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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Dec. 13, 1963
NEEDED HELP—Dr. Ethel Leach, who is pioneering educational help for handicapped children in Kansas, works with a young student at the Childrens Rehabilitation Center at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
She Trains Disabled Children
To be physically handicapped is unfortunate, but to miss out on education, too, is a tragedy.
Hundreds of Kansas children are in this predicament, says a trimly tailored grandmother who has vowed to do something about it.
Dr. Ethel M. Leach, the new KU coordinator for the training of orthopedically handicapped children, says about one in every 75 young Kansasans is disabled because of injury, illness, or birth defect.
Much of her work is at the Children's Rehabilitation Center at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., where extensive facilities are maintained for teaching and caring for the handicapped.
THESE CHILDREN may have fine minds, Dr. Leach said, but they miss out on school because they have trouble walking or hearing or controlling their muscles. If they do go to school, they may have difficulty. Their classmates or teachers do not understand their special problems.
One of the best ways to improve special education for these children is to add to the qualifications of future teachers graduated at KU. This is where Dr. Leach's job begins.
But once a week she comes here to lecture to an unusual class called Education 70, "Clinical Observations in Special Education."
THIS ISN'T A class for specialists. It is for university undergraduates majoring in education who some day may have handicapped children in their regular classrooms.
THE WAY TO get along with a handicapped child in class, Dr. Leach tells her student teachers, is to demand the best from him or her and
Soviet Army to Leave Hungary
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
"The Soviet army, which crushed the Hungarian revolution seven years ago, plans to leave Hungary in the next few months, diplomatic sources said today."
It was 8 o'clock in the morning of Nov. 4, 1956, and over Budapest radio came the desperate cry:
"Help Hungary! . . . help us . .
help us!"
" . . . Soviet troops attacked the Hungarian capital with the open purpose to overthrow the legal government," he said. "The Hungarian troops are in combat . . . this is announced to our people and to the world."
Just before that had been the playing of the Hungarian national anthem, and before that an announcement by Premier Imre Nagy.
THE FOLLOWING DAYS were a story of human courage raised to incredible heights, of treachery compounded, and, in the West, a time of agonizing indecision.
The reappraisals and the harsh recriminations for what might have been would come later.
On that morning in the blasted streets of Budapest men, women and children hurled their home-made Molotov cocktails beneath the treads of Russian tanks or threw themselves bodily against tank portholes.
IT WAS AN UNARMED population against 200,000 Soviet troops and four to five thousand Soviet tanks, and before it was over more than 20,000 Hungarians were to die.
There were other far-reaching re-
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But more important, the heroism of the Hungarian freedom fighters, frightened the Soviet leaders and did gain a relaxation of sorts for all of the Soviet European satellites.
coolness resulted between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
sults. India, quick to condemn the Israeli-Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, finally came to realize the brutality of the Soviet attack on Hungary. President Tito of Yugoslavia condemned the Soviet action as a "mistake" and a new period of
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put up with no nonsense from theby being led to other children. achievement.
"For goodness sakes, don't shove the handicapped one in a corner and let the rest of the children take care of him like a little doll. Expect him to do everything he can for himself. But don't let the others tease or bully him."
Dr. Leach's interest in "special" children began several years ago when she was a teacher in Greenville, S.C.
FROM THERE, she went on to get a doctorate degree at Columbia University-specializing in training the orthopedically handicapped.
She taught handicapped children for seven years, then came to the Kansas State Department of Public Instruction four years ago. Dr. Leach joined the KU staff this fall.
Patience, more than anything, is required to teach the handicapped child, she said. The wise teacher 'knows just how far and how fast to urge on the sensitive child.
There are limits to what a permanently disabled child may be expected to accomplish. He or she must be encouraged to reach these goals, but must not be disillusioned
by being led to hope for greater achievement.
HER HOPE IS that special education programs from pre-school through high school can be established at several centers in Kansas. The teacher training at KU and pilot programs in three Kansas City Area school districts are the foundation for this.
Dr. Leach assists the planning and operation of special education programs in Kansas City, Kan., Linwood, and Shawnee Mission school districts.
Some Kansas cities have taken the lead in establishing special education services. Dr. Leach cited the public-school programs in Wichita, Topeka, Hutchinson, Salina, and Kansas City. But more are needed, she said.
The immediate needs are for more teaching space at the busy Children's Rehabilitation Center and more grants to finance the training of special education teachers.
"Kansas could become one of five or six leading centers for special education in the United States," Dr. Leach said. "It already has shown it is vitally interested in this area."
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