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.
Sharing a love of music is one way in which individuals with Williams syndrome excel, as ACM Lifting Lives Music Campers showed when they performed with County Music artist Hunter Hayes during the recent Special Olympics…
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Vanderbilt neurogeneticist Tyler Reimschisel, M.D., has led the development of a customizable neurodevelopmental disabilities curriculum resource that is now available to the national network of LEND and UCEDD programs. The curriculum utilizes the extensive expertise of…
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Musicians and scientists connected in Music City USA at the 2015 biennial meeting of the Society of Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Conference and the Vanderbilt Music and Mind Kickoff. Music researchers from around the globe…
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University for the first time have demonstrated in a mouse model that aggregation, the “clumping together” of abnormal proteins, can contribute to a severe form of genetic epilepsy. Their findings, reported recently in…
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TRIAD is continuing its free monthly workshop series for parent of young children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Fall series dates and topics are: Addressing Challenging Behavior—Saturday, September 26, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Developing Your…
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This is a monthly email of Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Notables published by the Communications staff of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Between issues of Notables, you can stay up to date on the latest Vanderbilt Kennedy Center news, information, and resources via the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Facebook page.