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.
The Department of Defense (DOD) is providing $7 million to better understand how much and which components of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) are the most effective for young children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder…
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) investigator Blythe Corbett and participants of the Winter 2019 SENSE Theatre program recently performed the original musical “The Makeover” to appreciative audiences. Their performances were the culmination of practice and hard work…
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants. The…
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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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It’s no secret that disability services become more challenging to navigate by the time an adolescent with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) enters adulthood. Pediatrics associate professor and VKC Investigator Julie Lounds Taylor, Ph.D., is studying the…
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