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 All-Access Inclusion Network (AAIN) was invited to join a new national network of access consortiums to collaborate and share expertise in accessibility and inclusivity in cultural arts programs. The Cultural Access Knowledge Network is in…
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Four best practices emerging from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD) were accepted into the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Innovations Hub Database. The Hub…
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) member Anna Pfalzer, Ph.D., is research assistant professor of Neurology. Her research focuses on understanding the earliest molecular and cognitive changes in Huntington disease (HD). In the interview below, Pfalzer shares what…
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Researchers from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD) and Meharry Medical College (MMC) are collaborating to better understand the diagnostic experiences of Black or African-American families with children…
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As youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) grow older and transition to adulthood, they face unique health care needs. At the same time, they also experience health care disparities. More research is needed to better understand…
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Three new research projects have been funded through the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s (VKC) IDD-Reads (Intellectual and Developmental Disability REsearch And Data Science) Awards. IDD-Reads awards are a mechanism of the VKC’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research…
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The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (VKC UCEDD) has recently produced three brief videos to build COVID-19 vaccine confidence in the disability community. These videos feature an adult with an intellectual disability and…
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The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) was awarded two grant contracts by Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) totaling $17 million. The grant contracts enable TRIAD to continue its 22-year…
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Two Nicholas Hobbs Discovery Grants and two Director’s Strategic Priorities Grants have been awarded to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) researchers for 2021-22. The projects address facial recognition in autism, sleep in Down syndrome, identifying a biomarker…
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During a 2020 Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Community Advisory Council (CAC) meeting, VKC director Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D., asked the group to help come up with a plan to increase the diversity of the VKC in…
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