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| Leadership: |
UCEDD Director | ||||||||||||||||
| Specialty Resource Contacts: | Disability Policy Special Education Post-secondary Transition Program Evaluation State Systems Policy |
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| Project/Program/Clinic Contacts: | ACL Vaccine support Moving On in Montana UM Human and Family Development Program Rocky Mountain ADA Technical Assistance Partnership OPI Agency Capacity Assessment for MTSS Implementation Montana Transition Planning Partnership: Community-based Post-secondary Transition Early Childhood Intervention Framework for All: A status review of inter-agency early childhood services in Kenya |
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| Discipline(s): |
Education/Special Education Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Education: Early Intervention/Early Childhood Assistive Technology |
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| AUCD Council Membership: |
No Council Membership |
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| Research: | disability policy, assistive technology, special education, transition, health disparities, education policy | ||||||||||||||||
| Education: | personnel preparation, disability studies, transition | ||||||||||||||||
| Service: | assistive technology, autism | ||||||||||||||||
Vita/Bio
Marty began his professional career as a paraprofessional in a high school classroom for students with severe behavior disorders. He went on to teach special education at the middle school level, followed by several years as a project/program director at the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at Utah State University. Following his stint as the first AUCD Disability Leadership and Policy Fellow in 2001, he returned to the Utah CPD as the Assistant Director for Policy and Development. In 2008, he took the dual position of Associate Director of the Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center (MPRRC) and the Center for Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TAESE). In 2012 he participated in the first class of the UCEDD Leadership Institute and a year later accepted the position of Executive Director of the University of Montana Rural Institute.
