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Telehealth: What is it? And how to make it work for you!
The University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the Oregon Health & Science University is excited to share a recently created series of 4 animated video modules on Telehealth. Read More...
National Survey of People with Disabilities and COVID-19
The UK Human Development Institute and the Center for Dignity in Healthcare for People with Disabilities collaborated to address survey participant results about knowledge of healthcare access and rights and technology access and use. Read More...
Buckeye SCOPE: Supporting Children of the Opioid Epidemic ECHO Series
 The series focused on building statewide provider capacity and confidence in applying evidence-based practices in screening, monitoring, and interdisciplinary support for children and families diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome, or those suspected of being impacted by opioid use, trauma, or related exposure. Read More...
The UNC Department of Neurology's Hunter, Cejas Receive 2020 Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology
 The UNC Department of Neurology is proud to announce that child neurologists Senyene Hunter, MD, PhD, and Diana Cejas, MD, MPH, are this year's recipients of the UNC Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology. Read More..
IHD Awarded Large Federal Grant to Support Students with Intellectual Disabilities - Radically-Inclusive Support and Coaching Program Coming to Northern Arizona
The Institute for Human Development (IHD) at Northern Arizona University was recently awarded a five-year grant from the United States Department of Education, Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) to develop and implement a radically-inclusive support and coaching program for students with intellectual disabilities to attend postsecondary educational institutions throughout Northern Arizona. Read More...
The Center on Disability and Development at Texas A&M University welcomes Dr. Robert Maddalozzo
The Center welcomes Dr. Robert Maddalozzo Robert started his career in K-12 education as a general education teacher, with a focus on history, though he also taught science courses. His experiences led him to explore special education as a career. Read More...
The Wyoming Institute for Disabilities Receive University Funding Award to Further Statewide Telehealth Infrastructure
The Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, on behalf of the College of Health Sciences, has been awarded the 2020 University of Wyoming Foundation's Heywood Fund Award. The funded project will enhance research, teaching, scholarship, and community engagement related to telehealth services delivery in the College of Health Sciences. Read More...
CDD Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Marcia Montague and Dr. Carly Gilson Awarded Two Major Grants from the U.S Department of Education
CDD Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Marcia Montague and Dr. Carly Gilson, have been awarded two major grants from the U.S Department of Education Dr. Linda Castillo (PI) and Dr. Marcia Montague (Co-PI) received a Heart of Texas GEAR UP Partnership grant. Read more...
Kennedy Center Receives Grant to Improve Statewide Transition Practices for Youth and Adults with Disabilities
The Federal Administration for Community Living has awarded a Community-Based Transition Partnership Planning Grant to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (VKC UCEDD). Read More...
INNOVATE with #PacRim2021 Call for Presentations
The Center on Disability Studies, in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education, is accepting presentation proposals to be featured at the 36th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity (PacRim). The conference is being held virtually March 1-2, 2021, and proposals are due on December 20, 2020. Read more...
Access for All at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Since the beginning of the Zoo Access for All program, LEND's Program Director, Dr. Jen Smith, has collaborated with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (CZBG) to train zoo employees and identify priority areas to increase accessibility. Over four hundred CZBG employees have gone through the unique training with Dr. Smith, learning some of the types of developmental disabilities they may encounter at the zoo. Read More...
Iowa's UCEDD Welcomes Back Caitlin Owens
The Iowa UCEDD is excited to welcome Caitlin Owens back to the team as our new operations manager. A social worker by training, Owens has many years of experience working across the spectrum of mental health and disability services, from job coaching to behavioral intervention to systems change work. Read More...
Voting: National and State Perspectives - Podcast Interview with Maureen van Stone, Esq, MS
Maureen van Stone, Esq., MS, director of the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities (MCDD) was recently featured on a new podcast series presented by The Johns Hopkins University Disability Health Research Center. Read More...
UNH Institute on Disability Recieves Grant to Transform Higher Education in NY for Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the US Department of Education-Office of Postsecondary Education to create greater access to post-secondary education for young adults with an intellectual disability (ID). Read More...
IU Research Institute in Disability to Administrate State-wide Disability Resource Database FINDER
In November, IU's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (IIDC) partnered with AWS Foundation of Ft. Wayne, IN, to implement Indiana Disability Resource FINDER as part of its library information and referral services. Read More...
Mailman Center for Child Development Co-Hosts Virtual Innovation & Connection Conference
More than 90 administrators, educators, speech-language pathologists and mental health workers attended the virtual event. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Patricia Snyder, Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida, presented on the implementation of evidenced-based coaching strategies to support practice change in early childhood development. Read More...
Natinal Disability Mentoring Day Event a Success
45 youth and young adults with disabilities in Mississippi participated in the ToTAL (Transition of Teens to Adult Life) National Disability Mentoring Day in celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Read More...
Dr. JoAnne Malloy at UNH Recieves HRSA Bulding Futures Together Grant
Dr. JoAnne Malloy, research associate professor, recently received $2.4M from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for Building Futures Together at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. Read More...
Postsecondary Graduate is Featured Speaker for "Support and Connection: Person-Centered Practices During COVID Virtual Training Series
The Person-Centered Employment Planning Training (PCEP) kicked off their first series of virtual training sessions! PCEP is a two-day training that provides an environment that supports students in gaining the skills and experiences necessary for a successful transition into postsecondary education and/or competitive integrated employment. Read More...
Peer Mentoring Program
The Ace! and Aspirations program received funding support from the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council for the development of a Peer Mentoring Program, which will enhance the college experience for students with ASD as well as students who are neurotypical. Read More...
UAB UCEDD and LEND Programs Announce New Project Director
Sarah O'Kelley, Ph.D. recently assumed leadership of Alabama's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD) and the UAB Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) training programs. Read More...
Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute 2019-2020 Annual Report
MI-DDI is proud to share its accomplishments for 2019-2020. Although our building on Wayne State University's, campus has been closed and staff are working remotely due to COVID-19, this continues to be an exciting time of growth and change for MI-DDI. Read More...
Institute for Human Development Launches Fully-Online Disability Resource Specialist Graduate Certificate Program
Capacity Building, a program within the CDD at Texas A&M University, has changed the way that they operate. In order to meet the needs created by COVID, as well as to be accessible to a larger audience, the Capacity Building Project has worked to create interactive online training sessions for participants across Texas. Read More...
Capacity Building, a program within the CDD at Texas A&M University
Va-LEND continues to add to our skilled team of faculty. Deanna Parker, MPA, has worked in the field of public policy for over 25 years and joins the LEND faculty in the discipline of Public Health. Ms. Parker is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Read More...
Competencies Promise to Reduce Health Care Disparities for Millions of Americans with Disabilities
Consensus was reached on the Core Competencies on Disability for Health Care Education through a partnership with The Ohio State University Nisonger Center and the Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education. The Competencies are designed to improve training across a diverse field of medical providers and improve the care received by people with disabilities throughout the health care system. Read More...
Helping veterans become successful in agriculture Military experience, specialized programs help vets establish new roots
The Texas AgrAbility and Battleground to Breaking Ground (BGBG) programs of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service provides education, training, resources and technical assistance for active-duty and veteran military members and individuals with disabilities interested in agriculture.AgrAbility was established in 2009 and the one-day BGBG workshops launched in 2012. Read More...
Pandemic Makes Summer Internship Program Learning Available to All
 For the first time in its 17-year history, the Summer Internship Program (SIP) hosted by UCEDD in the Institute on Development and Disability at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) had to cancel its planned summer programming. UCEDD staff, however, did not let that stop their engagement with students. They quickly pivoted their efforts to the virtual world. Read More...
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