Background and Interests
Dr. Manjushri Banerjee 
Manju Banerjee is Associate Director of the Center for Students with Disabilities at the
University of Connecticut and is an Associate Research Scholar with the Center on Postsecondary Education and
Disability (CPED). She is also a Research and Education consultant for Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ,
and has over 23 years experience in the field of learning and other disabilities. Dr. Banerjee is a certified diagnostician and
teacher-consultant for learning disabilities (LDT-C).
Dr. Banerjee’s research interests include Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) and its application to assessment and
technology-mediated instruction, disability documentation, high stakes testing, assistive and instructional technologies,
postsecondary transition for students with learning disabilities, diagnostic assessment, and implications of legal mandates
for transition.
She has worked as a postsecondary disability service provider, faculty member, rehabilitation counselor, and research consultant
for many years. Dr. Banerjee has published and presented extensively, both nationally and internationally on topics including
disability documentation and high stakes testing, competencies and strategies for instructional technologies in postsecondary
transition, and universal design.
She is Co-Principal Investigator of UDI-Online, a federal grant investigating the
creation of a UDI repository of tools for online and blended courses. Manju is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Postsecondary Education Disability and member of the advisory board for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic,
New England Unit.
Dr. Banerjee received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in special education investigating student preferences for
universal design features in high stakes tests (GRE). She received the
Harris Kahn
Dissertation Award in 2008 and the
Vivienne Dean Litt
Memorial Award for leadership in the field of learning disabilities in 2006.
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