University of Massachusetts, Boston

Faculty Member, Counseling and School Psychology

Graduate College of Education

About

Ilana Lehmann has a background that covers working in several industries before going back to school to become a mental health counselor. After 12 years of providing psychotherapy to adults, teens and children, she returned to graduate school and received her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Education from the Rehabilitation Institute at Southern Illinois University.  Her dissertation was the first rehabilitation study that used time series analysis to track the ups and downs in the employment rates of people with disabilties over 22 years.  Of specific interest were the effects of both the ADA and FMLA on these employment rates, over and above increases in minimum wages. 

Currently, she is conducting research on how cyberspace is changing both the labor market and the labor force. Her research seeks to explore how people with disabilities can leverage their online access to increase their employment opportunities.

At UMASS - Boston, she serves on both the Institutional Review Board and the Academic Technology Committee. She teaches research methods, psychological and educational assessment, as well as various rehabilitation courses.