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J. David Smith

J. David Smith, Ph.D., earned both baccalaureate and graduate degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was awarded a second master’s degree and his doctorate from Columbia University. His professional experience includes work as a public school teacher, counselor, professor, dean and provost. He has made numerous invited presentations to national and international audiences and regularly contributes to the professional literature on education, human services, and public policy through journal articles. He is the author of eleven books. One of the integrating themes of Dave Smith’s research and writing has been a concern for the rights and dignity of people with disabilities.

There are 10 included publications by J. David Smith :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
The Continuing Dilemma of Educating Children with Mild Learning Problems. 1978 192 Despite the relatively great volume of professional debate regarding the elimination of categories within the field of special education, much effort continues to be invested in defining various subpopulations of exceptional children. Categorical def...
Ethical Considerations in Teaching Self-Determination: Challenges in Rural Special Education. 2008 1048 The development of self-determination skills in students with disabilities is a priority in special education. Its importance is particularly significant for students who are attending schools in rural areas. Instruction in self-determination also ra...
Histories of special education: Stories from our past, insights for our future. 1998 497 The history of special education is a collection of the memories and stories that serve as a foundation for the field. Historical research sometimes reveals previously overlooked insights. It is also an opportunity for understanding aspects of people...
An investigation of date of birth in the incidence of learning disabilities. 1986 311 The literature on the epidemiology of various handicapping conditions reflects the interest that researchers have had in the possible role of seasonal variations as correlates of the incidence of specific disabilities. This study investigated the pos...
Learning disabilities: Individual needs or categorical concerns? 1978 574 Despite the fact that the field of learning disabilities has grown dramatically in recent years, many questions remain unanswered or disputed. In the absence of a clear definition of learning disabilities, the authors suggest that it has become an ed...
Liddy, a child found and lost: A voice across time. 1997 415 The subject of children whose physical and psychological development takes place in the wild or in isolation has long intrigued philosophers and scientists. The term "feral" has been used to refer to such children. Reports of feral children are rare....
Old texts and “felt necessities”: Proceeding with caution. 1997 411 In the following article, J. David Smith looks at the eugenics movement of the early 20th century, a movement that used "scientific" research and evidence to assert that undesirable traits were largely hereditary and to create social policy that woul...
A reply to Kauffman. Letters. 1982 174 We read with interest your editorial statements in two recent issues of EEQ (2:2 and 2:3). Your comments contain some most interesting elements and are alluring as intellectual exercises. We feel obligated, however, to respond to some of your percept...
Speaking of mild mental retardation: It‘s no box of chocolates, or is it? 2006 1142 The meaning of the category and concept of mild mental retardation is explored through the words of fictional characters and the accounts of real people who have been injured and stigmatized by the label. Examples of the extremes to which people have...
Thoughts on the changing meaning of disability: New eugenics or new wholeness? 1999 663 In 1927, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Virginia law in the case that came to be known as Buck v. Bell ( 1927). Carrie Buck was the first person to be eugenically sterilized under the authority of that law. The law allowed a stat...