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2013

After 40 years, Waisman Center still at forefront of research on the brain

Posted on February 8, 2013

The telegram from President John F. Kennedy to University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was both eerie and visionary. Eerie because it was delivered Nov. 20, 1963 – just two days before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas – and visionary because it seemed to anticipate the challenges confronting science in its quest to explore the human brain.

Posted in 2013, News, Research

Waisman Center: Celebrating 40 years of advancing knowledge about developmental disabilities

Posted on January 24, 2013

Although its roots are deeper, going back to its earliest iteration as the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Memorial Laboratories in the early 1960s, the Waisman Center this year celebrates 40 years of research, teaching and outreach in the interest of developmental disabilities.

Posted in 2013, News, Research

Explaining Down syndrome to children: Book by Waisman Center parent

Posted on January 15, 2013

When Becky and Dan Carey’s daughter Tessa was born in 2011 with Down syndrome they wanted to share her diagnosis with their seven-year-old son in an age-appropriate way.

Posted in 2013, Down Syndrome, News
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