2016 Internatioal Service Award

December 6, 2016

The AUCD International Service Award recognizes outstanding contributions that further programs or policies designed to create more inclusive communities for people with disabilities and their families throughout the world. The award is given in recognition of personal and professional efforts in program areas that proactively support people with disabilities and their families at local, regional, or national levels in the host country.

Michael Wehmeyer, PhD

Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
University of Kansas

In recognition of outstanding contributions that further programs or policies designed to create more inclusive communities for people with disabilities and their families throughout the world.

"Mike has had an immeasurable impact in the field of intellectual disability at the international level, first and foremost in the arena of self-determination. Mike worked to establish respect for this construct by conducting the early ground-breaking research on its conceptual model and demonstrating the importance of self-determination for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. His work has influenced researchers, educators, and clinicians around the world. Mike has been invited to give more than 37 international keynote addresses, and another 67 international workshops, symposia, paper presentations, and panel presentations. He has also served as a fellow and on the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSID) as Vice President of the Americas from 2012-2016. "