ADD Commissioner Sharon Lewis Visits Vanderbilt Kennedy Center LEND & UCEDD

January 31, 2011

  http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/newsandevents/podcastandvideo/page.aspx?id=2599

Elise McMillan, VKC UCEDD Co-Director; Elizabeth Dykens, VKC Director and UCEDD Co-Director; Sharon Lewis, ADD Commissioner

Making our universities, communities, and states more welcoming for persons with disabilities was the focus of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center visit by Sharon Lewis, Commissioner of the federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities, January 20. A parent of a child with a disability, Lewis describes this as "passion work." Lewis talked at lunch with Next Steps at Vanderbilt students, MIND (LEND) and VKC University Center for Excellence trainees and faculty, and Community Advisory Council members. Photo credits: Susan Urmy

 

Also, watch the video of Shifting Landscapes: Current Challenges and Opportunities in Developmental Disabilities Policy, the lecture on development and developmental disabilities for researchers, clinicians, and trainees, presented by Sharon Lewis at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture held on January 20, 2011.