focus on Distance Education Developments (Edward P. Bailey, ed., Nova Science Publishers, 2007)
    Word format[.doc]
  4. Employment of People with Disabilities: Twenty-five Years Back and Ahead Peter Blanck, Meera Adya, William N. Myhill, Deepti Samant, & Pei-Chun Chen
    25 Law & Inequality 323 (2007).
  5. Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (Casebook Supplement) (2006)
    Peter Blanck, Eve Hill, Charles D. Siegal, Michael Waterstone, & William N. Myhill
    Thompson/West
  6. The State of Public Education and the Needs of English Language Learners in the Era of ‘No Child Left Behind,’ (2004)
    William N. Myhill
    8 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, 393
    Full-text [.pdf]
  7. No FAPE for Children with Disabilities in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Time to Redefine a Free Appropriate Public Education (2004)
    William N. Myhill
    89 Iowa Law Review, 1051
    Full-text [.pdf]
  8. Electronic Doors to Education: Study of High School Web Accessibility in Iowa (2003)
    David Klein, William Myhill, Linda Hansen, Gary Asby, Susan Michaelson, & Peter Blanck
    21 Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 27
    InterScience site | Abstract | Full-text [.pdf]