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.
On a two-day visit to Tennessee, Julie Hocker, Commissioner of the U.S. Administration on Disability (AoD), met with Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) leadership, faculty, and trainees as well as with Tennessee Developmental Disabilities Network partners. Hocker visited at…
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A trio of siblings are currently serving on the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities’ (VKC UCEDD) Community Advisory Council (CAC), and they are bringing a range of perspectives to the work being done…
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Using a unique computational framework they developed, a team of scientist cyber-sleuths in the Vanderbilt University Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (VGI) has identified 104 high-risk genes for schizophrenia. Their…
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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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