William (Skip) Stahl, M.S., is CAST’s Director of Technical Assistance and one of the founders of CAST. William (Skip) Stahl, M.S., is CAST’s Director of Technical Assistance and one of the founders of CAST. Mr. Stahl chaired the National File Format Technical Panel, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs and the National Center for Accessing the General Curriculum. Mr. Stahl directs CAST’s Universal Learning Center, an initiative to transform K -12 textbooks into specialized accessible formats for students with print disabilities. Mr. Stahl has gained national recognition for his training efforts using the UDL model; several states, including Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, have hired Mr. Stahl as a consultant to help direct their process of incorporating educational technology to teach students with disabilities. He is the featured presenter in the video “Skip Stahl on Technology and Students with Special Needs”, one of the five-part award-winning series, “Technology in Today’s Classrooms” produced by Canter & Associates. He contributes a regular column to Counterpoint, a quarterly publication of the National Association of Directors of Special Education (NASDSE), and is an advisory board member on a number of K-12 and postsecondary projects focused on Universal Design for Learning. He received an M.S. from Bank Street College of Education.
