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Valerie Smith

 


Valerie Smith
valerie.smith@umit.maine.edu

Coordinator of Community Services & Assistant Research Professor

University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Rm 114
Orono, ME 04469-5717

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

Project Affiliations:

Education:

Ph.D., Special Education, Syracuse University
C.A.S., Disability Studies, Syracuse University
M. Ed., Special Education, University of Maine
B.M.E, Music Therapy and Music Education, University of Kansas

Research Interests/Specialty Areas:

  • Disability Studies
    • culture and representation
    • difference, power, and oppression
    • reciprocal relationship of theory and practice
  • Special Education
    • inclusive practice and students with low-incidence disabilities
    • post-secondary education and developmental disability
  • Other
    • relationships between IHE and community, community activism
    • service learning, volunteering, and equal status participation

Service:

  • New England TASH: board member
  • MEDAC
  • U of Maine President’s Council on Disabilities
  • Faculty Sponsor: University of Maine Habitat for Humanity Student Chapter

Professional Affiliations:

  • TASH
  • New England TASH
  • Society for Disability Studies
  • International Association of Special Education
 

Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Rm 114
The University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469
Phone: 207/581-1084

The University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
207/581-1110
A Member of the University of Maine System