Our team is comprised of excellent people dedicated to
supporting disabled student services.
Jan Galvin
Jan Galvin has over 35 years of experience in the field of
assistive technology and working with individuals with
disabilities. Ms. Galvin has provided training and technical
assistance to hundreds of individuals and organizations on a
wide-range of topics related to disability and rehabilitation.
These include relevant legislation and regulations; home
modifications for aging in place; AIDS/HIV in the workplace;
universal design; consumerism and customer service issues, and
leadership, team building and systems change.
Over the past twelve years, Ms. Galvin has been actively
involved in the provision of program evaluation services for
Disabled Students Services and Programs (DSPS) in the California
Community College system, visiting over 85 community colleges. She
is an expert in the area of higher education, disability rights and
services to students with disabilities. She is also involved in the
design and implementation of on-line curricula to meet the need for
pre-service and continuing education of rehabilitation
professionals and DSPS coordinators and program managers.
Prior to moving to Tucson, Ms. Galvin was Director of
Rehabilitation Engineering at the National Rehabilitation Hospital
(NRH) in Washington D.C. where she directed the rehabilitation
engineering clinical service and several major federal grants on
the evaluation of assistive technology, new and emerging
technologies, worksite accommodations, ADA implementation, and the
District of Columbia Technology Act state grant. Ms. Galvin has
written extensively on appropriate matching of persons and
technology, consumer satisfaction with devices and services and
assistive technology outcomes. She is co-author of the book:
Evaluating, Selecting, and Using Appropriate Assistive Technology,
and is a nationally and internationally known speaker on assistive
technology issues. In 1982 Ms. Galvin was awarded a Churchill
Fellowship in Rehabilitation.
Bette McMuldren
Bette McMuldren has a thirty-three year history of working with
and advocating for people with disabilities. She has provided
direct services as a Rehabilitation Counselor and has worked
administratively in a variety of capacities including Program
Director, Grants Administrator, Trainer, and Special Projects
Coordinator. From 1994 to 2002, she directed education and training
activities for CARF…The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission.
Through that association, she planned and executed training for
CARF's 1000 member surveyor cadre, including development of
training simulations, instructional materials and presentations to
over 40 training sessions. She also oversaw CARF's many regional
and national training seminars and conferences, numbering in the
hundreds.
Prior to her work at CARF, she directed training of Vocational
Rehabilitation counselors and special projects for the AZ
Rehabilitation Services Administration. Her transition to training
activities followed extensive experience of eight years as a
counselor for people with disabilities.
Bette began her career in 1976 in the independent living
movement at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley,
California where she developed grants to fund innovative services
and programs at CIL.
Since joining the Galvin Group in 2002, Bette has offered
program review and technical assistance services to more than half
of California's 110 community colleges, as well as, training
workshops for program directors. Bette has worked extensively in
the development of materials and resources available through the
Galvin Group. Bette holds a master's degree in Rehabilitation
Counseling from New York University.
Skip Bingham
Skip Bingham M.A. C.R.C. has spent his entire professional
career dedicated to the improvement of services and the advancement
of social policy related to the education, employment and
independence of persons with disabilities. As the recently retired
Administrator of the Arizona Department of Economic Security's
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) he was responsible for
all operational and strategic issues related to the Rehabilitation
Services Administration and its several Programs (Vocational
Rehabilitation, Independent Living Services and Employment Support
Services). RSA is an entity of over 600 staff and an annual
operating budget of approximately 90 million dollars.
In 30 years in the field of vocational rehabilitation, Skip both
provided services directly and managed and developed vocational and
independent living services. As a vocational rehabilitation
counselor in the early 1980's, he specialized in working with
individuals with serious mental illness and with learning
disabilities. As a regional manager and the Administrator for RSA,
he was continuously involved in the development of cooperative
agreements between RSA and other organizations, including the
Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Department of
Juvenile Corrections, Arizona Supreme Court, Native American Tribal
Entities, City of Phoenix, Arizona State University and many local
school districts.
Skip has been responsible for the development of the Galvin
Group's online training projects. The eleven-module DSPS
Coordinator training was designed to cover all major areas of
program management for Disabled Student Programs and Services. The
newest online seminar titled, "Adults with Learning Disabilities:
Issues and Accommodations" was developed during 2008-09 and has
recently been released.
Skip's expertise with the public rehabilitation program has
enabled him to provide consultation and training across the US. He
is a certified Rehabilitation Counselor and a graduate of the
National Executive Leadership Institutes Academy for Executive
Leadership. He holds a master's degree from the University of
Arizona.
Hutch White
Hutch White is the Director of Web Development at Net Junkie
Studio (www.netjunkiestudio.com) and is the
Galvin-Group IT Team Lead. Hutch holds a bachelor's of Information
Technology and has over 12 years experience in planning, developing
and programming web applications using various technologies.