Author Archive: Elizabeth Turner and Gianna Petrelli

VKC works to create advocacy education opportunities for community

Author: Elizabeth Turner and Gianna Petrelli March 5, 2020

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) creates multiple ways in which the greater Vanderbilt and Nashville community can gain skills in advocacy. From a LEND group project geared towards developing an “Advocacy Toolkit” to the VKC’s recent…
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March 2020

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) 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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