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Show Mental retardation conference set concerned with the menially retarded and handicapped person. Other speakers will be Dr. Gary Nakao, director of the Division of Services to the Handicapped and Utah State Training School Superinlendent Leonard W. Lavis. Lunch will be served at noon, followed by meetings for parents held at each cottage starling at 1 p.m. Each individual cottage will present a Spring Festival performed per-formed by the residents of the training school. The public is invited to attend the two-day conference, which is free of charge. However, those people interested in attending the awards luncheon should contact the MRAU office for luncheon reservations. The number is 1-800-662-5401. The 36th Annual Conference on Mental Retardation and Developmental Develop-mental Disabilities sponsored by the Mental Retardation Association of Utah (MRAU), will be held Saturday, May 19, at the University of Utah and Sunday, May 20, at the Utah State Training School in American Fork. The theme of the conference will address "Keeping up in a Changing World" in the field of Mental Retardation, according to president of the association, Dr. J. Perry Poison. The opening session of the two-day two-day conference will begin Saturday at 10 a.m. in the University of Utah Union Building. At noon, an awards luncheon in the Panorama Room will honor those persons who have made significant contributions to Utah's mentally retarded and developmentally disabled citizens. The "Sunrise and Sunrise Wheels," a dance group of handicapped han-dicapped people will perform under the direction of Anne Riordan, Adjunct Dance Professor, University of Utah. Featured at Sunday's meeting at the training school at' 10 a.m., will be Louis Nayman, assistant director for the Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, a division of the American Federation of Teachers, Washington, D.C. He will address S. 2053, "Com: munity and Family Amendments of 1983," Federal Medicaid legislation |