Featured Items

Registration Now Open for VKC Science Day 2010

Registration and poster abstract submission are now open online.

Autism Screening Tool Featured on WZTV Fox 17

Fox 17 reported on the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year Olds (STAT™ ) and interviewed a mother whose child has benefitted from early intervention.

Survey of Statewide Needs for Services in Developmental Disabilities

Complete our survey and help the VKC learn what is most important to the disability community and about needs across Tennessee.

Recent News and Media

News Releases

• Registration Now Open for VKC Science Day 2010
• Vanderbilt scientists receive federal funding for two unconventional research projects
• Vanderbilt Kennedy TRIAD offers online training for early autism screening
• Survey of Statewide Needs for Services in Developmental Disabilities
• Vanderbilt Kennedy Center receives the EP Maxwell J. Schleifer Distinguished Service Award
• Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to continue as national Developmental Disabilities Research Center
• Tammy Vice Sings, "Don't Give Up On Me"
• Tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver by H. Carl Haywood, Ph.D.
• Inspiration for Head Start
• The Fulfillment of a Vision

In the News

• WZTV Fox 17 Autism Screening Tool Featured on WZTV Fox 17
  (Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D.)
• The Tennessean Vanderbilt gets $66.5M in stimulus research grants
  (Jonathan L. Haines, Ph.D.)
• Concord Monitor Learning Potential: Program Shows Ways to Teach Children with Rare Syndrome
• Associated Press Cursive may be a fading skill, but so what?
  (Stephen Graham, Ed.D.)
• Vanderbilt Health Radio Is There a Link Between Vaccines and Autism?
  (BethAnn McLaughlin, Ph.D.)
• The Tennessean STDs on rise for TN women
• USA Today Pregnant women bare arms for H1N1 vaccine
  (Kathryn M Edwards, M.D.)
• VUMC Reporter Doris Duke Foundation lauds Ess’ research
  (Kevin Ess, Ph.D., M.D.)
• VUMC Reporter Elisabeth Dykens Receives Two-Year Challenge Grant from the National Institutes of Health
  (Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D.)
• VUMC Reporter High-fat diet’s impact on brain explored
  (Aurelio Galli, Ph.D.)

Video, Audio and Images

• Psychosocial and Biological Markers of Stress in the Lives of Mothers of Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Ethics of Presymptomatic Genetic Testing in the Pediatric Population
• Current Art Exhibit - Creative Expressions XV
• Educational Neuroscience: Insights into Attention, Reading, and Mathematics
• Looking Forward II
• Image Gallery - Awards given for new leadership and staff service
• Statistics and Methodology Core Training Seminar - An Overview of Nonparametric Statistics
• Pilot Testing of an Intervention for Attachment-Impaired Preschool Children
• Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Directors Image Gallery
• Best Buddies Alternative Spring Break Videos