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January 7, 2025 (Silver Spring, MD)

Ceremony to take place at the 149th AAIDD Annual Meeting in June 2025.

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) is pleased to announce and congratulate those who have been selected to receive awards of the Association in 2025. Each year, AAIDD honors select individuals, organizations, or media who have made outstanding contributions to the field. A call for award nominations is issued in the fall of each year and awards are presented at the annual meeting of the Association.

The 2025 AAIDD awards recognizing outstanding contributions or special achievement are:

Early Career Award
     Antonio Manuel Amor González, PhD, University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)

Education Award
     Esther Lindström, PhD, The University of Illinois-Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Historic Preservation Award
     Impact [Publication], University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)

Humanitarian Award
     Genevieve Fitzgibbon, Keystone Human Services (Harrisburg, PA)

International Award
     Jan Šiška, PhD, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)

Leadership Award
     Alixe Bonardi, MS, MHA, FAAIDD, Human Service Research Institute (Boston, MA)

Media Award
     Telling it Our Way [Podcast], University of Toledo (Toledo, OH)

Policy Award 
     Sheryl Larson, PhD, FAAIDD, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)

Research Award 
     Marc J. Tassé, PhD, FAAIDD, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

Service to the Association Award 
     Mark McManus, PhD, MSSW, FAAIDD, University of Akron (Akron, OH)

Service to the Field Award 
     Deborah Spitalnik, PhD, (Emeritus) Rutgers University (Stockton, NJ)

Special Award 
     Oscar Hughes, PhD, University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)

Student Award 
     Geonhwa (Gina) Kim, MS, University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)

Awardees will be honored at the 149th AAIDD Annual Meeting to be held June 23-25, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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Founded in 1876, AAIDD is the oldest professional association concerned with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Learn more about the organization at http://www.aaidd.org