Alan Kurtz
alan.kurtz@umit.maine.edu

Research Associate

University of Maine

Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall
Orono, ME 04469

207/581-1084 (V/TTY)
800/203-6957 (V/TTY)
207/581-1231 (Fax)

Project Affiliation:

• Maine Employment Curriculum Project

Specialty Areas:

• Facilitated communication
• Autism
• Movement Disturbance in Autism
• Positive Supports

Education:

Ph.D. Candidate, University of New Hampshire
M.Ed., Intensive Special Education, University of Vermont
B.S., Sociology, Elizabethtown College

Representative Publications:

• The Communicator (Newsletter of the Autism National Committee)
• Closing the Gap
• Counterpoint
• New England Newsletter on Facilitated Communication
• Facilitated Communication in Maine
• The DEAL Newsletter

Professional Associations:

• TASH
• New England TASH
• Autism National Committee (Board Member)
• Northeast Regional Conference on Autism (Board Member)

Other:

• 1993 American Association of Mental Retardation Region 10 - Humanitarian Award
• 1991 Director’s Award for Most Outstanding Program from the Vermont Division of Mental Retardation