Krystle Merry
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Dr. Krystle Merry is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Merry has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Special Education Transition from the University of Arkansas and achieved her doctorate as an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Leaders for Transition scholar and International Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholar for women in research.
Prior to joining the University of Maine, she was an instructor to preservice special education teachers at the University of Arkansas, a qualitative research intern at the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in the Center for Inclusive Technology and Education Systems (CITES), and an intern as an accessibility support specialist at the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the Research to Practice (RTP) division. Before working in higher education, she obtained her National Board Certification as an Exceptional Needs Specialist in 2018 and worked for 11 years in the secondary and middle-level general and special education mathematics classroom.
In addition to her practitioner experience, she continues to develop her research on artificial intelligence (AI) to support students with disabilities, digital accessibility, open-access research, digital community resource mapping, and transition programming in online or virtual school environments.
Merry is also the Maine Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Student Chapter advisor, CEC Association for the Gifted (TAG) Newsletter editor, American Educational Research Association (AERA) SIG52 Instructional Technology Communications Officer, AERA SIG96 Inclusion & Accessibility in Educational Assessment Secretary/Treasurer, and serves on various committees at the national, state, and local institutional level.
Education
Graduate Certificate in Autism, 2024, University of Arkansas
Graduate Certificate in Special Education Transition, 2024, University of Arkansas
Foundations of User Research (UX) Certificate, 2024, University of Arkansas Professional and Development Workforce
Graduate Certificate in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), 2018, Henderson State University
MS.Ed. in Gifted and Talented Education, 2012, Arkansas State University
Bachelor of Science in Middle Childhood Education – Math and Science, 2008, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith

