Dr. Bea Staley is a Lecturer in in Special Needs and Inclusive Education in the College of Education. Bea’s teaching and research interests relate to language development, early literacy, diversity and difference. She studies children and youth in context of their families and communities. Her dissertation research involved rural teenagers and digital storytelling as a classroom practice. Bea’s work uses qualitative methodologies, such as narrative inquiry, to explicate the more nuanced features of lived experiences. Bea holds a Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Iowa, and a PhD in Multicultural Equity Studies in Education from The Ohio State University.