Scientific Themes & Projects
The Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Center (KIDDRC) is one of the longest-standing centers in the US devoted to research on intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The comprehensive center features translational molecular-to-behavioral research and biobehavioral interventions that directly benefit individuals with IDD.
Areas of research
The KIDDRC seeks to support rigorous and high impact basic and applied research falling within four themes relevant to the etiology, identification, prevention and treatment of IDD.
Theme 1: Language, Communication Disorders and Cognition in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Theme 2: Risk, Intervention, and Prevention in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Theme 3: Neuroscience/Neurobiology of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Theme 4: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Early Development