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Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) Details

Agency Name: Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD)
Agency Name 2: University of Washington
Address: 1959 NE Pacific
City: Seattle
State: WA
Zip Code: 98195
Phone Number: (206) 543-7701 (206) 598-4317 (clinics) (206) 543-4011 (Haring Center EEU) (206) 685-0455 (public info)
Fax: (206) 598-7815 (clinic fax) (206) 543-3561 (admin fax)
Email: chdd@uw.edu
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/
Description: CHDD is one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive interdisciplinary research and training centers focusing on a wide array of developmental disabilities. More than 600 University of Washington faculty and staff members, as well as numerous doctoral and post-doctoral students, provide clinical services, interdisciplinary clinical and research training, and technical assistance and outreach training to community practitioners and community agencies. CHDD is one of the few centers in the country that encompasses two major programs, one focusing on research and the other on clinical services, training, and community outreach. This structure encourages strong connections between researchers and clinicians, and creates an important bridge between basic research and state-of-the-art clinical programs. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC), supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, studies underlying causes of intellectual and other developmental disabilities, and develops behavioral and biomedical techniques to prevent disabilities or minimize their impact. The University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) is part of a national network supported by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, established in every state to train professionals within an interdisciplinary framework to meet the needs of people with disabilities, provide clinical services and model projects, reach out to the community with technical assistance and training, conduct applied research, and disseminate information widely.