The work of the Life Span Institute?esearch, service, training, and technical assistance?s accomplished by affiliated Center researchers through projects funded by competitive federal, state, and private grants and contracts.
Some examples:
A multi-million dollar project that supports several years of basic research to prevent and treat intellectual disabilities by many researchers at various sites.
Clinics to diagnose and treat children with disabilities.
A statewide project that gets farmers the assistive technology they need to get back to work after disabling illnesses or accidents.
Training for childcare providers and social workers on how to support individuals with disabilities in their care.
Each project listed below is linked to its website or more information.
Send corrections, comments or questions to kahenry@ku.edu.
PI/Project Director's Last Name A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| No. | Agency | PI/Project Director | Title | Current Project Period |
| 1 | KUMC(USD500) | Abbott, M. | Crossroads to Early Language and Literacy (CELL) | 09-01-06 to 06-30-08 |
| 2 | DE-OESE | Abbott/Atwater | Wyandotte County, Kansas Early Reading First | 09-01-07 to 08-31-10 |
| 3 | UNL(HHS) | Atwater, J. | Midwest Child Care Consortium II: Child Care Providers | 09-30-04 to 09-29-08 |
| 4 | NIDCD | Auer, E. | Perceptual Experience & Spoken Word Recognition | 08-01-04 to 04-30-08 |
| 5 | Georgetown | Baggett, K. | Baby/Child Library: Reading Is Fundamental | 05-11-04 to 05-31-08 |
| 6 | KUMC(WyCo) | Baggett, K. | Project Eagle Community Programs: Healthy Families Wyandotte County | 10-01-06 to 06-30-08 |
| 7 | UnivNoCo | Baggett, K. | Promoting Early Social-Communication for Toddlers with Autism | 08-31-07 to 12-31-07 |
| 8 | ORI(NIMH) | Baggett/Carta | First-Time Parent Interactive Parenting Intervention (Infant-Net) | 03-10-06 to 01-31-08 |
| 9 | UNC/NIDCR | Barlow, S. | Functional Outcomes to Cleft Lip Surgery | 01-01-06 to 12-31-10 |
| 10 | NIDCD | Barlow, S. | Sensorimotor Control of the Human Orofacial System | 01-15-02 to 12-31-07 |
| 11 | KsDE | Bashinski, S. | Inclusive Network for Kansas | 07-01-00 to 06-30-07 |
| 12 | WOregonUniv | Bashinski, S. | Outcomes for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind After Cochlear Implantation | 10-01-05 to 09-30-08 |
| 13 | NIDCD | Brady, N. | Communication Success and AAC | 03-08-07 to 01-31-08 |
| 14 | DE/OSEP | Brady/Bashinski | Promoting Community Outcomes for Children with Deaf-Blindness | 10-01-03 to 09-30-08 |
| 15 | USF/DE-OSEP | Carta, J. | Technical Assistance Center for Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Social-Emotional Development | 01-01-08 to 12-31-12 |
| 16 | KUMC(DE) | Carta, J. | Early Reading First - Wyandotte County, KS | 09-01-04 to 08-31-07 |
| 17 | HHS-ACYF | Carta/Walker/Baggett | Partnerships to Develop Meaningful Outcome Measures - Early Head Start | 09-30-04 to 09-29-07 |
| 18 | HHS/CDC | Carta/Warren | Preventing Child Maltreatment Through a Cellular-Phone Technology | 09-01-06 to 08-31-10 |
| 19 | UoI(NIDCD) | Catts, H. | Diagnosis of Developmental Language Impairment | 08-01-01 to 07-31-07 |
| 20 | NIDCD | Catts/Adlof | Morhphosyntactic Skills of Poor Comprehenders | 09-28-07 to 09-27-08 |
