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 future of research in intellectual and developmental disabilities was the broad lens of keynote speaker Laurie Cutting, Ph.D., at the 9th Annual VKC Science Day, Sept. 19. Cutting is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of…
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“The harder you work, the more you earn.” This quote underscored the tone and direction for much of keynote speaker Anthony Ianni’s message to attendees at the fourth Annual Think Employment! Summit held Sept. 15 at the…
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered a key mechanism that explains how compounds they’re developing can suppress schizophrenia-like symptoms in mice without side effects. On the basis of this discovery, reported this month in…
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Pablo Juárez, M.Ed., BCBA, director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) in the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, has been named Educator of the Year by The Arc, the nation’s largest national community-based…
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Empower Tennessee, a VKC Community Partner, is hosting a series of Community Conversations around Middle Tennessee with and for people with disabilities. The conversations are focused on how best to promote independent living in the community….
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