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Show $30,000 Grant Awarded for Mental Retardation Association Activities will be as diversified diversi-fied as fly tying, investment, auto mechanics, high school completion classes and so on-Sensory on-Sensory motor, emotional and social grace classes will also be initiated to meet the specific speci-fic needs of the retarded liv-in liv-in the area. "We will work with the local communities and MRAU county coun-ty chapters in this effort and seek the counsel of educators and others who we hope will be advocates for the child" Mr. Curtis said. Mr. Curtis, 34, lives with his wife and four children in Am. Fork, where for the past fhree years he has served as a medical med-ical social worker at the Utah State Training School. A three-year, $30,000 grant, funded by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has been awarded to the Mental Men-tal Retardation Association of Utah, announced Mrs. Elaine Sharp, Executive Director. The "Commuity Schools for the Developmentally Disabled" grant will be directed by Terry Curtis and is designed to develop devel-op commuunity education leisure leis-ure time programs for the mentally men-tally retarded in Utah. According to Mr. Curtis, existing ex-isting school districts will be used before and after hours, on weekends, and during the summer. "We are not competing compet-ing with existing programs, we merely want to enhance these programs to meet the needs of the retarded who are in group homes, private homes, nursing homes, and institutions institu-tions who may not have access to, or knowledge of, some of these types of classes," said Mr. Curtis. |