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Lifeline Online Spring 2009 Issue 102  FEATURED A recent study by two LSI investigators in the journal Development Psychobiology recently reported that pupil size in the eyes of children may be used to identify those with Autism Spectrum Disorders earlier than the typical three years of age. Read the full story. A new scientific society devoted to oromotor development in premature infants was officially created at a recent meeting at KU under the leadership of LSI investigator Steven Barlow. Read the full story. The new three-story 72,000-square foot Children’s Campus in Kansas City, Kan., is starting to take shape on the corner of 5th and Minnesota Avenue. Read the full story. IN THE NEWS A story in the Boston Globe about how we are learning more about the brains of babies quoted LSI Director John Colombo. Read the full story. When U.S. News and World Report needed an expert for a story on the employability of teenagers with autism, they turned to LSI’s Wendy Parent. Read the full story. RESEARCH IN ACTION Judy Carta and Charles Greenwood, Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, are collaborating with colleagues in Australia on the use of a website measurement tool developed by JGCP researchers. Read the full story. LSI at Parsons helped organize an electronic recycling event for residents of a five-county area that saved tons of stuff from going to landfills. Read the full story. ADMINISTRATIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS LSI centers may now have their own “signatures” for stationery, websites and print materials. Read the full story. HONORS Two former KU doctoral students who worked with LSI-affiliated scientists received top honors at the annual meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children. Read the full story. MILESTONES Long-time Parsons Jill-of-all Trades Pat White was among the recent retirees honored by KU. Read the full story. |
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT NEWS New Awards (not previously funded) Information 1. Debra Kamps received a new, one-year subcontract award “Autism Research Program” from KUMCRI, PIs Linda Heitzman-Powell and Matthew Reese, prime contractor to KsSRS that began April 1, 2008. 2. Jerry Schultz and Stephen Fawcett received a new, one-year award “DELTA PREP Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and Leadership Through Alliances Expansion Program” from the CDC Foundation that began January 1, 2009. 3. Rik Washburn, Joe Donnelly, Bryan Smith, Janet Marquis, Debra Sullivan and Heather Leidy received a new, four-year award “Resistance Training Energy Balance and Weight Management” from NIDDK that began April 1, 2009. 4. John Colombo received a new, two-year RO3 award “Pupil Size and Circadian Salivary Variations in Autism Spectrum Disorders” from NIMH that began April 7, 2009. 5. Kate Saunders and John Colombo received a new, five-year award “Postdoctoral Training in Translational IDD Research” from NICHD that began May 1, 2009. 6. Joe Donnelly received a new, one-year award “Obesity Training Workshop” from the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund that will begin on July 1, 2009. There are another half-dozen new awards in which we are waiting for agency documents or prime contractor subcontracts. We will report these in the next issue. Past Submissions not Previously Reported 1. Mabel Rice resubmitted her five-year renewal “Morphosyntactic Abilities of SLI Probands and Families” to NIDCD on March 5. 2. Wendy Parent submitted a new, three-year subcontract proposal “Integrated Community Systems for Youth with Special Health Care Needs” to the KsH&E, prime contractor to HHS-HRSA on March 6. 3. Jerry Schultz and Steve Fawcett submitted a new, three-year proposal “Enhancing the Latino Health for All Partnership’s Effort to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in Wyandotte County” to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City on March 11. 4. Ric Steele submitted a new, two-year proposal “Responding to the Crisis: Development of an Assessment Tool for School Nurse Communication about Weight-Related Health” to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City on March 11. 5. Mike Wehmeyer, Dave Lindeman and Matt Reese submitted their 38-year continuation of the “Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities (KUCDD)” to HHS-ACF-ADD on March 13. 6. Todd Little resubmitted a two-year, subcontract proposal “Parenting and Low-Income, Urban Youth’s Adjustment: Reciprocity and Variability” to Johns Hopkins, prime contractor to NIH, on March 16. 7. John Colombo submitted his four-year continuation “DHA Supplementation and Pregnancy Outcomes” via KUMC, PI Susan Carlson, prime contractor to NICHD, on March 18. 8. Mabel Rice submitted her five-year continuation “Pediatric HIV/Aids Cohort Study (PHACS)” to Tulane University, prime contractor to NIDCD, on March 27. 9. Dale Walker submitted her final report on “Developing and Testing a Model for the Use of Meaningful Outcome Measures for Infants and Toddlers” to DE-OSERS on March 31. 10. Jane Wegner submitted her final report on “Augmentative and Alternative Communication” to DE-OSERS on March 31. 11. Susan Kemper submitted her five-year continuation “Dual Task Costs to Adults’ Language Production” to NIA on April 1. 12. Dean Williams submitted his five-year continuation “Laboratory Models of Maladaptive Escape Behavior” to NICHD on April 1. 13. Jean Ann Summers submitted her five-year continuation “Inclusive Network of Kansas (INKS): Field Based Technical Assistance and Professional Development” to KsDE on April 1. 14. David Lindeman submitted his four-year continuation “Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)” to KsDE on April 1. 15. Richard and Muriel Saunders, Kandace Fleming and Marilyn Ault submitted a new two-year proposal “Walking Across Kansas: Exercising to Learn” to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on April 8. 