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= Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies = The Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at Kansas University, commonly referred to as the Life Span Institute, includes 14 research centers and an affiliate in Peru with research projects spanning the subjects of education, neuroscience, behavior, and child development. The central office of the Life Span Institute is in the Dole Human Development Center and provides research, finance, technology and communications support to more than 100 investigators.

Centers within the Life Span Institute

 * Beach Center on Disabilities
 * Center for Community Health and Development
 * Center for Research on Learning
 * Child Language Doctoral Program
 * Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
 * Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies
 * Juniper Gardens Children’s Project
 * Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training
 * Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
 * Center on Developmental Disabilities
 * Life Span Institute at Parsons
 * Merrill Advanced Studies Center
 * Research & Training Center on Independent Living
 * SWIFT Education Center

History
The Life Span Institute came about through the partnership of Director of the Kansas Bureau of Child Research Richard L. Schiefelbusch, for which the institute is named, and child development researcher and university administrator Frances Degen Horowitz. The Institute has had three directors: Stephen R. Schroeder (1990-2001), Steven F. Warren (2000-2008), and John Colombo (2008-present).