Sailor receives 2007 Distinguished Research Award from the Arc

Last fall, KU Special Education Professor and Beach Center on Disability Associate Director Wayne Sailor was named as the 2007 recipient of The Arc’s Distinguished Research Award. This prestigious award is given to one researcher whose lifetime accomplishments have made a significant contribution to people with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Edward Carr, Ph.D., Stony Brook State University of New York, expressed the benefits of Wayne’s contributions to the field and emphasized the lessons learned from school-wide positive behavior support for both minimizing challenging behavior and creating a constructive academic environment that promotes meaningful learning.

“Through Wayne’s research in the toughest of urban schools, we have learned that sensitivity to cultural differences and basic respect for people of diverse ethnic backgrounds facilitates better and more successful outcomes across a broad range of intellectual disability,” Carr said.

Carr added that through Sailor’s Schoolwide Applications Model (SAM) the educational field has learned the value of structural reform in moving from the destructive division of special and general education services to a model of school inclusion and improved quality of life. He said Sailor’s practical model promotes organizational, resource and curricular integration in a way that facilitates academic success and social relationships.

Sailor is also one of the “founding fathers” of TASH, an international association leading the way to inclusive communities through research, education and advocacy. Carr said Sailor’s contributions through TASH and his work with school structural reform have “contributed in a major way to creating a permanent infrastructure in the United State that has pushed the envelope in terms of what we believe people with intellectual disabilities and their families can accomplish and what they deserve from society.”

The Arc, formerly known as the Association of Retarded Citizens, is the world’s largest grassroots organization of and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. With more than 140,000 members affiliated through more than 850 state and local chapters across the nation, The Arc is devoted to promoting and improving supports and services for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Early recipients of this honor included B. F. Skinner; Jerome Lejeune, who discovered the genetic basis for Down syndrome; and Andreas Rett, who identified Rett syndrome. KU Department of Special Education faculty members Ann Turnbull and Doug Guess, professor emeritus, have received this award.

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