UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 23, 1994
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Disabled people to get help from state
Daily life made easier by available devices
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
People with disabilities soon will have greater access to help within the state of Kansas.
The Assistive Technology for Kansas Project recently received $1.6 million to fund an equipment loan bank and to raise public awareness, said Sara Sack, research associate at the KU Institute for Life Span Studies in Farsons.
Sack said that five centers would be set up in the state to help people with disabilities find available devices that help with daily living. Such devices
include Braille printers, telephone devices for the hearing impaired, environment-controlled light switches and talking calculators.
"Kansas hasn't had a strong network before," Sack said. "People were familiar with few, but not all, of the devices available."
The five sites will be chosen in April. Sack said that members of the Lawrence community had applied to bring a center to Lawrence.
The centers would include equipment loan banks where people could test the devices. Sack said.
People also could receive help in locating funding to purchase resources, Sack said. She said that the state could develop low-interest loans similar to those in Maine, where the interest rates were between 1 and 2 percent.
Jean Hall, program coordinator for Independence Inc., 1910 Haskell Ave., said that the biggest problem for people with disabilities was receiving financial assistance.
"The funding's not there," she said.
"And if it's not seen as medical equipment, even if it helps daily living, it's even harder."
Hall said that insurance companies, if they paid anything at all, only provided a small percentage of the total cost of assistive devices.
Although some devices — some of which can take cans off shelves or pull on socks — are inexpensive, many items may cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Hall said that an electric wheelchair could cost as much as $18,000.
A girl in Wichita uses an eye-scanning computer that costs about
The project's developers also hope to tackle the difficulty in repairing assistive devices.
$20,000,Sacksaid.
"She's without any kind of mobility for weeks," she said.
Sack said that a girl in Parsons whose wheelchair broke almost monthly had to get parts regularly from Great Britain.
Sack said the project's developers wanted to work with businesses throughout Kansas to adapt the workplace to the needs of people with disabilities.
"We're getting in touch with businesses through the chamber of commerce to show how the environments adapt easily," Sack said. "Many times it's just a simple adaptation."
Doctoral program to move to Regents Center
By Gennifer Trail
Kansan staff writer
OVERLAND PARK — Starting this summer, the KU Regents Center will offer a doctoral program for the first time.
The doctor of education degree in educational policy and leadership with an educational administration concentration will be moving from the Lawrence campus to the center. However, three other doctoral programs in educational policy and leadership still will be offered in Lawrence, said Ray Hiner, professor
of educational policy and leadership and professor of history.
Hiner said that the program still would not be able to fulfill the demand that exists in the Lawrence and Kansas City areas for the degree.
"It is clear that the largest population of educational administrators comes from the greater Kansas City area," he said. "When you couple that with the fact that there aren't many doctoral programs in education in the area, we won't be able to provide all the training needed."
the center will begin accepting applications March 1. The School of
Education will accept only 15 to 20 people for the three-year program. The first two years consist of late afternoon and evening classes during the fall and spring semesters and half-day summer sessions for eight weeks. During the third year, students work independently on a dissertation.
The degree in educational policy and leadership is designed for educational administrators who want to prepare for leadership positions at the district level.
Max Heim, professor of educational policy and leadership, said that he supported the move.
"It's a good idea to move the program to where the students are," he said. "Almost all the students I've had in my educational administration classes were from the Kansas City area."
Bruce Lindvall, assistant dean at the center, said he was proud of the role the center was playing for the professional student.
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