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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: Mae Monette

Next Steps at Vanderbilt receives Tennessee Believes Grant to fund new major

Author: Mae Monette March 9, 2022

8 students from the Next Steps class 0f 2025 stand on the Vanderbilt campus

The Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD) has announced that Next Steps at Vanderbilt is one of four recipients of the first-ever Tennessee Believes grant. The grant aims to support and increase the number of higher education programs in Tennessee…
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March 2022

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.

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