| 21 | JHU(NICHD) | Colombo, J. | Zinc and Biobehavioral Development in Early Childhood | 09-30-04 to 07-31-08 |
| 22 | KUMC-RI | Colombo, J. | DHA Supplemental in Pregnancy Outcomes | 04-04-06 to 01-31-08 |
| 23 | KUMC | Colombo, J. | Mead Johnson Nutritional Research | 01-13-04 to 08-31-07 |
| 24 | UM@C/NIDRR | Cress, P. | Great Plains Disability & Business TA Center | 10-01-01 to 09-30-07 |
| 25 | NIDDK | Donnelly, J. | Long-Term Exercise, Weight Loss and Energy Balance | 07-01-05 to 06-30-10 |
| 26 | KUMC(NIA) | Donnelly, J. | Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Alzheimer's Diseases | 08-15-05 to 06-30-07 |
| 27 | KUMC(PE4Life) | Donnelly, J. | Proposal to Evaluate the "PE 4 Life" Elementary & Middle School Program | 09-15-05 to 09-15-08 |
| 28 | Duke | Donnelly, J. | Long-term Clinical Experience Using a Carbohidrate-Restricted Diet | 09-01-06 to 07-01-07 |
| 29 | KUMC(NIMH) | Donnelly, J. | A Psychiatric Rehabilitaion Approach to Weight Loss | 01-01-07 to 12-31-09 |
| 30 | KUMC(YMCA) | Donnelly, J. | HCF Healthy Lifestyles | 12-02-06 to 11-30-07 |
| 31 | NIDDK | Donnelly, J. | Prevention of Obesity in YMCA After School Programs | 12-01-06 to 05-31-11 |
| 32 | NIDDK | Donnelly, J. | Equivalent Weight Loss for Phone & Clinic Weight Management | 04-01-07 to 03-31-12 |
| 33 | NIH(KUMC) | Donnelly, J. | Breast Cancer Risk Biomarkers and Energy Balance | 04-01-07 to 03-31-09 |
| 34 | NIH(KUMC) | Donnelly, J. | Dairy Foods and Blood Pressure in Multi-Ethnic Children | 09-01-06 to 06-30-08 |
| 35 | NIH(KUMC) | Donnelly, J. | Biostatistics/Informatics Shared Resources | 06-17-07 to 03-31-08 |
| 36 | CMH(Genentech) | Donnelly, J. | Growth Hormone Use in Prader-Willi Syndrome & Obese Adults | 05-23-05 to 05-22-08 |
| 37 | National Institute on Aging | Ekerdt, D. | Household Moves Project: Research about downsizing possessions in later life |
04-01-08 to 03-31-11 |
| 38 | KUMCRI (ATPM) | Fawcett, S. | Development of Undergraduate Courses in Public Health & Epidemiology | 04-01-06 to 12-31-06 |
| 39 | NIDA | Fawcett/et.al | Testing the Community Change Model with Substance Abuse | 08-25-07 to 07-31-09 |
| 40 | NIDCD | Ferguson, S. | Acoustic Correlates of Clear Speech | 12-01-07 to 11-30-10 |
| 41 | NIMH | Fowler, S. | Biophysical Study of Antipsychotics' Behavioral Effects | 12-01-04 to 11-30-09 |
| 42 | KUMC(NIMH) | Fowler, S. | Brain DHA, Dopamine and Behavior: Roles in ADHD | 09-30-04 to 06-30-07 |
| 43 | KsDE | Freeman, R. | Preventing Violence-Building Healthy Schools | 02-01-07 to 05-31-08 |
| 44 | KsDe | Freeman, R. | School-wide Information System (SWIS) Facilitator | 09-01-07 to 12-29-07 |
| 45 | KsSRS | Freeman, R. | Kansas Institute for Positive Behavior Support | 11-01-01 to 10-31-08 |
| 46 | KsDE | Freeman, R. | Implementing School-wide PBS Using a District-wide Leadership Model | 08-01-06 to 07-31-08 |
| 47 | NICHD | Froehlich-Grobe, K. | A Randomized Exercise Trial for Wheelchair Users | 09-01-05 to 06-30-10 |
| 48 | SRI(DE/OSEP) | Greenwood, C. | Center on Outcomes for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Disabilities | 10-01-03 to 09-30-08 |
| 49 | DE/OSEP | Greenwood/Buzhardt | Effects of Progress Monitoring Supported by National Web-based Technology | 11-01-06 to 10-31-09 |
| 50 | DE/OSEP | Greenwood/Buzhardt | Intervention Results for Children with and without Disabilities Ages Birth-3 | 11-01-04 to 06-29-07 |
