Monday, March 5, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Project to ease mainstreaming
By MARK GATES Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is trying to make mainstreaming easier for teachers.
KU is directing a three-year project to train music in children and teach children who will be included in classical music classes.
Mainstreaming is the inclusion of handicapped children in regular classroom activities.
The law provides for:
Handicapped children are guaranteed a place in regular classrooms with their peers because of Public Law 941-82.
- Legal safeguards and due process in the evaluation of handicapped children
- Placement in the “least restrictive environment” allowing the handicapped child to stay in normal school.
- Development of an individual educational plan for each handicapped child.
- Formal plans to be made by every state and locality
so that handicapped children are included in regular classrooms.
IF SCHOOLS fail to comply, federal funding will be withheld.
George Duerkens, professor of music education, is in charge of an eight-person staff working on the federally funded Music Mainstreaming Project. Duerkens received a grant for the project last September.
KU provides between 10 and 20 percent of the project's $150 000 cost, he said.
"Many teachers feel inadequate because they do not understand the mind set of the handicapped student." Deuerken said recently. "We hope to bridge that communication gap by developing slide presentations to help teachers understand the child's world and to show how to meet their needs.
"Greater flexibility and adaptability is required of instructors. Handicapped children vary in needs. Some are crippled or blind or deaf or slightly retarded or have hearing impairments or limitations do not affect the child's academic potential."
KANSAS HAS had a law similar to the federal law since
compliance warten greatly among school district.
DISTRICT.
Lawrence schools have complied with the Kauai law for some time, said Don Herbel, director of special services at the school.
The federal law requires a committee to develop the child's educational plan, something not required by the state law. The committees are to include teachers, administrators, parents, and if possible, the child.
"H handicapped kids are placed in the classroom to whatever extent they are capable of functioning." Herbel said. "We try to integrate them into the mainstream as much as possible without hurting their education."
The project also will help music teachers deal with emotionally disturbed children in large classes.
"Traditional preparation for teachers has not involved working with handicapped children," he said. "What teachers are really asking for is a better means of teaching to students who are less experienced and setting will lead to the best education for them."
Carlin criticizes bill to realign districts
TOPEKA-Gov. John Carlin. Friday criticized legislation that would change voting districts throughout Kansas but stopped short of saying he would veto the bill.
The bill would change the boundaries of the 125 districts that comprise the Kansas State.
An amended form of the bill, which tentatively passed the House last week, would divide the KU student voting population, from the nonvoting support for Democratic State Rep. Mike Glover.
Glover has said the amendment represented an attempt to gerrymander students and would threaten his chances for reelection.
State Rep. John Vogel, R-Lawrence, who proposed the amendment, said it would bring the western parts of Lawrence together in one district.
Carlin agreed with Glover that the amendment was a political move.
"I'm quite concerned with the changes made on the floor of the House," Carlin said. "It's pretty obvious there is nothing but pure politics involved."
Carlin said technical changes in the bill would have to be made before it would materialize.
"I hope the House will not assume it does with its map drawing," he said.
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But Carlin said he had not made a decision on whether he would not the bill as it was.
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Lawrence police reported an armed robbery and two burglaries over the weekend. The Douglas County Sheriff's office responded to a double burglary at Douglas County State Lake Saturday.
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BURGLARIES
Lawrence police said jewelry valued at $1,075 and coins valued at $219 had been stolen from a residence in the 2800 block of Schwartz Road late Friday.
ARMED ROBBERY
—Compiled by David Edds
The police said the occupants of the
residence had returned home early
Saturday morning and found a window
with a small porch.
Lawrence police and the Burns Retail liquor stores, 1917 W. 24th, had been searched.
They said a 35 mm camera valued at $200 and jewelry valued at $190 belonging to Sarah M. Sherman, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, been stolen from the unlocked apartment.
Lawrence police said an apartment at 145 Tennessee St., had been burglarized.
According to police, the men entered the score at about 11 p.m. and one of them held a rifle.
The two men got away with $60 in cash and a half pint of liquor.
The police said last night they had no one in custody in connection with the robbery.
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3 KU students plead not guilty
Three KU students were arraigned Friday in Douglas County District Court on charges stemming from several thefts in August and September.
The students are Philip Anderson and Paul O'Connor, Galesburg, Ill., sophomores, and Larry McNeil, Lawrence sophomore.
The three pleaded not guilty to the charges. Anderson will face trial in the Douglas County District Court March 14, OConnor and McNeill will be adjourned April 30.
Anderson is charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of theft in connection with a break-in at KU's design studio. The Dalary Bairn on West 19th Street last August.
He is accused also of stealing film equipment from Jolliffe Hall in September. O'Connor is charged with aiding in that theft.
O'Connor and McNeil are charged with the theft of a motorcycle in September in 2015.
The three are free on bail.
Jury trial set for 16-year-old
A 16-year-old youth, Charles Hunter, 1234 Tennessee St., will face a jury trial April 18. Hunter is charged with 14 felonies in contempt of court and arraignments, and sexual assaults in December.
Hunter stood mute to the charges during his formal arraignment Friday before Douglas County District Court Judge James Paddock.
The judge entered a plea of not guilty for Hunter for each charge.
Hunter is being tried as an adult