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Pathways15: Conference Closing - Cathy Easte

Cathy Easte Bio

Cathy Easte has worked with Griffith University, since 2010 where she started as Disabilities Service Officer, Coordinator and now Manager, Student Disability and Accessibility. She has also worked for a number of Queensland TAFE colleges, private training organisations and disability services for well over 20 years prior. Cathy has been on committees for HEDN(Q), TEDCA, the very first ATEND, and is currently vice-president. She is actively involved in the Queensland QDLO network. She has extensive experience in support for students who study online / distance or externally (both at TAFE and University levels). Cathy has personal interests in assistive technologies, e-learning and how these can enrich the experiences of students with disabilities, and at times thrives on the creative challenges such technology will create. Training is Cathy’s other passion, wanting to increase the knowledge of academic staff, trainers and teachers to be able to meet the needs of their students without interaction from ‘others’. She actively works on ways to embed accessibility and inclusion principles into curriculums whenever she can. Cathy is deaf and  was one of the first deaf persons to graduate as a Teacher of the Deaf in Griffith's Deaf Student Support program over 33 years ago.