| 51 | DE/IES | Greenwood/Walker/ Buzhardt | The Infancy to Preschool Early Literacy Connection | 03-01-07 to 02-28-11 |
| 52 | DE/OSEP | Greenwood/Terry | Post-Doctoral Leadership Training Program: Intervention Research | 09-01-04 to 08-31-08 |
| 53 | Infoture | Greenwood/Thiemann | Early Speech Project | 01-01-06 to 08-31-08 |
| 54 | DE/NIDRR | Heitzman-Powell/Buzhardt | Combining Technologies to Maximize Outcomes: Children with Autism | 10-01-06 to 09-30-09 |
| 55 | KsH&E | Hodgesmith, M. | State Implementation Project: Preventing Secondary Conditions | 08-25-05 to 09-30-07 |
| 56 | KsH&E | Hodgesmith, M. | Comprehensive Training: Emergency Response for Persons with Disabilities | 08-31-04 to 03-31-08 |
| 57 | IU(NIH) | Horn/Palmer | Children's School Success | 09-26-03 to 07-31-08 |
| 58 | AAAF | Johnson, T. | Characterizing the Effect of Varying Stimulation Parameters of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions | 07-01-07 to 06-30-08 |
| 59 | USDE/OSEP | Kamps, D. | Center for Early Intervention in Reading & Behavior | 10-01-01 to 09-30-08 |
| 60 | DE/IES | Kamps, D. | Classwide Function-Based Intervention Teams | 07-01-07 to 06-30-11 |
| 61 | NIA | Kemper, S. | Dual Task Costs to Adults' Language Production | 06-15-05 to 05-31-10 |
| 62 | KUMC(NIA) | Kemper, S. | Tracking Older Adults' Eye Movements while Reading | 09-01-03 to 08-31-07 |
| 63 | PSHTC | Lindeman, D. | 07-01-91 to 06-30-08 | |
| 64 | SEK | Lindeman, D. | Dual Diagnosis of Persons with Disabilities | 02-01-93 to 06-30-08 |
| 65 | KsSRS | Lindeman, D. | Active Treatment Training Program | 07-01-87 to 06-30-07 |
| 66 | SEK | Lindeman, D. | SEK-CAP | 10-01-01 to 06-30-07 |
| 67 | KsDE | Lindeman, D. | KITS Statewide Inservice/Technical Assistance System | 07-01-93 to 06-30-07 |
| 68 | KsH&E | Lindeman, D. | KITS - Infant and Toddler Expansion | 07-01-98 to 06-30-08 |
| 69 | KSDE | Lindeman, D. | ECHO Consortium II | 07-01-06 to 06-30-08 |
| 70 | KsDE | Lindeman, D. | Kansas Family Service Coordination Training Project | 07-01-07 to 06-30-08 |
| 71 | USF/DE | Marquis, J. | Research in Special Education | 03-15-07 to 09-30-08 |
| 72 | NIH(KUMC) | Marquis, J. | Describing and Measuring Tobacco Treatment in Drug Treatment | 07-20-07 to 06-30-08 |
| 73 | KsDE | Marquis, J. | School Readiness Project | 10-01-05 to 12-08-07 |
| 74 | HCFofGKC | McCart, A. | Integrating Effective Evidence-Based Approaches for At-Risk Families | 06-01-06 to 09-01-07 |
| 75 | KsSRS | Olson, K. | Kansas College of Direct Support | 11-01-06 to 10-31-08 |
| 76 | DE/WEEA | Parent, W. | Women's Educational Equity Program | 10-02-05 to 09-30-09 |
| 77 | APBS | Parent, W. | APBS Conference Planning | 09-01-06 to 04-30-08 |
| 78 | KsSRS | Rea, J. | SEK Pilot Project to Replicate Oregon Model for Antisocial Youth Families | 07-21-05 to 06-30-08 |
| 79 | NIDCD | Rice, M. | Morphosyntactic Abilities of SLI Probands | 12-01-04 to 11-30-09 |
| 80 | NIDCD | Rice, M. | Biobehavioral Sciences in Communication Disorders | 09-23-02 to 08-31-12 |
| 81 | Tulane | Rice, M. | Pediatric HIV/Aids Cohort Study (PHACS) | 09-30-05 to 07-31-07 |
| 82 | KKI-NIH | Rice, M. | Autism: Social and Communication Predictors in Siblings | 01-01-07 to 12-31-11 |
