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Four faculty members at two universities in Kansas -- including Judith Carta of the Juniper Gardens Children's Project -- have been named recipients of the state's most prestigious recognition for scholarly excellence: the Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards.

Dale Walker, associate research professor at theJuniper Gardens Children’s Project and professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Kansas Action for Children.

Researchers at the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project are recruiting participants for a study aimed at increasing communication and play skills of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.        

An innovative team at the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project has won a $10,000 prize from the Bridging the Word Gap Challenge for the design of a communication intervention program that uses a mobile device.

Life Span Institute scientist Kathy Bourque has approached the social communication problems of children with autism from several directions. She developed and tested both peer training and teaching strategies to increase social communication between children with autism and their classmates.

Researchers with the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project and K-CART are testing a Spanish version of the Online and Applied System for Intervention Skills (OASIS) that will go beyond translating the program from one language to another.

You are a young, poor mother whose parents were harsh and critical. You had a baby 10 weeks ago who weighed just three pounds. She has been in a neonatal intensive care unit where she has been cared for by medical professionals 24/7. Now she is ready to go home—and you panic.

Home visitors are on the frontlines of battling the effects of poverty on children and their families.