University Daily Kansan, March 6, 1981
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KU receives grant to study handicap problems
By FRED MARKHAM Staff Writer
The University of Kansas has been granted $200,000 by the National Institute on Handicapped Research to study problems facing disabled people
KU was one of 30 schools around the country to receive such a grant this fall. The grant was given to the University's Training and Research Center to study problems related to independent living for the severely mentally or physically disabled. Clark, director of the center, said.
"We believe that persons with disabilities can overcome many of society's attitudinal barriers without help," Clark said.
"But we can speed up the process by attacking the roots of the problem, and
No advance notice given for early audit of KU
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
In the wake of massive KU budget cut proposals by the Legislature, there have been rumors of a "down-to-bone" legislative audit of University Press.
Monday those rumors will, at least in part, come true and they will come true earlier than the KU administration had expected.
The audit is expected to be nothing more than a routine biennial bookkeeping check-up, but University officials said that they were not given the expected advance notice that the audit was coming.
"We think that the Legislative Post-Audit Office will simply conduct a routine audit and we will be ready when they arrive," Keith Nitcher, director of the office of business affairs, said. "I wonder, though, why they did not give us a call saying they were coming early."
Niccher said that his office had been noticing the audit around March 15. Acting Chancellor Del Shakel also said he had been "involved in the post-auditors to come at that time."
Last fall the center submitted five
new areas of independent living
study.
"I have heard that they were going to do this for some time now," Shankel said. "But it surprises me that they are coming to start Monday. I had thought they would have given a little more notice."
that is what we hope to accomplish with this research."
Brown said that everything his office would do at KU would be above-the-board research.
"We have told Acting Chancellor Shankel and Kite Nicher that we will be coming down to work with them on this project, as early as we sneak around looking for things."
"The point of the audit does not include anything exceptional," he said. "It will be a financial audit that will look at the University's financial statements, expense voucher and receipts for federal grants."
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Letters to each of the Kansas Regents institutions were sent out earlier in the week, letting the schools know when the audit would start, according to Richard Brown, director of the Legislative Post-Audit Office.
"This is really not all that extraordinary," Brown said. "I think that a lot of people are jumpy because of all the play in the newspapers about the budget cuts and the tenure hearings and the sports funding investigations.
- Comparing the effectiveness of different types of independent living situations, including apartments and homes.
- Analyzing current state funding for independent living and informing legislators on what funding will be needed to spur to sponsor more independent living.
- Studying the stigma associated with disability and the impact of those public attitudes on treatment
Clark said KU was not new to research on independent living.
"The University has a long history of research on problems related to disabilities." Clark said, "and with the center's involvement with the planning of Independence Inc., a center designed to assist the handicapped develop a more independent life-style, we think KU is a natural for doing such research.
"The staff operates on the basic assumption that most of the barriers and obstacles to the independent living community lie within the non-disabled population."
IN A LECTURE on campus last month, Gerber Dejong, senior research associate at the Tufts-New England College, will be in Boston echoed Clark's comments.
Dejong said that one common method used to define and measure severe disability was the inability to work or to carry out daily activities.
"The movement has always counted the severely disabled as its primary target group or constituency," DeJong said. "We are the disabled and how many are there?"
"Independent living for the severely disabled is more than a social movement," Dejong said. "It is an analytic paradigm that is reshaping the thinking of rehabilitation professionals and researchers alike."
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But Dejong said the study covered only a small fraction of all disabilities.
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Time & Date: 7:00 P.M. Monday, March 9,1981
Based on results from a 1974 survey by the National Center for Health Statistics, about 3.3 percent (6.8 million) of the nation's population are unable to work or take care of themselves.
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