Senior Research Scientist/Instructional Designer
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As a Senior Instructional Designer at CAST, Elizabeth (Boo) Murray applies her technical skills, mathematics background, special education experience, and clinical specialties to the development of universally-designed software.
Dr. Murray is Co-Principal Investigator for the U.S. Department of Education’s Steppingstones of Technology Innovation program, "Thinking Writer for Science: A Technology-based Approach for Writing to Support Students with Disabilities." She has also served as Co-Principal Investigator for a project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs, to develop and test a prototype of a digital high school biology text containing embedded supports for student learning, in collaboration with the Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas.
Before joining CAST, Dr. Murray was an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University, and Assistant Director of Occupational Therapy for the Shriver Center University Affiliated Program. During her tenure as an occupational therapist, Dr. Murray 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 boys with and without learning disabilities. She received training in mathematics assessment at the Learning Disorders Unit of Children's Hospital in Boston and conducted evaluations of visual-spatial and mathematics abilities of children with a variety of disabilities for 15 years. She has also worked as an elementary and special education teacher in the Philadelphia public schools.
Dr. Murray received her doctorate in Therapeutic Studies from Boston University.
Selected Publications
Bundy, A. C. & Murray, E. A. (2002). Sensory integration: A. Jean Ayres's theory revisited. In A. C. Bundy, S. J. Lane, & E. A. Murray (Eds.) Sensory integration: Theory and practice (2nd Ed.). Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
Henderson, A., Pehoski, C., & Murray, E. A. (2002). Visual-spatial abilities. In A. C. Bundy, S. J. Lane, & E. A. Murray (Eds.) Sensory integration: Theory and practice (2nd Ed.). Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
Anzalone, M. E., & Murray, E. A. (2002). Sensory integration and other practice theories: An integrated approach to treatment. In A. C. Bundy, S. J. Lane, & E. A. Murray (Eds.) Sensory integration: Theory and practice (2nd Ed.). Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.
Meyer, A., Murray, E., & Pisha, B. (2001). More than words: Learning to write in the digital world. In A. M. Bain, L. L. Bailet, & L. C. Moats (Eds.). Written language disorders (2nd Ed.) (pp. 137–184). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
