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.
New supplemental funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will enable the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD) to monitor and estimate prevalence of cerebral palsy…
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A five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders will support novel research into the brain function of language development in 4- to- 8-year-old late talkers with language delay to…
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The Volunteer Advocacy Project (VAP) is an annual course designed to educate and equip interested individuals with the tools they need to become special education advocates for children with disabilities in Tennessee public schools. This fall,…
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The U.S. Department of Education has funded a new project to equip transition-aged students with visual impairment (VI) living in rural communities, their families, and the transition professionals who serve them with virtual supports to improve…
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VKC member Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., is assistant professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences. The long-term goal of Dr. Bonino’s research is to improve hearing health care for children who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by…
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