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Dale Walker advises parents on power of talking to their children in Lawrence Journal World

Parent cites Wendy Parent for helping teen with intellectual disabilities graduate from high school and work in Winging It

Muriel Saunders, Ph.D.trasmit symbol Listen! Kansas Public Radio: LSI-developed Good Behavior Game lauded as tool for classroom teachers and societal ills. Features co-developer Muriel Saunders

Steve F. Warren, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate StudiesSteven F. Warren study of language environment of children with autism using LENA™ technology signals new phase in language research.

trasmit symbol Listen! Kansas Public Radio feature on adults with autism at National Town Hall, KC site hosted by Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training

Friends of the Life Span Institute announce 2009 Graduate Research Assistant award-winners Emily Zimmerman

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Emily Zimmerman and Xiaoyi (Kimberly) Hu

The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (K-CART) co-sponsored a Kansas City session of national town hall meeting on adults with autism held Nov. 13 in 16 cities across the U.S. The Kansas City Star interviewed parents and other participants at the event.

An article by Glen White Glen Whiteappears in the November 2009 issue of New Mobility, a lifestyle magazine for active wheelchair users.

Emily ZimmermanEmily Zimmerman, ABD, is one of six doctoral students nationally to win the prestigious 2009 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Foundation New Century Research Scholarship which carries a stipend award of $10,000.

Research to investigate possible Mabel Ricegenetic links to language, speech and reading delays, conducted by Mabel Rice, has been reported by a leading newspaper in West Australia.

 

David K. Johnson Decline in visual spatial ability precedes diagnosis of Alzheimer's dementia (David K. Johnson in U.S. News and World Report) and Lawrence Journal World.

 

Michael FoxPublic health expert Michael Fox talks about barriers to end-of-life planning and care on KCUR-FM's Up to Date with Steve Kraske.

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