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 Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) will hold its first Parent Stress Intervention Program (PSIP) Conference July 14-17. Instructors will split the 4-day conference into two 2-day sessions, with each session focusing on one of two intervention…
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Every time you make a memory, somewhere in your brain a tiny filament reaches out from one neuron and forms an electrochemical connection to a neighboring neuron. VKC investigator Donna Webb heads a team of biologists…
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Volunteer service is an important collegiate experience for all students—one that is now being incorporated into Next Steps at Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) 2-year postsecondary education program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities….
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The Americans with Disabilities Act celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2015. On April 15, the VKC and the Nashville community hosted the ADA Legacy Bus Tour, “literally and figuratively a moving testament to the work of…
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In April, the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) concluded its 5-year commitment as host of the annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, the premier national gathering of researchers and future researchers…
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