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University Daily Kansan. March 31, 1983
Program will be one of nation's first
Joel Thornton
Taff Reporter
A new graduate program in the study of child language planned for the university of Kansas next fall will be among the first of its kind in the nation, the organizer of the program said this week.
And so impressive are the credentials of the KU professors participating in the program that a nationally known professor has said the same program did not be pulled off at Harvard university.
"That's kind of a tribute to the leadership at KU," said Robert Schief-busch, organizer of the program, of the comments of Roger Brown, who is inferred a leader in the study of child language.
SCHIEFELBUSCH SAID the new program would provide a central home for KU's 25 years of research in children's language conducted through the Bureau of Child Research. Schiefelbusch is director of the bureau.
The study of child language assesses how normal and handicapped children require language and communication skills.
A request for KU to grant degrees in foreign language was approved by the board of Residents last week
Schiefelbusch said he would meet
with officials from research and graduate studies in the next few days to settle plans for the program.
About 26 professors from departments such as psychology, human development, linguistics, and speech, language and hearing will participate in the program, which will offer master's and doctorate degrees, he
TEN STUDENTS are expected to enroll the first year, he said.
The program will bring together under one program students studying different subjects who have done research in child language.
"I hope its great impact will be outward, in what people realize we have achieved," Schiebfuchs said. "It added to statute to the University in this way."
"People all over the world write here, visit here and use our formulations. We've become a world center. It is not to have an academic center."
A national trend toward bringing handicapped people into the mainstream of society has made the study of child language increasingly important.
suffering from other handicaps must be taught many communication and language skills that come naturally to normal children.
LEARNING A LANGUAGE is actually a complex process of combining the skills of reading, writing and speech. Schollenbuehner. Children who are autistic, mentally retarded, deaf or
"It's all done so naturally we don't think much of it unless a child has an impairment," Schiefelbusch said. "When it becomes a matter of individual tragedy, it becomes extremely important."
He said about 10 percent of the children in the United States needed
KU professors and students have studied severely retarded teenagers at Parsons State Hospital to see what skills severely retarded teenagers must have to learn to communicate normally, Schiefebusch said.
THE BUREAU OF CHILD Research has studied child language at various city and state institutions, Schiefelbusch said.
Schiefelbusch has expected students in the program to become leaders in the study of child language — in particular, as part of discussions at hospitals or other institutions.
A KU professor in the bureau has also studied the language patterns of preschool children in a predominantly black section of Kansas City, Kan., to see how living in a poverty-streken environment hurts vocabulary development in children, Schiefelbusch said.
Condor chick slowly emerging
By United Press International
SAN DIEGO — Keepers at the San Diego Zoo kept a round-clock watch yesterday on a rare California condor egg while the little chick inside enlarged a small hole it has pecked in the shell.
If all goes well the tiny condor, which would grow into a massive carrion eater with a wing span of about 12 feet, would be the first of the rare birds to be hatched in captivity.
"We can just see it's little beak," Joanne said. "It still has a little work to do. It's quite active, rolling around a lot."
Zoo spokesman Jeff Joette said the bird had pecked a hole the size and shape of a peanut in the shell.
Biologists snatched the baby blue egg that rests in an incubator at the zoo's Egg and Propagation Center from a nest on the side of a cliff in Ventura County Feb. 23. It was airlifted to San Diego in a suitcase lined with Styrofoam and hot water bottles.
Only 17 California condors are known to exist in the wild, among which are five mating couples.
Arkansas company selected to rebuild KANU radio tower
An Arkansas company has been selected to rebuild KANU's broadcast tower and the station should be able to operate in the sun, director of the station said yesterday.
Howard Hill, the director, said that Bethlehem Tower Works of Harrison, Ark., would rebuild the 605-foot tower for $185,000. Construction of the tower will begin soon and will take about a month, he said.
The KANU tower on West Campus collapsed Dec. 11 after vandals cut three of its support wires. The station has been broadcasting from a temporary location with power of only 8.28 kilowatt, compared to a normal power of 110 kilowatt.
AS A RESULT, KANU's broadcast range has been cut substantially. Hill said. Listeners in GIS CIS receive only spotty reception, he said.
Although Bethlehem Tower will build the tower, Westfall Tower Service, Inc. of Fort Smith, Ark, has been subcontracted to erect it, Hill said. Construction should take about three weeks, depending on the weather.
KANU expects to receive an FM antenna, which will be mounted on the top of the tower, in two to three months, Hill said. The station will be able to
broadcast at full power after the antenna is installed.
KANU had been accepting bids for a new tower since shortly after the collapse but had to wait until an auction of $15,460 was obtained March 10.
HILL SAID KANU was still awaiting a decision on $5,000 that it wants from its insurance company, Insurance Company of North America, for the cost of removing debris from the tower area.
KANU's annual fundraising campaign has been postponed until June, when the new tower will be in operation.
The campaign, which is normally in late February or early March, usually raises one-third of the station's capital funds. The campaign raised $800,000 in the campaign.
This year, KANU held an auction in January and sent letters its largest collection of antiques.
KANU LISTENERS HAVE shown a remarkable response toward the station's financial needs since the tower collapsed. Hill said Listeners from as many as 20,000 sent in donations, even though they cannot now hear the station's broadcasts.
"That's really encouraging," he said.
"That really keeps our spirits up."
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