Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Getting a good job as a teenager can be difficult enough, let alone when the teenage job-seeker has a disability such as autism.
Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as "cognition enhancers" has recently surged among the healthy, as well.
Outgoing Chancellor John D. Wiley has been named the new interim director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), the public half of the new research center that promises to be a model of interdisciplinary science and public-private collaboration.
The Waisman Center’s premier conference center has been renamed in honor of Chancellor John D. Wiley.
Meditation matters. Brain scientists are using the age-old practice to understand stress and pain reduction, attention spans, even compassion.
State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster announced that the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS), the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, three Wisconsin school districts, and one early childhood program in the state are among the first partners in an innovative national effort to improve autism education.
High schools across the country strive to prepare youth for adulthood, but there are additional challenges for youth with disabilities during this transition.
Leonard J. Abbeduto, PhD, was one of seven members of the School of Education who was selected to receive a Distinguished Achievement Award, the highest honor the School bestows upon current faculty and staff. Abbeduto and other award recipients will be honored at a private reception on April 22, 2008. Excerpt from citation honoring Abbeduto’s award …
Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples' mental states, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Len Abbeduto, Waisman Center Associate Director for Behavioral Sciences and Director of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (also at the Waisman Center), was recently named the Charles J. Anderson Professor of Education. The professorship is named after the first dean of the School of Education, who served as dean from 1930 to …
