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.
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigator James R. Booth, Ph.D., has been awarded a $3.2 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to better understand how children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) excel at reading. Millions…
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Vanderbilt University neuroscientist and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigator James R. Booth is making available the largest known neuroimaging dataset on math development. His goal in doing so is to support the work of other researchers across…
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A number of Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) members and investigators who are faculty within the Department of Special Education (SPED) at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development have received training grants totaling $6.6 million….
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The Response to Intervention initiative, commonly known in education circles as RTI, is being regarded unfairly in the wake of a negative national evaluation, according to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers Doug and Lynn Fuchs. A simpler…
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Survival rates continue to rise for children living with once-fatal chronic pediatric health conditions such as cancer. But their survival comes at a cost: many experience long-term neurocognitive deficits. In related news, an online stress management…
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A Vanderbilt Kennedy Center special education researcher has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by The Institute of Education Sciences to develop an app for use by parents who have young children with disabilities who also…
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The students of Next Steps at Vanderbilt received the Perry Wallace Courage Award presented by Vanderbilt Athletics to a group or individual on campus exemplifying the courage and fortitude of Perry Wallace, the first black scholarship…
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Transinstitutional neuroimaging research at Vanderbilt University finds that the brain may be structured differently in children with dyslexia, a reading disorder that affects up to 17 percent of the population. The behavioral characteristics of dyslexia are…
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