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.
What if we could create a virtual learning community where clinicians and educators could share best practices for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities? Well, it’s been happening here! Members of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center have…
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Annette Schaffer Eskind, a civic leader and philanthropist who, with her late husband, Irwin Eskind, MD, made transformational contributions to Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and throughout the city of Nashville, died July 13. She…
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A new study conducted by Vanderbilt Kennedy Center faculty and through the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine has found important differences in the brains of adults with Down syndrome that could help identify mechanisms of memory,…
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) member Marcia Barnes, Ph.D., is Dunn Family Chair in Psychoeducational Assessment and a professor of Special Education. Her research focuses on the cognitive processes associated with difficulties in reading comprehension and mathematics…
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This is a monthly email of Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Notables published by the Communications staff of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Between issues of Notables, you can stay up to date on the latest Vanderbilt Kennedy Center news, information, and resources via the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Facebook page.