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Life Span Institute - Research In Action - Educators, Practitioners and Service Providers


The Life Span Institute's centers disseminate disabilites, aging and human and community development research to practitioners and others in fields as diverse as early childhood and special education, health care, social services, community planning and public safety through training, technical assistance, consultations and leadership in professional, public policy and consumer organizations.

Projects and Programs


  • Center for Promoting Language and Literacy Readiness in Early Childhood
  • Children's School Success
  • Classwide Function-Based Intervention Teams
  • Expanding the Reach of Evidence-Based Interventions for Improving Social-Emotional Outcomes for Infants in Childcare
  • Inclusive Network of Kansas (INKS): Field-Based Technical Assistance and Professional Development
  • The Infancy to Preschool Early Literacy Connection
  • Inclusive Network of Kansas
  • Kansas Institute for Positive Behavior Support
  • Kansas State Deaf-Blind Project
  • Kids Crew: The Independence Community Learning Center
  • Peer Networks Project: Improving Social-Communication, Literacy and Adaptive Behaviors for Young Children with ASD
  • Preventing Violence-Building Healthy Schools
  • Secondary and Tertiary-Level Intervention in School-Wide PBS
  • Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
  • Tertiary Intervention: the K-I Center
  • Wyandotte County, Kansas, Early Reading First

Contact Us
The Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
Dole Human Development Center Rm 1052
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045
phone (785) 864-4295
fax (785) 864-5323
TTY (785) 864-5051
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