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LSI affiliated scientist Nancy Hamilton discusses her research on fibromyalgia and how it may, in fact, be a sleep disorder.

 

John Colombo explains baby brains in Boston Globe.

 

Associated Press reports: KU study on new communication strategy for children with deaf-blindness by Nancy Brady and Susan Bashinski

Work Group Director Steve Fawcett gives advice to community-minded women who read Self Magazine.

KU's Wendy Parent, expert on employment of people with disabilites, tapped by US News and World Report series

 

 

Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training researchers interviewed for Fox 4 story

LSI investigator Yolanda Jackson is interviewed for a story on the likelihood that sexual predators know their young victims.

Glen White, director of the Research and Training Center on Independent Living, organized a conference in Peru for people with disabilities, his 14th trip to the country since 1998.

KU autism center pilot grants support innovative research and collaboration

Life Span researcher David K. Johnson links exercise with protection against Alzheimer's.
- Lawrence Journal-World

Ross and Marianna Beach, for whom the Beach Center on Disability is named, have received an award from the KU Department of Special Education for their efforts to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Deb Kamps honored with KU Research Achievement Award

 

Holly Storkel sees advantages of signing with toddlers.

Both her research expertise and personal experience as the mother of a child with cleft lip and palate give Holly Storkel, an LSI investigator in speech language and hearing, a unique perspective on using sign language with young children.

 

Life Span Institute mourns longtime employee Jay Turnbull

Research by Life Span researcher David Johnson is showing that aerobic exercise could stave off the devastating effects of Alzheimer's disease.

K-CART affiliated scientist Winnie Dunn, chair of the occupational therapy education department at the KU Medical Center, was interviewed November 5 by Kansas City television station Fox 4 about a controversial new treatment for autism.
Fox 4 News >>

 

A project co-directed by Michael L. Wehmeyer, director of the Kansas
University Center on Developmental Disabilities, has received a $4 million
grant for a national training program to assist people with disabilities.

Ground broken for groundbreaking Children's Campus of Kansas City

Staker and Greenwood led effort for model urban research and service center
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CBS Evening News: Gerontology researcher Kristine Williams says "elderspeak" by caregivers harmful.
NY Times: Elderspeak to seniors begins a downward spiral for older persons

Charles Greenwood, director of Juniper Gardens Children's Project, senior scientist and professor of applied behavioral science, is one of two KU professors who have received a prestigious Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Award for 2008.

John Colombo named director of KU's Life Span Institute

John Colombo, interim director of the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at the University of Kansas since March 1, has been named to the position on a permanent basis, effective immediately. more>>>

A device invented at KU by a team led by Steven Barlow aids preemies with feeding problem and holds promise for disability prevention.
- MedPageToday

Dorothy Nary shares personal experience with campus accessibility

 

KU and Children's Mercy Hospital open children's obesity research center and clinic; Donnelly directs

$2.1 million grant to pursue Alzheimer drug research to LSIKIDDRC affiliates Michaelis, Fowler

$10 million to Juniper Gardens' Greenwood and Carta

Two Life Span Institute researchers receive $1.6 grant to help infants and toddlers with disabilities develop communication, language and early literacy skills.

Work Group honored by Kansas Public Health Association

The Work Group for Community Health and Development at the Life Span Institute has received the 2008 Corporate Public Health Service Award from the Kansas Public Health Association.

Presented annually to a company or organization which, through policies and activities, makes a significant contribution to the mission of public health and environmental improvement in Kansas, the award recognizes the Work Group’s Community Tool Box, which is a free web-based source of information on community health and development.  It has been recognized around the world as an effective tool to improve public health and leverage social change.

The KU Work Group is a designated World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for Community Health and Development.

The award will be presented September 18 in Topeka, Kan.

The Work Group for Community Health and Development has received more than
$60,000 for its Community Tool Box project to complete the translation of
its materials into Spanish.

Glen White, director of the Research and Training Center on Independent Living at LSI, has received the prestigious Kemper Fellowship in Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas.

KU researcher finds most, but not all, late-talking toddlers catch up

 

The first graduate of KU’s interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Gerontology has received national attention for her research on the effects of “elderspeak” with Alzheimer’s patients.
- Good Morning America
- Lawrence Journal World

Colombo named interim director of Life Span Institute

 

Chronicle of Higher Education: Rice cautious on effect of poverty on child language development

 

NY Times Sunday Magazine: Rice weighs in on new speech device inspired by 1995 KU study

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