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.
Highlights of 2016 educational advocacy efforts include the presentation of the Expect Employment report to Governor Haslam, lowering the age of primary caregiver eligibility for DIDD waivers from 80 to 75, and expanding TN STEP UP…
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The future of research in intellectual and developmental disabilities was the broad lens of keynote speaker Laurie Cutting, Ph.D., at the 9th Annual VKC Science Day, Sept. 19. Cutting is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of…
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“The harder you work, the more you earn.” This quote underscored the tone and direction for much of keynote speaker Anthony Ianni’s message to attendees at the fourth Annual Think Employment! Summit held Sept. 15 at the…
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered a key mechanism that explains how compounds they’re developing can suppress schizophrenia-like symptoms in mice without side effects. On the basis of this discovery, reported this month in…
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