News

Teachers from Currey Ingram Academy and executive director of AIW Dave Caudel, along with others, completed training last week for the upcoming Workforce Readiness and Preparation (WRaP) summer pre-employment workcamp. Read More

Today, April 2nd, is Autism Awareness Day at Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt Hustler published an article written by Claire Barnett, an undergraduate diagnosed with autism, which you can read here. This article challenges us to view neuro-diversity as a difference rather than as merely a disability. Read More

AIW has recently partnered with PAIRIN, a social enterprise company that has some online assessment tools we feel may be useful for our endeavors. You can read more about them on our Partners page or visit their website. Read More

One of our undergraduate volunteers, Alexa Levitt, wrote a blog piece on VU Breakthru Blog about her experience learning about our work and joining us, volunteering her time and energy with us. You can read the full article on this link. Read More

AIW is hosting the 2018 NSF Convergence Workshop on June 14 at the Vanderbilt Wond’ry. This invite-only event will bring together entrepreneurs, business leaders, academia, engineers, and disability specialists to examine current practices and technologies and brainstorm about what works, what’s lacking, and what’s needed for the future. This workshop… Read More

Partnering with Currey Ingram Academy and drawing on the expertise of Specialisterne, we’re developing a high-school pre-employment workshop for teenagers on the spectrum. Tentatively called Workforce Readiness and Preparation (WRAP) workshop for students with autism, this four-week course follows a similar development methodology the Specialisterne have used for assessing, training… Read More

Our partners, the Precisionists, were featured in a news article by Lehigh University. You can read the full article here. Read More

The Vanderbilt Initiative for Autism, Innovation and the Workforce (AIW) has been featured on the Vanderbilt Hustler. To read the full article, visit this link. Read More

Research News @ Vanderbilt released an article highlighting our center, written by David Salisbury, released today. Click this link to read the article. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center hosted a clinical and translational research lecture called “Introducing the Vanderbilt Center for Autism & Innovation.” The lecture can be view online through this link. Read More