Dr. Philip A. DiMattia is a retired faculty member of the Boston College Lynch School of Education and was also the Director of the Boston College Campus School serving children with significant disabilities and major health care issues. Prior to going to Boston College as a full time faculty member in 1988, he was employed by the Massachusetts Department of Education as a Principal and Educational Director of a Bureau of Institutional School for students with significant emotional and behavior disorders. His career spans a period of fifty-four years in public and private settings. Dr. DiMattia received his doctorate from Boston College in 1974. Dr. Allan G. Osborne, Jr. retired as the principal of the Snug Harbor Community School in Quincy Massachusetts. He was a visiting professor at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater Massachusetts where he taught courses in special education. He received his doctorate from Boston College in 1984 and served as an elementary school teacher, administrator and director of special education for the Quincy Public School System. Dr. Osborne has written extensively about special education law and has served in major leadership roles in several educational organizations.