| 83 | NIDCD | Rice, M. | Training Researchers in Language Impairments | 07-01-07 to 06-30-12 |
| 84 | NIDCD | Rice, M. | Twins and Singletons with Specific Language Impairment | 07-01-07 to 06-30-12 |
| 85 | UoI(NIDCD) | Rice, M. | Diagnosis of Developmental Language Impairment | 08-01-01 to 07-31-07 |
| 86 | KsSRS | Sack, S. | Equipment Exchange: Increasing Access to Durable Medical Equipment | 03-01-03 to 06-30-08 |
| 87 | USDE/RSA | Sack, S. | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | 10-01-05 to 09-30-08 |
| 88 | USDE/NIDRR | Sack, S. | Expanding Assistive Technology Reutilization Efforts to Include Organizational, Navigational, and High-Cost Technologies | 10-01-06 to 09-30-09 |
| 89 | KsH&E | Sack, S. | Tiny K-Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Center | 07-01-07 to 06-30-08 |
| 90 | KHPA | Sack, S. | Assisting Medicaid Beneficiaries in Accessing Assistive Technology | 11-01-07 to 10-31-08 |
| 91 | KsSRS | Sack, S. | Assistive Technology Program | 07-01-98 to 06-30-11 |
| 92 | USDE/RSA | Sack, S. | Kansas Alternative Financing Program | 10-01-03 to 09-30-09 |
| 93 | USDE/RSA | Sack, S. | Kansas Telework Program | 10-01-03 to 09-30-09 |
| 94 | KsGovernor | Sack, S. | Kansas Alternative Financing Program | 10-01-03 to 09-30-09 |
| 95 | KsGovernor | Sack, S. | Kansas Telework Program | 10-01-03 to 09-30-09 |
| 96 | KsSRS | Sack/Spellman | Increasing Availability of Assistive Technology to Kansans | 10-01-99 to 09-29-07 |
| 97 | UofO/DE | Sailor/McCart | Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports | 10-01-03 to 09-30-08 |
| 98 | DE/OSEP | Sailor/McCart | Tertiary Intervention: the K-I Center | 10-03-06 to 12-31-10 |
| 99 | NICHD | Saunders, K. | Recombinative Generalization of Within-syllable Units in MR | 07-01-06 to 06-30-11 |
| 100 | Special Olympics | Saunders, M & R | Pilot Evaluation of Special Olympics Health Athletes | 07-01-07 to 06-30-08 |
| 101 | KsDD | Saunders, R. | Reducing the Incidence of Obesity in Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Kansas | 10-01-06 to 09-30-09 |
| 102 | NICHD | Saunders, R. | Communication of People with Mental Retardation | 12-01-06 to 11-30-11 |
| 103 | KsSRS | Schultz, J. | Community Monitoring Documentation System | 09-01-02 to 06-30-08 |
| 104 | Ind USD 446 | Smith, C. | Kids Crew: The Independence Community Learning Center | 09-01-03 to 08-31-08 |
| 105 | KsSRS | Smith, C. | Kansas Early Head Start Proposal | 06-01-07 to 06-30-08 |
| 106 | HRSA | Steele, R. | Effectiveness of a Treatment for Pediatric Obesity | 01-01-06 to 12-31-09 |
| 107 | NIDCD | Storkel, H. | Word Learning in Children: Normal Development & Language Impairment | 05-01-06 to 04-30-11 |
| 108 | NIDCD | Storkel, H. | The Mental Lexicon of Children with Phonological Delays | 01-01-04 to 12-31-07 |
| 109 | Thiemann | Describing the Home Language Learning Environment of Toddlers with Down Syndrome Using the LENA System | to 9-30-08 | |
| 110 | USDE/NIDRR | Turnbull, A. | Investigating Communities of Practice | 02-01-07 to 04-30-08 |
| 111 | UNC/DE | Turnbull, A. | Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge | 01-01-08 to 12-31-12 |
| 112 | USDE/NIDRR | Turnbull, H.R. | Research and Training Center on Policies Affecting Families | 11-01-03 to 10-31-08 |
