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Wednesday. June 14. 1972
University Summer Kansan
R. L. Schiefelbusch, Director of Child Resilience, oversees the activities of three centers located in Haworth Hall, at the KU Medical Center and at the Parsons State Hospital, official opening ceremonies for the facility in Haworth Hall will be held today,
a laboratory for teachers in education, oceans, and other areas. Mrs. Mary Hobfler, below, along with other teachers, leads classroom activities for retarded children enrolled at the
with Governor Robert Docking, former chancellor W. Clare McKinnon and Chancellor James Foster. Our research and educational activities are carried on in the complex work of the department as well as serving as a
New Children's Center Provides Space for Research and Training
Today's dedication ceremonies for the Kansas Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development will acknowledge the major advances Kansas has made in treating handicaps in children. A series of dedications and open houses in Kansas City will show that Parsons will present six facilities for research and professional training in the causes and treatment of mental retardation and its aspects of human development.
THE CEREMONY at Lawrence will be followed by dedications at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City and the Parsons State Hospital. At the KU Center, Parsons, Garcia LaVie, director of the
Also presiding at the dedication
of the card. Skippa bushe,
director of the U.K. Bureau of
the K.U. Bureau of Child Re-
sponsibility. Vie Chang-
William O. Rue.
Tours and an open house of the facilities will be conducted from 9 a.m. till noon.
Former University of Kansas
Chancellor W. Clarke Wesson has returned to Lawrence to be the opening ceremony at 10 a.m.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, will be the speaker in Kansas City at 10 a.m. Tuesday, R-Yates Center, will address the Parsons ceremony at 6 p.m. There will be an open house and meeting on Thursday.
These dedications are due in part to the work of Director Schweichbaum (2015), he was awarded the treasury of Child Research at KU.
He began collaborating with Howard Bair, superintendent and medical director of Parsons State Hospital, on the idea of using research results from KU in developing a retarded children at Parsons.
"IN 1958 there were four researchers, less than a thousand people, and we thought that was all the money in the world," recalled Ross Copeland, director of Research for the Kansas Center.
Federal funds became available for the program in 1958 and it began growing.
Today the Center has 230,000 square feet in six facilities, 798 employed and $2 million a year for housing. The cost for building the facilities was
$7.3 million, most of which comes from state and federal funds.
The Kansas Center will be one of the foremost centers of its type in the United States. Its basic mission is to provide education at its conception; research facilities in conjunction with clinical centers for the treatment of mental retardation and related problems in human development in children.
THE UNIVERSITY-
AFFILIATED Clinical Training
Center facilities will be able to
train 300 students a year and
1,500 children at a time. The
Lawrence facilities alone provide
graduate training in special
education, occupational therapy,
psychology, speech and hearing,
development and music
therapy.
The Center has progressed greatly in the last few years. But it is the future that is what most developers. The Center's developers.
"We're now just beginning to learn about how we are a director of communications at the KU Bureau of Child Development. What we're doing won't change."
AMONG THE projects the
Center is working on is the Juniper Gardens Children's Project, where researchers are trying to develop better education training programs for the environmental community of Kansas City
Through another project called Achievement Place, the Kansas Center of researchers are working to develop a program that considered "uncontrollable." The program is designed to improve the academic, social, self-care and work behaviors of students in school. It is in their school or community.
While the research goes on, the clinical training buildings will be places where retarded children and their parents can get help. Professionals of all kinds can devote part of their time to working in the centers with graduate students who can teach them. Professionals they will need in their own work. In addition, clinicians and researchers from the Center will go out into the communities to help the retarded and handicapped where they live or work.
The state government is committed to assure the future of the center for a least the next 20 years.
Photos by Bill Seymour
Many of the areas, above right, are equipped with one way mirrors so that students and faculty can observe activities without disturbing the participants. Most have the capability for listening and observing, but some activities cannot be observed, but can be video taped for viewing by teachers and students. John Trewola, professional engineer pictured at right, keeps the numerous video taping units in operation. Several full-sized classrooms are provided by the College of Human Development shown at right, discusses the coming days plans with two practice teachers, Carol Menelly, Prairie Village senior, and Willie Brown, Kansas City High School Assistant Professor of Human Development shown at right, discusses the coming days plans with two practice teachers, Carol Menelly, Prairie Village senior, and Willie Brown, Kansas City High School Assistant Professor of Human Development shown at right, preparing them to enter the public school system in the future. Mrs. Millie Copeland, right, provides occupational therapy for those students such as Donnie Hurrellbrink, who is working with children in the classroom. She designs activities which will strengthen his muscles which were damaged by cerebral palsy.