BBI Staff
Deepti Samant, M.S. (Rehab), M.S. (ECE),
Research Associate
Ms. Samant is a Research Associate at the Burton Blatt Institute. Her research interests focus on social policy and civil society engagement for people with disabilities, program design for enhancing employment opportunities, and strategies to promote access and utilization of assistive technology in developing and under-developed countries. She is passionately interested in advancing the empowerment and independence of people with disabilities through social and attitudinal changes in India and other developing nations. Samant has earned a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (University of California–Irvine), and a Bachelor’s in Telecommunication Engineering (University of Mumbai). She has professional experience in the fields of vocational counseling, website accessibility, and independent living.
Curricula Vita - Word format (.doc) | Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf)
Selected Publications
- 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). - 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). - 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]
