Martin E. Blair, PhD

Associate Director,

Marty began his professional career as a middle school special education teacher. After several years in the classroom, he came to the Center for Persons with Disabilities to work on a variety of projects including distance education for inservice teachers, special education compliance monitoring, and substance abuse prevention training for teachers on the Navajo Nation. Currently, Marty is the Associate Director of the Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center (MPRRC) and Associate Director of the Center for Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TAESE) at Utah State University. In addition, he serves as the Chair of the Utah Interagency Outreach Training Initiative Steering Council. In these various roles he works with state and federal policy makers on a variety of disability issues including education technology, community integration, disability policy, special education, employment, and access to services by ethnic minority populations. Marty earned his degrees in special education, secondary education and disability studies from Utah State University.

Roles at the CPD

• Main Profile
• Asst Dir - Policy & Development for division Administration
• Associate Director for division Technical Assistance
• Associate Director for project Center for Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education (TAESE)
• Chair, IOTI Steering Council for project Interagency Outreach Training Initiative
• Director for project Kansas Statewide Technical Assistance Services Network (TASN)
• Associate Director for project Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center (MPRRC) Region 5
• Policy Director for project National Center on Disability and Access to Education
• Principal Investigator for project Student Assistive Technology Design Program
• Principal Investigator for project Utah Assistive Technology Program