| 113 | DE-OSEP | Utley, C. | Making Ecobehavioral Assessment Tools Web-based | 07-01-07 to 06-30-09 |
| 114 | USDE/OSEP | Utley, C. | Preparation of Minority Leadership Personnel: SpEd Doctoral Training | 07-01-03 to 06-30-08 |
| 115 | NIDCD | Vitevitch, M. | Processing Neighbors in Speech Perception and Production | 07-01-04 to 05-31-09 |
| 116 | USDE/OSEP | Walker, D. | Center for Promoting Language and Literacy Readiness in Early Childhood | 01-01-08 to 12-31-11 |
| 117 | MO Head Start | Walker, D. | Training & Technical Assistance Support for Adminstering Early Childhood Indicator Assessment | 09-01-06 to 10-31-07 |
| 118 | USDE/OSEP | Walker/Greenwood | Developing and Testing Meaningful Outcomes Measures for Infants & Toddlers | 01-01-05 to 12-31-08 |
| 119 | KsSRS | Walker/JC/CG | Evaluation Workscope of Early Communication Indicators | 06-01-02 to 10-31-07 |
| 120 | DE-OSEP | Walker/Warren | Center for Promoting Language & Literacy Readiness in Early Childhood | 01-01-08 to 12-31-11 |
| 121 | KUMC(NIDCD) | Warren, S. | Effects of Intensity of Early Communication Intervention | 08-01-05 to 07-31-10 |
| 122 | NICHD | Warren, S. | Kansas Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC) | 07-01-06 to 06-30-11 |
| 123 | UNC/NICHD | Warren/Brady | Family Adaptation to Fragile X Syndrome | 07-01-03 to 06-30-08 |
| 124 | UND(NIH) | Warren/Carta | Preventing Child Neglect in High-Risk Mothers | 09-12-03 to 08-31-08 |
| 125 | DairyMan, Inc | Washburn | Whey Protein Supplementation | 07-01-07 to 06-30-10 |
| 126 | USDE/OSEP | Wegner, J. | Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ACTS) | 01-01-05 to 12-31-08 |
| 127 | USDE/NIDRR | Wehmeyer, M. | The Impact of Interventions on Self-Determination & Adult Outcomes | 10-01-03 to 09-30-08 |
| 128 | Univ.ofCo. | Wehmeyer, M. | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Cognitive Disabilities | 10-01-04 to 09-30-09 |
| 129 | HHS-ADD | Wehmeyer, M. | Kansas University Center on DD (KUCDD) | 07-01-73 to 06-30-12 |
| 130 | DE-IES | Wehmeyer, M. | Determining the Efficacy of the Self-Determined Model | 07-01-07 to 06-30-09 |
| 131 | USDE/NIDRR | Wehmeyer, M. | Mental Retardation and Technology Disability and Rehabilitation Research | 10-01-01 to 09-30-07 |
| 132 | USDE/OSEP | Wehmeyer, M. | Beyond High School: Replicating Self-Determination into 18-21 Services | 10-01-03 to 09-30-07 |
| 133 | OHSU(NIDRR) | White, G. | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Health & Wellness for Persons with Long-Term Disabilities | 10-01-04 to 09-30-09 |
| 134 | USDE/NIDRR | White, G. | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Communitiy Living | 10-01-06 to 09-30-11 |
| 135 | KUMC(Reeves) | White, G. | Action Plan to Improve the Quality & Quantity of Data about Paralysis | 10-01-04 to 09-30-07 |
| 136 | ATPM/CDC | White/Fox | Disaster Response Training to Help Disabled Persons | 09-30-02 to 03-31-07 |
| 137 | NICHD | Williams, D. | Laboratory Models of Maladaptive Escape Behavior | 06-01-05 to 05-31-10 |
| 138 | KKI-NIH | Williams, D. | Translational Research on Non-contingent Reinforcement Interventions | 05-01-07 to 04-30-08 |
| 139 | AbleLink | Williams-Diehm, K. | Rocket Reader | 01-01-07 to 06-30-07 |
| 140 | USDE/OSEP | Wills/Kamps/Greenwood | Secondary and Tertiary Level Intervention in School-Wide PBS | 01-01-05 to 12-31-09 |
