<p>Contributions from individuals and organizations help fuel the VKC’s mission by allowing it to expand its research, training, clinical services, and more. Learn more.</p>

Contributions from individuals and organizations help fuel the VKC’s mission by allowing it to expand its research, training, clinical services, and more. Learn more.

<p>Professional development series for educators, community stakeholders, and families looking to best serve students with visual impairments</p>

Professional development series for educators, community stakeholders, and families looking to best serve students with visual impairments

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<p>The IDD Toolkit website provides information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Iddtoolkit.org</p>

The IDD Toolkit website provides information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Iddtoolkit.org

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center mission is to facilitate discoveries and best practices to improve the lives of persons with developmental disabilities and their families

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Heckers is currently VUMC’s longest serving clinical department chair. He credits his longevity to the department’s culture and tradition of steady leadership, with each of the three previous chairs serving for periods of similar length.

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Stephan Heckers to step down after two decades as Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences chair

In daily conversations, most people are not aware of the complex brain processes taking place that make their conversations possible. However, understanding these processes could improve how AI communicates with people and how students learn at school.

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Vanderbilt Peabody faculty receive NSF grant to study how conversation shapes memory, with applications for AI and education

FEATURED EVENT

1/16 - Tennessee Visual Impairments Virtual Academy (TN VIVA) Series: TN COVE (Consortium of Vision Educators) Spring Meeting

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