Friday, March 26.1965 University Daily Kansan
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Education of Retarded
Lloyd M. Dunn, professor of special education at George Peabody College in Tennessee, will speak on the "New Approaches to the Education of the Mentally Retarded and Slow Learning Children" Monday.
This special education expert is the co-editor of the new experimental edition of the Peabody Language Kit, a series of lessons with materials to be used to stimulate or further develop the language abilities of the culturally deprived, slow learning or mentally retarded children.
Dunn, who holds the title of "fellow," which is the highest honor bestowed on a member in the American Association on Mental Deficiency, is scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. in 303 Bailey Hall.
As a member of President John F. Kennedy's special committee on mental retardation, he studied recommendations for a national plan for the mentally retarded. In the past two years Dunn has also visited and reported on programs for exceptional children in England, Spain, Russia and Africa.
KU Navy Engineer Honored
A KU Engineering and Naval ROTC student, James Dean Hubbard, Cedar Vale, is one of 15 college students among 52 colleges and universities having Naval ROTC units selected to receive the Engineering Award given by the Society of American Military Engineers.
The award is given in recognition of meritorious academic achievement of engineering students to stress the important contribution engineering makes to national security. The final selections for the award, "The Society ROTC Gold Medal With Key Replica," are made by a board of qualified engineers appointed by the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.
He is the Operations Officer of the Naval ROTC Battalion of Midshipmen. Upon being graduated in the spring, he will be commissioned in the Navy and will be ordered to active duty.
Students Study Japan
The Japanese-American Club will have an informal panel discussion on "Japan in the Eyes of Young Americans" at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
The panel discussion leaders will be Charles Berg, Leawood sophomore; John Sloboda, Linden, N.J., sophomore, and two graduate students: John Featherstone and Mrs. J. B. Tiedeman.
All of the panel discussion leaders have been to the islands of Japan at some time and will present their impressions of Japan, said Yusuke Kamarabayashi, graduate student from Kyoto, Japan, and president of the Japanese-American Club.
The public is invited.
KU-Y Elects Officers
Jim Perkins, Prairie Village sophomore, and Vinita Fishel, Overland Park junior, were elected the 1965-66 officers of the KU-Y last night.
Other officers are Joy Chatlain, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and Jerry Cochran, Harper sophomore, co-vice-presidents; Pat Goering, Moundridge sophomore, and Byron Miller, Greensburg junior, co-secretaries-treasurers.
Courses Now Open to Aid Study
There are two courses in the School of Education which are offered to help the student to improve himself that are now open for enrollment.
A course in speed reading and another in improving study skills are designed to help the student do better in his home work.
enrollments will be accepted until the beginning of the spring vacation. Anyone wishing to join either or both classes may do so in Room 102 in Bailey Hall.
Both courses are now open for enrollment for the second half of this semester. The reading course will start on March 29 and meet every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for six weeks. The study course will hold its first session on March 30 and meet for five weeks on every Tuesday and Thursday.
RICHARD E. SHORES, director of the reading and study clinic, said
In explaining the function of the rapid reading clinic, Prof. Shores said, "College students become involved with the intensive reading needed in class work and this carried over into regular reading.
"We try to give them help in reading light material much more rapidly."
This is done by two machines, Shores said. One is the tachistoscope used to broaden the perceptive and tries to teach the student to become a phrase reader.
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The Speed Reading Association reading book is also used to measure both speed and comprehension.
The study skills course is designed primarily for freshmen who have difficulty in their school work. The course teaches the student intensive reading, note taking, and review.
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