Grant significantly expands Vanderbilt’s autism training for Tennessee educators

The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) has awarded a five-year, $10 million training grant to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), continuing a 16-year partnership to provide education and training opportunities for school personnel throughout the state.

Results challenge conventional wisdom about where the brain begins processing visual information

A new brain imaging study challenges conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs.

Mobile ‘Makerspace’ provides patients tools to create, inspire

At first glance, the mobile Makerspace at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt looks like an ordinary computer cart with a printer and storage bins.

Brain study sheds light on how children with autism process social play

Electrical stimulation ‘tunes’ visual attention using long-term memory

Picking a needle out of a haystack might seem like the stuff of fairytales, but our brains can be electrically “tuned” to enable us to do a much better job of finding what we’re looking for.

Researchers explore links between grammar, rhythm

A child’s ability to distinguish musical rhythm is related to his or her capacity for understanding grammar, according to a recent study from a researcher at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.