The Life Span Institute (LSI), as the largest of the University of Kansas designated research centers, is central to training the next generation of researchers, educators and practitioners in the behavioral sciences and related disciplines, and to ensure the vitality and standing of the research mission of the University.

What follows is a snapshot of the academic training activities that the Life Span Institute sponsors including two affiliated multidisciplinary graduate/doctoral programs with combined enrollment of 10, several pre- and post-doctoral training programs that currently support 30 trainees, as well as 75 graduate research assistants.

For more information, KU Research and Graduate Studies:

• Post -doctoral training
• Graduate Students

Life Span Institute degree-granting programs

Child Language Doctoral Program

Gerontology Graduate Program

Current pre- and post-doctoral training programs

Training Researchers in Language Impairments (Pre-Doctoral)

Director: Mabel Rice, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health

Post-Doctoral Leadership Training Program in Intervention Research for Culturally/Linguistically
Diverse Students with Disabilities

Director: Charles R. Greenwood, Ph.D.
U.S. Department of Education

Preparation of Minority Leadership Personnel: Doctoral Program in Research-Validated Interventions

Director: Cheryl Utley, Ph.D.
U.S. Department of Education

Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Schools - Leadership and Access (pre-doctoral)

Director: Jane Wegner, Ph.D.
U.S. Department of Education

Leadership and Outcomes Program in Education and Family Policy for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (pre-doctoral)

Director: Ann Turnbull, Ed.D.
U.S. Department of Education