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.

Author Archive: Heidi Hall

Artificial intelligence thinks like people with autism, used to develop educational tools

Author: Heidi Hall January 2, 2018

Vanderbilt computer scientist Maithilee Kunda is using artificial intelligence to build a model to better understand cognitive processes in autism spectrum disorder. There’s a computer on the third floor of Vanderbilt’s Featheringill Hall that scans geometric…
Read more

January 2018

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center works with and for people with disabilities and their family members, service providers and advocates, researchers and policy makers. It is among only a few centers nationwide to include a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, a Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Training Program, and a Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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.