THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Research Bureau Plans To Record Data Of Children
Statistics Will Be Kept On All Children From Birth To Eighteen
Years
A working plan of the Kansas Bureau of Child Research was officially endorsed by the administrative committee which met Friday afternoon in Dr. Florence Brown Sherbon's office.
Without the necessary funds the bureau is obviously limited as to the types and number of projects which can be undertaken. These plans are in two main groups of projects; first, those centering in the study of the so-called normal child and the family group; and second, those centering in the study of and service to the "under privileged" child.
In the study of the normal child care is a project to collect continuous records of the growth of the individual children from birth to eighteen years. There will be three record cards each covering a period of six years of the child's life, tabulating specified measurements.
Mothers Record First Period
The first record, covering the period from birth to six years, will be kept by intelligent mothers, public health nurses, health conference examiners, and kindergarten and primary teachers. The second and third periods will be kept in the schools by school nurses and teachers of physical education or school physicians. Copies of these cards have gone to press and samples will be sent on request as soon as possible.
Plan Numerous Centers
The object of the complete examination of the entire family group which is to be taken is three-fold: First, to collect data relative to the eugeric, physical, and mental status of high type American families in order that the establishments of family standards may become possible. Secondly, the initiation of the keeping of important families in this way will modify this method to the study of other types of family groups for the purpose of discovering racial and regional differences, studying defectiveness, etc.
That several examination centers may be established through the cooperative effort of various types of specialists necessary to the carrying out of this project is the hope of the Bureau.
In regard to the "under privileged" child, a project is well under way involving the study and analysis of the dietaries of various children's institutions together with the development of a practical plan for keeping records of dieties and securing a balance in diet. The department has established the State Board of the University, the State Board of Administration, the State Board of Health, and the various institutions are co-operating in this.
Study Private Institutions
Study Private Institutions
A similar study of private children's institutions may be initiated if appropriate scientific groups may develop and take advantage of their proximity to institutions of this character.
Expert diagnosis of typical children will be used by the Bureau to meet the present urgent need of taking care of the following groups; the recognized non-typical child, the child with special needs, and the child wards of the state.
The department of psychology at the University of Kansas donated to the Bureau the services of Dr. Curt Rosenow, an expert examiner, in the spring of 1922. Doctor Rosenow reports that some twenty children were examined by appointment and followed up. More applications were received than the department was able to accommodate.
Bureau to Develop Service
It is the purpose of the Bureau to develop this service by the establishment of an all-round psychological, psychiatric, social, and physical diagnostic center and the ultimate establishment of similar centers in other parts of the state as soon as the method can be standardized and equipment and personnel assembled. Those children who appear before the courts are comprised of the dependent, the defective, and the delinquent children of the Juvenile Court of Douglas County, the services of a unit consisting of a sociologist, a psychologist, and a physician who stand ready to examine every child who may be brought before this court.
Within a year, the officials of three
of the state children's institutions have publicly stated that their respective institutions are cluttered up, and their respective purposes thwarted by the presence of numbers of children not of the type for which the said institutions were created. These children have been committed to probate judges who were not qualified to make either social, mental, moral, or physical diagnosis, and who did not have the assistance of an expert diagnosis such as is contemplated by the Bureau.
The Bureau has offered the services of such diagnostic service as it is possible to assemble under present conditions, for the purpose of sorting patients with diabetes who are at present in residence in the variegated children's institutions.
Texarkana Klan Extends Scope to "Jelly Beans"
Texarkana, Ark, Nov. 8 (U.P.)—"Jelly beans" and loafers in have gotta behave here and go to bed early.
Thirty members of the Ku Klux Klan, hooded and gowned, appeared recently at a confectionery and ice cream parlor known as "Jimmie's Place," and warned the jellies and others of their type that annoyance of patrons of the place and passsby must cease.
The spokesman of the hooded censors suggested that the offenders retire at an early hour each night and their alleged offensive conduct.
Economics Frats Plan Smoker
The date for the annual Delta Sigma Pi Alpha Kappa Pi smoker has been set by the committee for November 21. Although the plans for the smoker have not been completed, it promises to be the best ever held by the two committees formed by the consultant will probably speak. According to plans, the smoker will be held at the Delta Sigma Pi chapter house.
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