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Online Resources Library >> Education >> UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities

UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities

The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill                    
Campus Box # 7255                    
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3366

http://cdl.unch.unc.edu/

The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities includes:

UCEDD - University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is one of 67 University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) in the US serving as a resource for those involved in education, research and service working to meet the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. As a UCCED, the mission of the Carolina Institute is to work in partnership with people with disabilities, their families, advocates, professionals, and organizations to develop and provide interdisciplinary training, exemplary services, technical assistance, and dissemination of information, all aimed at increasing the independence, productivity, and integration into the community of persons with developmental disabilities. The Carolina Institute has been designated a UCEDD by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities and is one of a national network of University Centers for Excellence coordinated by the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD).

LEND - Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

The Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND)program at the CIDD is dedicated to providing interdisciplinary leadership training at undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. The training program welcomes students from a variety of disciplines, including Audiology, Education, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Public Health, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, and Speech and Language Pathology. The goal of the training is to prepare trainees from diverse professional disciplines to assume leadership roles in their respective fields by insuring high levels of interdisciplinary clinical competence. The LEND Program is federally funded through HRSA's Maternal Child Health Bureau.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC)

As one of 15 IDDRCs funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) The mission of the UNC Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) is to support and promote multidisciplinary research and research training on the pathogenesis and treatment/prevention of neurodevelopmental disorders. Major advances towards accomplishing this mission come from an iterative process; whereby behavioral observations will critically inform basic biological studies and the results of these biological studies will in turn lead to more focused and refined behavioral studies characterizing specific genotype-phenotype relationships.

Major research themes in the IDDRC include:

• Gene-brain-behavior relationships in neurogenetic syndromes
• Basic Neuroscience
• Behavioral development in normal and at risk populations
• Interventions — including Psychopharmacology, Early Educ/ Behavioral Intervention & Studies of Service Delivery & Cultural Factors in MRDD.