Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Without access to communication, people are isolated and frustrated and can end up having very different life experiences. If we can establish communication for a variety of individuals using alternative tools and techniques, and in so doing, increase that individual's quality of life, I think it's a pretty substantial impact...
CMT is a slowly progressive disease in contrast to ALS, which affects the same neurons in the peripheral nervous system.
AT(N) biomarker profiles and Alzheimer's disease in People with Down syndrome
Several months after Ella’s first birthday, she received her diagnosis of Rett syndrome. “It was devastating, life changing. It’s rare – we hadn’t heard of it before we started this journey and it’s a very difficult diagnosis to process,” Jennifer says.
Early language skills are one of the best predictors of academic, social, vocational outcomes.
Families and their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face many barriers to getting accessibility to exercise.
Former UCEDD director Bill MacLean with current director Leann DaWalt.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was one of the first sites to be selected to have an IDDRC and UCEDD because of the urging of Harry Waisman, MD, PhD, a prominent researcher physician, for whom the Waisman Center is named.
There are thousands if not millions of steps to get from genotype, your genetic code, to phenotype, your physical attributes.
Here’s how it typically works. A parent brings their child to their pediatrician, concerned about a potential mental health condition — maybe it’s anxiety, or maybe it’s depression.
