<p>Save the date for 2025 Science Day!</p>

Save the date for 2025 Science Day!

<p>Join us for this special virtual event on September 9th. Register to attend here.</p>

Join us for this special virtual event on September 9th. Register to attend here.

<p>Please answer our VKC website satisfaction survey here.</p>

Please answer our VKC website satisfaction survey here.

<p>The purpose of this toolkit is to present ways for researchers to better include individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their work. Learn more here.</p>

The purpose of this toolkit is to present ways for researchers to better include individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their work. Learn more here.

<p>Tennesseans share their personal stories about behavior supports and practices in Tennessee schools in the latest issue of Kindred Stories of Disability.</p>

Tennesseans share their personal stories about behavior supports and practices in Tennessee schools in the latest issue of Kindred Stories of Disability.

<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

<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>Pathfinder’s new website has easier and improved navigation.</p>

Pathfinder’s new website has easier and improved navigation.

<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

For Families People with Disabilities and Families

People with Disabilities and Families

For Professionals For Community Professionals

For Community Professionals

For Researchers For Researchers and Clinicians

For Researchers and Clinicians

For Trainees For Students and Trainees

For Students and Trainees

FEATURED NEWS AND EVENTS

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 was 97.

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Longtime Vanderbilt supporter Annette Eskind dies

Melissa Duff, PhD, professor and vice chair for Research for Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, has been named chair of the department. She will assume this new role July 1.

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Melissa Duff named chair of Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences

8/18 - TRIAD Families First Webinar - Pre-School Readiness [Virtual]

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