When you support the KU Life Span Institute, you help our efforts to realize a future where everyone across the spectrum of intellectual and physical ability can attain the best quality of life. Your gifts fuel the research, service and outreach that empower marginalized and underserved people to fully engage with society and live self-determined lives.
When you support the KU Life Span Institute, you help our efforts to realize a future where everyone across the spectrum of intellectual and physical ability can attain the best quality of life. Your gifts fuel the research, service and outreach that empower marginalized and underserved people to fully engage with society and live self-determined lives.
We invite you to join the Life Span Institute’s mission to discover, develop and deliver approaches to improve the health and development of people in Kansas, throughout the region and beyond. We are nearly 400 scientists, staff and graduate students pursuing a vision of society in which everyone is able to participate fully and lead self-determined lives, irrespective of intellectual or physical ability. For 70 years, we have pursued research that matters — to all of us
Research at the KU Life Span Institute (LSI) began in the 1960s with the goal of better understanding the needs and development of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Over the decades since the Institute was established, its mission has broadened to include a wide range of work across the fields of education, behavioral science and neuroscience. Throughout this evolution, LSI has maintained the core principle of our research in seeking to ensure all individuals’ participation and contribution to society.
Today, the Life Span Institute’s hundreds of researchers in nine research centers and programs develop solutions to complex challenges across the human life span. Along with the Institute’s original focus on intellectual and developmental disabilities, our investigators conduct research that matters. We address modern challenges to human development and directly impact and improve people’s lives. We mentor new scientists who go on to make discoveries at KU and institutions around the world.
We invite you to help us build the future on the foundation we established 70 years ago. Join us in establishing services for individuals and families to connect directly with researchers and future scientists, and importantly, with each other.
Now is the time to make a transformative gift to the Life Span Institute to address the following priorities:
At the present time, it is difficult for families with children, adolescents, or adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD, to obtain timely services in Kansas and the surrounding states. Families in our region currently endure months-long waiting lists for evaluations and care. We are seeking donors to provide vital clinical care, including assessment and treatment services for families, and advance our ability to translate our research into practice. Establishing such a clinic would enhance our ability to meet the goals of both our research and service missions to the nation and region.
The Life Span Institute has always been a home to early career scientists, and we have historically been at the forefront of training the next generation of researchers in health and human development. Additional research funding for junior faculty members is essential to support their work and clinical experiences as they embark into their fields. Gifts to support postdoctoral stipends, pilot research, early career travel and conference attendance will accelerate the career course for these new scientists and support their continued work toward solutions for the life span.
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