Our mission is to advance knowledge about human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
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The Waisman Center's mission is to advance knowledge about human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
In pursuit of its mission, the Waisman Center incorporates many types of activities in four major areas: research, training, service, and outreach.
Research:
Scientists at the Waisman Center seek answers to many questions about the causes, consequences, and cures of developmental disabilities and neurodegenerative diseases.
Examples include: How does the nervous system develop? How are brain structure and function connected? How do we inherit diseases? How does vision develop? How do we acquire language? What factors influence learning and school success? How do families fare over the life-span when their child has a developmental disability? How can we translate new gene and stem cell discoveries into treatments?
Training:
Training of undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows occurs throughout the Waisman Center. This training prepares the next generation of researchers, teachers, and health care providers in programs related to people with disabilities or neurodegenerative diseases.
Service:
The Waisman Center provides extensive on-site and community-based programs that promote the health, education, well being, and independent living of people with developmental disabilities and their families. Examples include the Center’s 10 specialty clinics and a preschool where children with and without disabilities learn together, community-based early intervention services for young children, and a behavioral support program.
Outreach:
The Waisman Center shares its resources in many ways—through public lectures and seminars; through consultation to physicians, educators, and other professionals; through an internet web site and resource center specializing in topics related to developmental disabilities; and through articles in professional journals, books, and other publications.
The Waisman Center adheres to the University of Wisconsin-Madison social medial guidelines.
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