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Thursday, October 2, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Studies aid handicapped
A research team affiliated with the University of Kansas is developing techniques to provide basic educational materials centrally retarded and handicapped children.
Funded by a $112,057 federal contract, the research team is attempting to find new methods for teaching those learning skills. Two model classrooms have been set up in Teopae to evaluate and develop the team's ideas. To approximate those ideas if they're effective.
The University is connected to the research project through the Kansas Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development. The center is the coordinating body for a number of state agencies active in research for the handicapped. Those agencies include Parsons State Hospital, Kansas Neurological Institute, Capper Foundation and Kansas Principal investigator for the project is Wayne Sailor, a research associate with the Bureau of Child Research.
SAILOR SAID YESTERDAY interest in the severely handicapped has existed at KU since 1958. He was crested by a mandate from the U.S. Office of Education that requires public schools to provide all children with an education by the handicapped and retarded, he said.
KU was selected for the federal contract after the University submitted proposals to the Board. The proposal was retarded and children in wheelchairs, Sailor said. The proposals were reviewed by a
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WHERETHE SOMEONE IS a faculty member, a secretary, a department head or the governor. Bennett said, the important note is rather that person has completed his job.
When asked about the state's role in handling the Kansas City, Kan., police strike, Bennett said the state was involved in break-in battles, but wasn't available in strike-breaking.
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fiveman board of, educators, sociologists and physical therapists, he said.
The final decision on which agency would receive federal funding was made in June, be said. KU was chosen from 35 applicants for the contract.
THE FEDERAL CONTRACT is renewable for one three-year periods, according to Edward Zamarripa, associate director of administration for the Bureau of Child Research. Zamarripa said the state won't have to fund the project when the contract expires. He said an expanded agency would be able to possibly federal funding soon. If not, he said, the present project would be abandoned at the end of the contract period.
Sailor the contract was awarded to the University because KU has the most highly developed complex for research and development of special education in the region. The U.S. Naval Academy at other Kansas institutions gave good support to additional research grants.
THE MANDATE FOR ALL children to be educated by 1979 create three problems in school systems at the present time, he said. He said the three problems were environmental barriers, such as lack of ramps and handrails for wheel chairs; the compulsory use of handicapped children; and the lack of effective curriculum for handicapped students. The KU proposals attempted to meet those three problems, Salary said.
The primary goal of the research is to prevent institutionalization of handicapped students, Sailor said. The research will be done to find ways to get the child integrated back into the home or into small group institutions and placed in institutions. Sailor said that in some of the country children in institutions do little but lie on their backs.
SAILOR ALSO SAID it was important to educate parents of handicapped children. He said ability of parents to care for and support a child is essential in returning a child to his home.
"We're trying to develop training methods for a basis on which to build," he said. "These are mostly motor skills, such as grasping and releasing, tracking with the eyes and so on. We're also concerned with dressing and feeding, feeding dressing and with communication in the non-verbal. All of these are prerequisites for other things down the road."
One of the two Topika classrooms will serve as a showcase, Sailor said, the other an experimental lab. The ideas of the lab research team are field-tested through observation and educational analysis by computers and coordinated into specific programs for use in the other classroom, he said. That classroom will be a showcase for educators from around the country to observe observational techniques they can improve their own awe he said.
RICHARD SCHIEFELBUSCH,
DIRECTOR OF KU's Bureau of Child
Research, said the research effort was a breakthrough in terms of educational feasibility for the severely handicapped. He said the project was unique because of the boldness with which it approached the problem.
"In the past we didn't have the ingenuity, or perhaps the courage, to develop these methods (of training the handicapped)," he said. "Projects such as the one Dr. Salter is undertaking are important developments in our field that have been left to their own limited devices."
Schaeflebusch said researchers were starting from the beginning to develop techniques and that more time would be implemented throughout the country.
SAILOR SAID SOME progress had already been made in the research, although it was premature to expect radical change. He said one researcher had taught a crippled child to walk since the program started in early September.
The ability of parents to cope effectively with their child's problem is also important, but it requires greater control.
Research is being done to develop a system to assist parents willing to keep their child at home, he said. In addition to help in the home, the research will attempt to expand community services for the handicapped, he said.
"Before we can de-institutionally hand-capped children, they must have a place to live," Sailor said. "Kansas is behind in technology and computer homes and day-care centers for the young."
AFTER MODEL PROGRAMS to train the severely handicapped have been developed, Sailor said, the information will be passed on to local school districts. This will be followed by training by the state travel through the state conducting in-service training and workshops, he said.
Sailor said he would like to see all Kansas schools have the ability to educate all students in the state.
"With adequately trained personnel, adequate curriculum planning and adequate funding we can accomplish that goal ahead of schedule in Kansas," he said.
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