University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 1, 1975
Speech clinic gives free therapy
Bv TIM KORTE
Kansan Staff Reporter
Free therapy for people in the Lawrence area who have communication problems is available from the Speech and Hearing Clinic.
The work of the clinic, part of the University of Kansas speech pathology and audiology, includes three goals, according to James Lingwall, director.
The first of these is to provide a service to the public, young children as well as older children.
"A lot of people think speech disorders are limited only to children and that's not true." Lingwall said. "People of all ages speak in information, speech and hearing."
Training speech clinicians is also part of the clinic's job, he said, and the clinic's work is tied into the training of these students.
The third function of the clinic is to serve as a foundation for research. Linwall said.
"We do research here as to with do in treatment as well as the cause of speech problems."
Linwall emphasized that there were no fees charged for help received from the clinic.
The clinic is funded by multiple sources.
Liwailw said the clinic served several
universities within an 48-mile
radius of the University.
he said, although University and Federal Research Funds account for most of the research.
"We do believe that we are one of the units of this University that really reaches out to provide services to the people of the state." Linwall said.
"Most of the children are here from nine to twelve months and have hours two or three a week."
The clinic is open from 8 a.m. b. 5:30 p.m.
daily, he said, and the clinicians generally
work with the patients on a one-on-one
basis.
Some adults are treated by the clinic for several years or more. Lingwai said,
"It isn't a matter of a couple of quick, easy lessons," he said. "Most people underestimate the difficulty of gaining understanding, probably because speech is so automatic.
"Speech is a highly complex skill though, perhaps one of the highest skills we have."
Lingwall said the clinic treated people with problems of delayed or disordered language skills, hearing problems and voice fluency, which are such as stuttering, articulation and fluentry.
Hospital board urges fund request approval
Donald Lenz, hospital administrator said the commissioners should act quickly because interest rates probably would rise at a rate higher than the projected project will be financed by August.
The trustees briefed the commissioners on the project at a meeting Wednesday.
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees urged city commissioners to issue about $15 million in revenue bonds to help finance the hospital expansion project.
Commissioners also discussed the use of the hospital's south wing after the expansion was completed. Donald Lenz, hospital administrator, said that there was a good chance of using it for doctor's offices or business offices.
Interest rates on the revenue bonds were now estimated at 8.5 per cent, Warren Thorne said.
Commissioners watched a slide show of floor plans for the 180-bed extension
Bert Nash Mental Health Clinic and Halfway House, an alcoholic treatment center, have said they are interested in moving into the wing. Lenz said that the wing would be used for two more years so a final decision could be postponed.
A hospital room rate increases of 7 per cent over a '10 year period would cover operating expenses, Lenz said. Room rates are now $65 a day for a semi-private room.
Financial feasibility studies for the project didn't include a .25 mill tax levy, which is equivalent to about $20,000. Lenk said, because city commission approval is required to purchase of land north of the hospital for the expansion was finance by the .25 mill levy.
When questioned by Mayor Barkley Clark about equipment cost estimates, Lenz said that some equipment from the hospital was not used. He estimated $1.5 million equipment cost to
$800,000. He said 100 old beds would be warranted for expansion and 100 beds would be purchased.
Lenz said a two-story house on land to be used for the expansion had been offered to the Salvation Army if they would relocate it. He said that the house would be down if
Another cost estimate by McBro Architects will be issued next week, Lenz said.
Rioandes said he was sure that the mark 31 estimates for the expansion project would be higher than the actual construction costs.
The board will meet with the city commission periodically through July.
"We treat people with cleft palates who are going to have difficulty, he said. "People who have had a stroke will have speech problems and people with some bearing loss will usually have a speech loss also.
"Some of the communications problems are physical and some are psychological, but most of the problems don't have a definite value. Under the child is a victim of faulty learning.
"Some children with some degree of retardation have speech and hearing problems and usually require special help. In fact, lack of speech development is usually one of the first signs of retardation."
To work as a speech clinician, a person must have a master's degree. Lingwall said. A person must also accumulate 300 hours of supervised training with patients.
"All of our rooms are equipped with one way glass so we can supervise the students' work," be said. "We also have recording and video equipment so the student can go back and see how they and the patients respond in different situations."
The work begins with a series of tests and measures after an initial appraisal, he said.
"Some of the time we and the enlist is just a little slow and doesn't need help," he said.
English department gives honors to 17
Competition for department of English awards and scholarships announced last Friday was "pretty fierce," Roy Gridley, awards committee chairman, said this
Seventeen University of Kansas students from various departments and schools were named recipients of eight awards and 10 honors during the annual honor banquet last week.
Gridley said a large number of students competed for the awards this year. Entries for the William Herbert Curbitt student were submitted by 74 students, he said.
"Unfortunately we could only give four awards." Gridley said.
Gridley said there were two methods of judging the entries. Entrants for the two critical writing awards submitted manuscripts, he said, and these were read by faculty. The five scholarships were decided by a vote of the department faculty.
Oliver Finney, Lawrence graduate student, received the Selden Lincoln Whitcomb Scholarship for the outstanding research output in this field. Lawrence graduate student, received the
Kenneth Rockwell Scholarship for excellence in the study of literature.
Recipients of the Edwin M. Hopkins scholarships for excellence in the study of literature were: Priscilla McKinney, David L. Stewart, Judith Thompson, and Julie Weismann, all Lawrence graduate students.
Recipients of the James B. Kennedy scholarships for excellence in the study of literature were: David Ciolek, Windber, Fa. senior; Ruth Goring, Merriam senior; David Ware, John Roehlman; mann; and Gary L. Taylor, Topka senior. David Eagle, Prairie Village freshman, and Gary L. Taylor, Topka senior, were recipients of the Natalie Calderwood
Amuta Burnet, Lawrence freshman, and Junita Pryor, Lawrence junior, were recipients of the Helen Rhoda Hoopes Critical Writing Award.
Award recipients in the William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry Contest were: William Gallagher, Lawrence graduate student; John Nelson, Little River, Kan.; Laura Gossman, Lawrence graduate student; and Linda D. Warmer, Badwon City sophomore.
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