Luanna Meyer

Luanna Hazel Meyer (born 1945) also known as Luanna Voeltz, is an American–New Zealand academic, and is professor emerita of education at Victoria University of Wellington. She worked on inclusive education and teacher development in America and New Zealand.

Early life and education Meyer was born in 1945 and grew up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She calls it a "typical American town", and noted that she never saw anyone with disabilities at her school or in her community, other than one friend who had polio. Outside Oshkosh was the Winnebago Mental Health Institute which was for adults, but also had an autism unit and a children's unit. Meyer volunteered at the Institute as a teenager, and her experiences there led to her studying the unit during her PhD research at the Indiana University Bloomington. Meyer retired in 2012.

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