UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, July 19, 1995
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Special ed ABLE to help children
By Luby Montano-Laurel Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas' special education department is finishing a multimedia package that could help disabled children.
Analyzing Behavior State ane Learning Environments, or ALEB, is an assessment program that has been in development at KU for nine years. The program helps analyze the various behavioral states of those with multiple disabilities and is aimed toward professionals who work with disabled children.
Doug Guess, professor of special education and the program's project director, said that the idea developed with intense research and team work.
"ABLE will help teachers, parents, doctors and any other person who is in contact with a disabled child," Guess said. "This program can better teach them to work with these students' levels of alertness and responsiveness."
ABLE will train teachers to collect data in classroom situations
and use this information to design useful teaching methods for disabled children.
"The bottom line here is to help the disabled students," Guess said. "With ABLE, we train the teachers, and they can better help the students."
For nine years, the special education department has been training educators with the program through lectures and workshops. In two months, it also will be on CD-ROM, said Susan Bashinski, program coordinator.
The CD-ROM version will consist of several facets, including assessment of behavioral states, learning environment analysis, medication analysis, analysis and interpretation procedures, learning environment characteristics analysis, case studies and tests.
Bashinski said that the CD-ROM version was a product of hard work from researchers, doctors, physical therapists, special education students, professors and computer specialists.
and program specialist, said that the program was amazing.
"We truly have a multimedia program that, when we finish it, should be able to reach professionals at their own home." Wibrand said. "It has been hard work."
Ture Wibrand, Lawrence senior
Bashinski said that with the CD-ROM version, teachers could work at their own pace.
"With the CD-ROM, teachers can go back and study the same issue over," Bashinski said. "Now they don't have to be in a workshop to learn it."
But Guess said that the program had some serious drawbacks.
"Not everyone has a computer and a CD-ROM to run the program," "Guess said."
He said that another problem was that the program took a lot of time. It takes about 30 hours to complete.
"We still have a long way to go in developing good programs to help the disabled students," Guess said. "Although ABLE is an excellent program, we still have to do a lot better."
Design professor plans fall return
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
A KU professor will teach again this fall after having a heart attack last spring.
Victor Papanek, Constant professor of architecture and urban design, suffered a heart attack on Feb. 20 and then contracted pneumonia. Since that time, he has been in and out of the hospital.
"He, fortunately, has had a successful period of recovery from a very serious condition," said John Gaunt, dean of architecture and urban design.
Gaunt said that, as a distinguished professor with a well-deserved
national and international reputation, Papanek's absence left a gap in the School of Architecture and Urban
Design.
Victor Papanek
Papanek, who is known for his common-sense approach to design, has written eight books that have been published internationally. His most popular book, "Design for the Real World."
has been translated into 23 languages, making it one of the most widely read design books in the
world.
Zahir Poonawala, Lawrence graduate student, received an incomplete in one of Papanek's classes because he refused to finish the class without the professor.
"It was the worst part of the semester," Poonawala said. "No one can teach Victor's classes the way he does."
Poonawala plans to retake the class when Papanek returns.
This fall, Papanek will teach seminars on Native-American architecture as well as design ethics.
However, he will not be teaching the introductory architecture class. Steve Grabow, professor of architecture and urban design, will take his place.
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