Patti Kelly Ralabate, Ed.D
Patti Kelly Ralabate, Ed.D., joined CAST as Director of Implementation in September
2011 and currently teaches bilingual and special education policy courses
for The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human
Development. Previously, she served as a Boston College postdoctoral fellow-inresidence
at CAST, working on universal design for learning leadership issues. As
Senior Policy Analyst for special and gifted education for the National Education Association, she was Principal Editor of The Puzzle of Autism, an educator guide on
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She also worked for 25 years with many students
with ASD as a speech-language pathologist in Connecticut public schools.