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.
A new publication, “A Unified DD Network Approach to a Statewide Needs Assessment,” is now available in the Developmental Disabilities Network Journal. The publication describes how Tennessee’s Developmental Disabilities (DD) Network came together to conduct a…
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VKC Member Alexander Conley, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. His research is focused on investigating novel pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in cognitive aging and neurodegeneration. His work…
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center faculty and staff attended and delivered presentations during The Arc Tennessee’s inaugural Bridge to Success Conference, held on Apr. 5. Speakers presented on topics from two tracks, Advocacy and Education, to an audience…
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The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) recently shared two brand-new toolkits and online courses created by the VKC’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) and the Vanderbilt Consortium LEND Training Program. Neurodiversity in School Age Populations This…
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Note: This opinion piece is shared by A. Pablo Juárez, M.Ed., BCBA, LBA, co-director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD). This commentary is not meant to be a…
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Music is everywhere in modern life, even during quarantine times of Covid-19. Yet individuals vary a lot in their music abilities. In my lab we are particularly focused on studying people’s rhythm skills. Some folks pick…
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Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., is a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Investigator and associate professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Her work focuses on the neural basis of sensory processing differences in children and adults with autism. She…
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Give, to help kids like William When William wasn’t developing communication and language at 18 months, and even seemed to be regressing, his parents shared their concerns with his pediatrician, who referred the family to Vanderbilt’s…
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