<p>A new community lecture series on VKC disabilities research presented in plain, accessible language. Learn more at: https://vkc.vumc.org/events/6628</p>

A new community lecture series on VKC disabilities research presented in plain, accessible language. Learn more at: https://vkc.vumc.org/events/6628

Save the date for virtual Science Day. Learn more at: https://vkc.vumc.org/events/6630

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<p>The VKC is renewed through 2025 as a national <em>Eunice Kennedy Shriver</em> Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.</p>

The VKC is renewed through 2025 as a national Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center.

VKC UCEDD Reading Clinic goes virtual with its one-on-one program that helps struggling readers.

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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered a new genetic disease that causes a severe form of neurogenic orthostatic hypotension, a rapid drop in blood pressure upon standing that can cause fainting.

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VUMC team discovers new genetic disease

Six students graduated from the Next Steps at Vanderbilt program as part of the Class of 2021 this May. Housed in the Department of Special Education at Peabody College of education and human development, Next Steps at Vanderbilt provides students with intellectual disability an inclusive, transformational higher education experience that embodies the values of equality, compassion and excellence in all endeavors.

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Six students graduate from Next Steps at Vanderbilt in Class of 2021

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6/17 - VKC Community Lectures on Research in Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities: "Learning How Children on the Autism Spectrum Process Sensory Information"

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