Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

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Region 6

Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Guam

David Smith
Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative
Disorders and Deaf Studies
California State University, Fresno
5310 North Campus Drive, PH-80
Fresno, CA 93740-8019
Phone: 559.278.8039 (VP)
Phone: 559.278.2423 (VM)
Email: dhsmith@csufresno.edu

Mission

David H. Smith, Ph.D. is your newly elected representative of Region 6. He has taught in classrooms with students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing at various grade levels since 1989. Dave is past president of California Educators of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CAL-ED), has been council member of CAID for the past three years as a State Affiliate member, and a representative to the Council on Education of the Deaf (CED) on behalf of CAID. Locally, he serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Fresno, Inc., a social services agency. Dave is an Associate Professor and Graduate Faculty of Deaf Education in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies at Fresno State and has been there since 2003. Feel free to contact him at dhsmith@csufresno.edu