Susan M. Duncan

Susan M. Duncan is an Associate of the Fall Prevention Center of Excellence and an instructor for the National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modification. Susan brings her long history and experience as a both a designer and a Registered Nurse to the Centers’ online course, “Home Modification: How to Get it Done.” As the founder and principal of The ABCs of Accessibility® Inc., she has assisted hundreds of individuals build and modify homes to accommodate their unique abilities with her design and consulting service for professionals and consumers.

In 1990, Ms. Duncan embraced The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights law of 1990, and began providing ADA consultation services to public and private entities including The Boeing Company, Seattle Monorail, Sound Transit, Nordstrom and Hilton Hotels. For three years, Ms. Duncan taught at Seattle Pacific University, including a required course she developed, ‘Universal Design in Housing’ for the Interior Design program. Susan is a respected lecturer who speaks internationally at conferences, such as of the American Society on Aging and the National Aging in Place Council. In her spare time, she is executive producer of an award winning educational video series on accessible design and construction for living environments. Ms. Duncan has also invented and patented a space planning design tool, the “Visualizer® Set”, which was introduced to the market spring of 2004.