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.
TRIAD will continue its free monthly workshop series for parents of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in Summer 2016. Each 3-hour Saturday morning workshop focuses on providing parents and caregivers with strategies to use…
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From art to faith and flourishing—even golf—it’s scheduled. Please join us to view exceptional art at an art reception, to learn how faith communities can become more inclusive, or to help raise funds for an inclusive…
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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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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers Erik Carter and Julie Lounds Taylor are sharing their expertise at the federal level to advance public policy for persons with intellectual disabilities and research priorities for persons on the autism spectrum….
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An online training series about health care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities is available at no cost for families, conservators, direct support professionals, and other caregivers. Although the training is entitled “Appropriate Use of…
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TRIAD is training early childhood educators in rural East Tennessee through a model classroom in Cocke County, a 3-day workshop held in October, and follow-up coaching and mentoring during the 2015-16 school-year. Services for preschool children…
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The quality, impact, and reach of Next Steps at Vanderbilt will be expanded thanks to a 5-year, $1.93 million grant to Peabody College awarded by the Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. Vanderbilt was…
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With a view to the future as well as to the past, two videos can be viewed online and shared through social media—Creating Hope, a documentary, and a short video Opening Doors, Transforming Lives. Documentary Creating…
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A rich history and a promising future were at once center stage on Sept. 29 at the 8th Annual VKC Science Day, which this year marked the Center’s 50th anniversary as one of our nation’s original…
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn, who represents Tennessee’s 7th District, visited the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) on Oct. 2, as part of the Center’s celebration of its 50th anniversary as one of the nation’s original Intellectual and Developmental…
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