News and Information from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Notables is a monthly e-newsletter to share stories about discoveries and best practices that are opening doors and transforming lives for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
The Michael C. Walther II Discovery Grant and two Nicholas Hobbs Discovery Grants have been awarded for 2016-17, announced Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D., Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) director and Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair. Discovery Grants are an annual…
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For some children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, severe behavior problems threaten their success in school and society. By unraveling the causes of those behaviors and developing treatments tailored for them, teams at the Behavior Analysis…
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Just as each snowflake is unique, so are each student’s learning processes. So when students come to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Learning Assessment Clinic, clinicians work together to develop an individual plan to identify and…
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Early literacy for children using alternative communication and insights on education from neuroscience will be the focus of March and June co-sponsored events of interest to educators, speech-language pathologists, families, and others. The Augmentative & Alternative…
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