Overview Richard Schiefelbusch was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at KU who oversaw the establishment of a speech and hearing clinic at KU and helped develop the Intercampus Program in Communicative Disorders. He founded and directed the Bureau of Child Research and its successor the Institute for Life Span Studies, which now bears his name. This collection contains personal correspondence, speeches and papers presented at conferences, records of conferences and meetings, books edited or written...

Overview The Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies (LSI) was created in 1990 from the 67-year-old University of Kansas Bureau of Child Research. Today it is one of the largest and most highly regarded human development and disabilities research centers in the country. The LSI brings together scientists of diverse disciplines including gerontololgy, psychology, psychiatry, speech pathology, sociology, education, biology, pharmacology, physiology and medicine to study human development from its...