CASE Conf 2025

Malarie Deardorff
Assistant Director, Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination
University of Oklahoma; Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination


Dr. Malarie Deardorff is an Assistant Research Professor and Assistant Director of the OU-ZI. Her current expertise is in self-determination instructional practices, transition assessments, transition education materials, teacher preparation, and culturally and linguistically diverse families and the IEP process. Dr. Deardorff identifies as having a disability and was served on an IEP throughout grade school. Over the past three years, Dr. Deardorff has conducted extensive professional development for educators across Oklahoma in using transition assessments and writing compliant transition service plans, and she has taught multiple courses in the special education program. To date, she has 15 peer-reviewed publications, two book chapters, and one edited book. Dr. Deardorff serves on the Division on Career Development and Transition National Organization’s board as the publication committee chair and is an active member under the Council for Exceptional Children umbrella. 

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