Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA16) is a progressive vision loss disorder caused by point mutations in the KCNJ13 gene, which encodes an inward-rectifying potassium channel, Kir7.1.
We have a number of projects examining the learning processes that underlie language learning. Children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years are currently being recruited. http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/infantlearning/Welcome.html PI: Jenny Saffran, PhD Keywords: Infant and Child Development, Speech and Language Development
More than 10,000 children are born each year with cerebral palsy (CP) making it the most common motor disability in childhood.
The Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Waisman Center is currently recruiting children ages 2 through 5 to participate in research on language development in monolingual and bilingual children. If your child speaks either only Spanish, or both English and Spanish, you may qualify to participate. Some of our studies are …
The clinics and the research laboratories of the Waisman Center intertwine to care for individuals with cerebral palsy. The mission is one: to improve the outcomes for individuals with cerebral palsy.
Early childhood maltreatment can have long lasting effects that follow a person into adulthood.
