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Project Highlights

  • Project ENHANCE

    KU researchers and partners are leading a project to continue building supports to meet students’ academic, behavioral and social-emotional well-being needs and making the resources available to everyone in the school community, including parents teaching at home.

  • Reducing Challenging Behaviors in K-2 Classrooms

    Kathleen Zimmerman, assistant professor of special education and affiliated investigator at KU Center on Developmental Disabilities, received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to help enhance engagement in K-2 classrooms for students with challenging behaviors by testing commonly used behavioral interventions.

Featured News

  • KU Graduate Program Inspires Parent-Child Collaboration to Make Accessible Toys

    KU graduate student Jennifer Whiteford Houk describes teaching as a creative field. “There’s lots of thinking on your feet, lots of moving and changing and adapting to the direction and the needs of children,” she said. “Children keep me creative.” That source of creativity also extends to Whiteford-Houk's son. He recently took inspiration from what his mother learned in her master’s degree program at the KU School of Education and Human Sciences to make toys accessible for children with disabilities.

  • Kansas Scales Credential Program for Students With Disabilities

    he University of Kansas has received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education to grow the university’s transition program for students with intellectual disabilities.

  • 6 Ways Technology Tools Can Help Kansans Live More Independently

    Assistive Technology for Kansans (ATK) helps people across the state access tools for safer, independent living. Based at the KU Life Span Institute, ATK has regional offices across the state to help Kansans wherever they live to try out tools to support independence.

  • KU Expanding Program to Bring Students with Disabilities to College, Including …

    Researchers at the University of Kansas have secured a grant to expand postsecondary education opportunities for Kansans with intellectual disability. The funding will support professional development for Kansas educators, increase outreach to families across the state and facilitate expansion of the Transition to Postsecondary Education program on the KU Lawrence campus.

  • KU Advances Tools and Supports to Improve Postschool Outcomes for Students with…

    For the 3 million students who graduate from high school each year, transitioning to what’s next can be an even bigger struggle, particularly for those with disabilities, who have historically been less likely to graduate from high school and attain positive postschool outcomes.