Kathleen Curry Sadao, Ed.D.
Kathleen Curry Sadao, Ed.D., Program Specialist, Supporting Early Education Delivery
Systems (SEEDS) Project, Sacramento County Office of Education, P.O. Box 269003,
Sacramento, CA 95826.
Dr. Sadao has been in the field of early childhood special education (ECSE) for more
than 25 years. She received her doctorate in educational administration from
University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1995. During the 1980s and 1990s she traveled the
Pacific Islands providing training and technical assistance to newly developed ECSE
programs as a Head Start Technical Assistance consultant and later a National Early
Childhood Technical Assistance Center coordinator. Her research focus has been on
interagency collaboration, parent involvement, inclusive practices, and cross-cultural
issues in education. In 2007, she coauthored a book with Dr. Nancy Robinson focused
on interagency collaboration and evaluation. Since 1997, she has spent her time in
California focused on preservice and in-service training programs in ECSE as a faculty
member of the University of the Pacific, Gladys Benerd School of Education, and as
an administrator of an early intervention program. Most recently, under the auspices
of the Supporting Early Education Delivery Systems (SEEDS) Project at the
Sacramento County Office of Education, she has worked as a program specialist developing
training materials for the field and facilitating a state-level assistive technology
(AT) work group creating web-based AT training products. Currently she and her
SEEDS Workgroup on Early Education Technology (SWEET) team have been fieldtesting
the AT training modules around the state of California. She has presented
her work at the Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Early Childhood, conference
and other state, national, and international conferences and has published
several articles on the SWEET AT efforts.