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Professor's work
with handicapped
gains recognition
By Carol Harrah
A UNL professor has gained national recognition for
her work in coordinating the handicapped services pro
gram at UNL.
As a member of the President's Committee for the
Plight of the Handicapped for several years, Lois Schwab
has promoted community involvement with the handi
capped. Schwab, a professor in the human development and the
family department in the home economics college, teaches
classes on working with the handicapped.
She also coordinates faculty and student research to
provide more tools and services for disabled people.
"I saw that there was a definite need for, and interest
in, training and research work with students for the handi
capped, Schwab said. "Through the work being done
here at UNL, we have been able to generate more state
wide interest in the plight of the handicapped, as well as
more tools and services for them.
One of Schwabs most highly recognized accomplish
ments is her work with UNL students Bill Rush and Mark
Dahmke.
Rush, a journalism major who has cerebral palsy, com
municates with a head stick on a word board and voice
synthesizer that were designed by Dahmke, a computer
science major.
Schwab's work with the two students is Deing made
into a two-hour television movie, to be aired on CBS later
this year.
"I have been pleased with the progress Bill has made,
she said. "He is beginning to write a book about his life,
which will be beneficial to all types of people. You dont
get to read much about what the disabled person really
feels, from their point of view, so the book ought to be
interesting, Schwab said.
Began career at UNL
Schwab began her career at UNL. She taught classes in
such subjects as consumer affairs and home management.
When she retired from teaching to have children, she
worked part time, teaching classes in UNLs adult edu
cation program.
Schwab said she began by teaching classes in home
management. Later she conducted classes dealing with
stroke and heart disease in women, areas that were new in
research and growing in public interest .
From this research, Schwab started the handicapped
services program. She started providing student training
and research work for the handicapped.
Other universities began developing their own programs
after seeing what was being done at UNL, she said.
Schwab now teaches students in her program about under
standing handicapped persons from the pre-school stage
and beybnd.
The handicapped services program has gained a
reputation of quality work for, and with, the handi
capped, Schwab said. There are now seven state agencies
that provide outlets for UNLs research and training for
the handicapped. With their help, UNL now has more
time to develp research, to devote to student training
and to make more tools and services available to the
handicapped, she said.
National conference
In November, Schwab will attend the national confer
ence for the National Women's Committee for the Plight
of the Handicapped. Nancy Reagan serves as the group's
honorary chairwoman.
"From the very beginning, I have promised the need
for sensitivity to change, techniques and the process of
working with people who have disabilities, Schwab said.
She said this is the one aspect of the program that UNL
has developed more fully than other universities.
"You can always teach students what services there are
for the handicapped, and how to use them, but that isnt
enough " she said. "The student must also have a know
ledge of the disabled person's attitude and leam how to
deal with this.
"In order to help a person to grow and develop, you
must know what they are thinking so as to better help
them change in their attitudes and coming to an under
standing of their disability.
Professor receives
Radcliffe study grant
Helen A. Moore, assistant professor of sociology at
UNL, is among nine scholars who have been awarded
grants from the Radcliffe College Research Support Pro
gram. Moore's grant, about $1 ,500, will provide funds enabl
ing her to use data bank facilities at Radcliffe in Cam
bridge, Mass. The data bank is available through the Henry
A. Murray Research Center for the Study of Lives.
Moore's study will involve the segregation of women's
work, looking at theories that jobs are defined different
ly for women than for men and that women have lower
job expectations.
The data bank at Radcliffe will enable her to expand
research already in progress, allowing her to compare data
dealing with women in different occupational sectors with
data on job satisfaction of women working in the home.
She plans to visit Radcliffe in October to do her research.