16. Katherine Froehlich-Grobe, Todd Little, Ric Washburn and Patricia Kluding at KUMC submitted a new, two-year proposal “Wii Sports: Assistive Technology for Exercise in Spinal Cord Injury” to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on April 8. 17. Andre Courtemanche (Jan Sheldon, sponsor), submitted a new, two-year F31 “Functional Assessment of Response to Naltrexone for Self-Injury” to NIH on April 8. 18. Jean Ann Summers submitted her second-year GPR “Kansas State Deaf-Blind Project” to DE-OSERS on April 17. 19. Charles Greenwood submitted his three-year GPR “Effects of Progress Monitoring Supported by National Web-based Technology on the Intervention Results of Infants and Toddlers with/without Disabilities Ages Birth to Three” to DE-OSERS on April 17. 20. Wayne Sailor submitted his four-year GPR “Tertiary Intervention: the K-1 Center” to DE-OSERS on April 17. 21. Dale Walker submitted her two-year GPR “Center for Promoting Language and Literacy Readiness in Early Childhood…” to DE-OSERS on April 17. 22. Steve Warren and Nancy Brady submitted their six-year continuation “Family Adaptation to Fragile X Syndrome” to UNC, prime contractor to NICHD, on April 17. 23. Wendy Parent submitted her two-year continuation “ABPS Support Web Development/Maintenance” to APBS on April 20. 24. Kathleen Baggett submitted a new, three-year proposal “Translation of Evidence Based Practice Child Maltreatment Intervention: Supporting Community Infrastructure” to CDC on April 21. 25. Mabel Rice submitted an ARRA Administrative Supplement for her “Morphosyntactic Abilities of SLI Probands and Families” to NIDCD on April 22. 26. Mabel Rice submitted a second ARRA Administrative Supplement for her “Twins and Singletons with Specific Language Impairments” to NIDCD on April 22. 27. Mabel Rice submitted a third ARRA Administrative Supplement for Equipment on her “Morphosyntactic Abilities of SLI Probands and Families” to NIDCD on April 22. 28. Sara Ferguson submitted an ARRA Administrative Supplement for her “Acoustic Correlates of Clear Speech” to NIDCD on April 22. 29. Steve Barlow submitted an ARRA Administrative Supplement for his “Sensorimotor Control of the Human Orofacial System” to NIDCD on April 22. 30. Nancy Brady submitted an ARRA Administrative Supplement for her “Communication Success and AAC” to NIDCD on April 22. 31. Ed Auer submitted an ARRA Administrative Supplement subcontract “Visual Speech Perception and Neural Processing” to the House Ear Institute, prime contractor to NIDCD, on April 22. 32. Sara Sack submitted a new, three-year proposal “Inclusive Community Gardening: Food, Exercise, Friends and Maybe Money” to DE-OSERS-RSA on April 24. 33. Jane Wegner submitted her second-year GPR “Communication, Autism and Technology” to DE-OSERS on April 24. 34. Jay Buzhardt submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant “Preliminary Investigation of Infant and Toddler Autism Screening Tools” on April 27. 35. Kathleen Baggett submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant subcontract “An Innovative Tool to Prevent Violence toward Children in Latino Families” to ORI, prime contractor, on April 27. 36. Richard and Muriel Saunders submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant “Analyzing a Diet Plan for Adults with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities” on April 27. 37. Ric Steele submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant “Use of Technology to Enhance Treatment Outcomes for Adolescents with Obesity” on April 27. 38. Nancy Muma submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant “Gene Expression and Epigenetics: Low SERT Genotype X Environment Across Development” on April 27. 39. Rud Turnbull and Matthew Stowe submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant “State of the States’ Policies on Autism Spectrum Disorders” on April 27. 40. Steve Fawcett and Jerry Schultz submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant “Testing a Health for All Model in Rural Communities” on April 27. 41. Steve Warren submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant subcontract “Automatic Screening for Autism in 18-to-24 Month-Old Children” to the LENA Foundation, prime contractor to NIH, on April 27. 42. Steve Fowler submitted a new, two-year ARRA-NIH Challenge Grant subcontract from KUMC, prime contractor to NIH, on April 27. 43. Kathleen Baggett and Kathryn Bigelow submitted a new, three-year proposal “Mental Health and Family Support Program” to the Family Conservancy, prime contractor to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, on April 29. 44. John Colombo and Peter Smith submitted their 43-year continuation “Kansas Intellectual and Development Disabilities Research Center” to NICHD on May 1. 45. Mabel Rice submitted her eight-year continuation “Twins and Singletons with Specific Language Impairment” to NIDCD on May 1. 46. Steve Barlow submitted his 12-year continuation “Sensorimotor Control of the Human Orofacial System” to NIDCD on May 1. 47. Katherine Froehlich-Grobe submitted her five-year continuation “A Randomized Exercise Trail for Wheelchair Users” to NICHD on May 1. 48. Kathryn Saunders submitted her four-year continuation “Recombinative Generalization of Within-syllable Units in MR” to NICHD on May 1. 49. Joseph Donnelly et al. submitted their five-year continuation “Long-Term Exercise, Weight Loss and Energy Balance” to NIDDK on May 1. 50. Joseph Donnelly et al. submitted their three-year continuation “Prevention of Obesity in YMCA After School Programs” to NIDDK on May 1. 51. Joseph Donnelly et al. submitted their three-year continuation “Equivalent Weight Loss for Phone and Clinic Weight Management” to NIDDK on May 1. 52. David Ekerdt submitted an ARRA-Administrative Supplement “Downsizing Possessions for Residential Moves in Later Life” to NIA on May 1. |