Vanderbilt Consortium LEND Director Evon Lee welcomes the 2019 cohort of trainees (UCEDD and LEND) to the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.

<p>SENSE Theatre actors with and without autism rehearse before their performance of an original play titled “The Year of the Ladybug,” written by Blythe Corbett.</p>

SENSE Theatre actors with and without autism rehearse before their performance of an original play titled “The Year of the Ladybug,” written by Blythe Corbett.

Language intervention studies aim to promote development in children with various developmental disabilities

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<p>ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp songwriting session with Ross Copperman, Lady Antebellum, and Joy Williams. <em>Getty Images/Terry Wyatt/Courtesy of ACM Lifting Lives</em></p>

ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp songwriting session with Ross Copperman, Lady Antebellum, and Joy Williams. Getty Images/Terry Wyatt/Courtesy of ACM Lifting Lives

Jeff Neul, Temple Grandin, and Keivan Stassun at The Frist Center for Autism and Innovation.

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VKC UCEDD Reading Clinic, a one-on-one program that helps struggling readers

Vanderbilt Consortium LEND Leadership Training meeting

An individual neuron in a fruit fly model used to study fragile X syndrome, the most common heritable cause of autism (Courtesy Broadie Laboratory)

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