Dr. Elizabeth (Boo) Murray
Dr.
Murray received her doctorate in therapeutic studies from Boston University.
Currently, she is a software developer at CAST where she combines her
technical skills, mathematics background, special education experience
and clinical specialties to develop universally designed software.
During her tenure as an occupational therapist, she presented extensively on the effects of deficits in visual perception on academic learning in children. Her doctoral research analyzed the relationship between visual-spatial abilities and mathematics achievement in both typical boys and boys with learning disabilities. She has received training in mathematics assessment at the Learning Disorders Unit of Children's Hospital in Boston and has conducted evaluations of visual-spatial and mathematics abilities on children with a variety of disabilities for the past 15 years. She has also worked as an elementary teacher and a special education teacher in the Philadelphia Public Schools.
