Dr. J. David Smith, Dean of the School of Education and Human Services, received the 1999 Burton Blatt Humanitarian Award from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MRDD). The award honors an MRDD member who has "exerted exceptional effort in furthering the cause" of persons with mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities. Dr. Smith, the author of eight books on mental retardation and related disability issues, has devoted much of his professional life to the social and educational implications of mental retardation.
     
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