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Shriver Center Spotlight UCEDD Newsletter

The Shriver Center Spotlight is published biannually by the UMass Medical School/E.K. Shriver University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). 

Each issue of the Shriver Center Spotlight highlights the UCEDD’s research, community initiatives, disability education and training efforts, and related resources, information and news.  We hope the Shriver Center Spotlight will appeal to a wide audience of individuals, family members, professionals, community organizations, state agencies, university centers, and others interested in the developmental disabilities field.

 

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Spring 2009

International Outreach

Featuring:

  • International Program Gets Boost: Cost-Sharing from Brazil
  • Collaborative Research on Lead Poisoning in Children in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador
  • Illuminati Faculty Profile on William J. McIlvane, PhD
  • Special Olympics International: Broadening Access to Healthcare for Athletes Worldwide
  • Asenze and Mpilonhle Projects: Making it Happen in South Africa
  • Perspective: A Voice for the Southeast Asian Community – Sidney Liang, MPA
    Two International Fellowship Students “Lend” Insights from their Native Countries
  • Bringing Behavioral Healthcare to Puerto Rico: Luis Caraballo, PsyD
  • Disability Studies Down Under: Alexandra Bonardi’s Ian Axford Public Policy Fellowship
  • Creating Access Abroad: Sue Wolf-Fordham’s Intrepid Work in Ukraine & Israel
  • Spotlight on International Disability Resources

 

Winter 2009

Current and Emerging Technologies

Featuring:

  • Technology at the Shriver Center
  • In Memoriam: Shriver Center Co-founder Raymond D. Adams, MA, MD
  • CANS Large-Scale Mental Health Training Program
  • Spotlight on Technology Resources
  • Illuminati: Faculty Profile of Richard W. Serna, PhD
  • Shriver Center 2008-2009 LEND Fellows
  • Focus on Shriver Center Faculty
  • Prestigious Sloan-C Award for Outstanding Online Learning Program
  • Team Shriver Raises over $7,800 for 2008 UMMS Walk to Cure Cancer

 

Spring 2008

Premiere Issue!  Health Promotion and Disability

 Featuring:

  • Shriver Center Studies on Childhood Obesity
  • UMMS/Shriver Center Health and Wellness Promotion Initiatives
  • Program at 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai
  • Challenges to a Healthy Lifestyle
  • Spotlight on Health Promotion Resources
  • Illuminati: Faculty Profile on Linda Bandini, PhD, RD
  • Shriver Center 2007-08 LEND Fellows
  • Focus on Shriver Center Faculty
  • New Grant to Study Mercury Exposure in Brazil