The Vanderbilt Kennedy Family Outreach Center, at 1810 Edgehill, provides clinical and family support services. It exemplifies the Center's committment to translating cutting edge research into new assessments and treatments.
To improve the quality of life of persons with disorders of thinking, learning, perception, communication, mood and emotion caused by disruption of typical development.
We are dedicated to improving the lives of children and adults with disabilities by embracing core values that include:
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is a university-wide research, training, diagnosis, and treatment institute. It is a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development designated Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, and a member of the national network of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDDs). The Center is one of two UCEDDs in Tennessee, the other being the Boling Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center at Memphis.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; other institutes within the National Institutes of Health; U.S. Department of Education; National Science Foundation; Dan Marino Foundation; Tennessee Department of Education; and other sources.
The Center's interdisciplinary research program is organized into five broad research programs:
Autism (TRIAD) - Wendy Stone, Ph.D., Director
Communication and Learning, Stephen Camarata, Ph.D., Director
Developmental Neurobiology and Plasticity, Kendal Broadie, Ph.D., Director
Emotion and Mood, Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D., Director
Families, Ann Kaiser, Ph.D., Director
Research Programs provides details.
88 Kennedy Center Investigators conduct 127 research projects. These investigators and 102 members represent 23 disciplines from five Vanderbilt University schools and colleges:
School of Medicine-Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Hearing and Speech Sciences, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Peabody College-Human and Organizational Development, Psychology and Human Development, Special Education, Teaching and Learning
College of Arts and Science-Biological Sciences, Economics, Psychology
School of Nursing
Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
Administrative Services
Neuroscience Services
Statistics and Methodology Services
Clinical Research and Assessment Services
Faculty Services provides details.
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