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    The Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Center (KIDDRC) supports high quality, high impact basic and applied research within themes that are relevant to the etiology, identification, prevention, and treatment of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The Center is focused on four basic themes:

    • Language, Communication Disorders and Cognition
    • Risk, Intervention, and Prevention
    • Neurobiology of IDD
    • Cellular and Molecular Biology of Early Development

    For more information, please visit the KIDDRC website.

    Visit the Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Website

    kiddrc.ku.edu

    Projects

    Using PCORnet to Expand the DS-CONNECT Cohort Through Healthcare System Recruitment, Incorporating Electronic Health Records, and Assessing Self-Determination
    Multimodal Approach to Word Learning in Children with Autism - Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Project 1
    Motor abnormalities and functional brain mechanisms in the autism spectrum disorder
    Prenatal DHA and Neurofunctional Development (PANDA)
    Rural Disparities in Pediatric Obesity: The iAmHealthy Intervention

    News

    Rat study ties Rett syndrome gene to pain processing
    DHA-enriched formula in infancy linked to positive cognitive outcomes in childhood
    KU intellectual disabilities research center wins $5.40 million grant
    Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
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Life Span Institute Centers

  • KU Life Span Institute
  • Center for Community Health and Development
  • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
  • Child Language Doctoral Program (CLDP)
  • Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC)
  • Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities (KUCDD)
  • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
  • The Center for Research on Learning (CRL)
  • The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (K-CART)
  • The Life Span Institute at Parsons
  • The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Education Center (SWIFT)
  • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú (CASP)

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Centers

  • Beach Center on Disability
  • Center for Community Health and Development
  • The Center for Research on Learning
  • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
  • Child Language Doctoral Program
  • Juniper Gardens Children's Project
  • Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
  • Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities
  • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
  • The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training
  • The Life Span Institute at Parsons
  • The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Center
  • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú

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785-864-4295

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Dole Human Development Center, Rm 1052
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045

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