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Barbara Dole Acosta, M.S. Ed. bacosta@air.org Primary Interests Bilingual Special Education Deaf Education Cultural/ Linguistic Diversity International Program

Barbara Dole Acosta works as a Technical Assistance Liaison with the Elementary and Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center. She received a B.A. in Psychology from Antioch College, an MS Ed. in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Bilingual/Multicultural Education from George Mason University.

In addition to her technical assistance work for EMSTAC, Barbara also supports several other projects to link research to practice. She is responsible for reviewing current educational research to create products useful to practitioners in schools and classrooms, as well as to policy makers. In this role, Ms. Acosta has co-authored web pages, fact sheets and other publications regarding effective instructional practices for English language learners with disabilities, behavioral management systems, and the use of technology to teach reading and writing to students who are disabled and to students who are deaf and hearing impaired.

Prior to coming to AIR, Ms. Acosta lived and worked in El Salvador, where she spearheaded several educational initiatives. She was a founder of the Centro de Educación para el Desarrollo Rural (Center of Education for Rural Development), and of the Oscar Arnulfo Romero University in northern El Salvador. Ms. Acosta has worked in a number of settings as an English as a second language (ESL) teacher for secondary public school students and international pre-university students. She is bilingual in Spanish and English.

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