Michael Wehmeyer

Who is Michael Wehmeyer?

Michael Lee Wehmeyer, Ph.D. is professor of special education at the University of Kansas, director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, and senior scientist at the Beach Center on Disability. His main research interest areas are self-determination, the education of students with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and access to the general curriculum for such students; he is also involved in the training of special needs teachers who work with students with multiple, severe disabilities. He has co-authored or co-edited 29 books in the field of special education, and has written more than 275 book chapters and journal articles. He is a past president and a Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and co-editor of the AAIDD ejournal, Inclusion. Professor Wehmeyer is a past president of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Career Development and Transition. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 33 on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, a Fellow and Vice-President of the Americas of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and a past editor-in-chief of the journal Remedial and Special Education.