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Wednesday, September 1, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Audio Reader to expand service
By TERRY BAHNER
Excell Writer
To some, the two-toned outmoded mobile home might be just another narrow trailer house, but for the employees and volunteers of the University of Kansas' Audio Reader Lab, the device is the beginning of the service's planned expansion into southeastern Kansas this fall.
Audio Reader, a service that broadcasts special programs by reading newspapers, books and magazines for the blind and physically handicapped, is carried on a subcarrier frequency of the University's public radio station, KANUUM. The service is expensively operated to include Parsons, Neodesha and Independence will be carried over community cable television and microwave systems.
The radio service now broadcasts in an 85-mile radius around Lawrence.
WITH A $100,000 vocational rehabilitation grant received in June from the Health, Education and Welfare Department (HEW) and an additional $20,000 from the Kansas Legislature, the service has purchased relay equipment, an additional 500 special receivers and central receiving equipment for the expansion.
The mobile home, adjacent to Sudler House, the present location of the service, is located at 153 W. 6th St.
because of remodeling, operations will not be ready until the first week of September, Rosie Hurwitz, director of Audio Reader, said last week.
"As soon as they're finished, we'll be moving in," she said.
THE MOBILE home, which was purchased through private donations, will house three recording studio, a live broadcast studio and a master control
Hurwitz said space often was so limited, she and Tom Fish, the assistant director with whom she shares an office, would have to vacate the office to provide a quiet area for the 100 volunteers to record their tapes for an upcoming broadcast.
"We were just so cramped for space that we took over the juniper's room in the basement," she said.
HURWTZ SAID that although Audio Reader was the second such service to start in the nation, it was one of the furthest behind in space and equipment.
Space now used for broadcasting and programming will be used as offices and workspaces.
Audio Reader must apply each year for the three-year HEW grant. The $275,000 grant gives $100,000 each for the first and second years and $75,000 for the third year.
Reader's operations into the Hutchinson area. The funds would be used to purchase additional relay equipment and receivers, which would be installed mainly in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, as well as over cable TV systems.
The money for the second year, if renewed, would be used to expand Audio
SHE SAID a similar service operates in Wichita area, but it covers only an 18-mile zone.
Plans for the third year of the grant haven't been determined yet.
Hurwitz said she hoped that by the third week of this year, he would blunt and handcuff those up at the start.
With the new expansion into southeastern Kansas, Hurwitz said she would like to increase broadcast time from 65 hours a week and increase weekly and week end weekend broadcasts.
Hurwitz said she hoped expanded operation would evoke more community interest.
Don Kutton, part-time announcer for Audio Reader, said, "Our goal is to try and help all the physically handicapped in Kansas. And now the most we can help is 3,000 or 4,000 because we do not have the equipment necessary for all of them."
THE SERVICE now broadcasts from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday.
KNUTSON, WHO STARTED as a volunteer for the service, and there were about 40,000 volunteers.
Audio Reader was first financed by an anonymous donor when it started broadcasting Oct. 11, 1971. In 1971 the state University of Minnesota began financing it in 1974 the University began financing it.
The special units that pick up the KANUMF subcarrier frequency cost $70 each but are loaned free of charge to the blind and physically handicapped.
KU will share $500,000 to teach parent classes
A $500,000 parent instruction grant has been offered to the University of Kansas and the Shawnee Mission school district to help parents in their child's education parents how to deal with their children.
The five-year grant from the National
Academy of Medicine, Bethesda, MD,
will be $89,000 the first $5,000.
The grant will expand a previously nonfederally funded parent education program designed to help parents cope with normal child behavior.
Marilyn Clark, program director with the Shawnee Mission School district and cofounder of the program, said Saturday the program, sponsored by the KU Bureau of Child Research, is now concerned with the "general management of children."
The program, begun in 1973, originally dealt with exceptional children.
PARTICIPANTS ARE taught to be better parents, Clark said, and to consider consequences of behavior. More important, she is, said that the program "will teach parents, and parents will be able to teach other parents."
Under grant provisions, the Shawnee
Mission school district will provide session locations and gather participants from the Shawnee Mission district; the University will handle statewide distribution of information and Master's and doctoral training for program instructors.
Vance Hall, special education research associate of the Bureau of Child Research and head of the KU part of the program, has been the only one available in places other than Kansas City.
"IN WELLSVILLE (a town in northeastern Kansas), we are heaping to implement the program and also in other parts of the country." Hall said.
Each two-hour session will meet one night a week, beginning Sept. 13.
The course, for 360 parents, will be offered once in the fall and once in the spring. About 40 parents are expected at age 18 and junior high and five elementary schools.
The training staff, supplied by both institutions, will try to teach parents to observe and measure childhood behavior more thoroughly. Hall said. All KU instructors will come from the department of human development and family life.
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