Robert Hodapp, Ph.D.

Dr. Hodapp is a Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. His current research interests include the developmental approach to intellectual disability, mother-child interactions with children with disabilities, and development in children with fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, and other genetic disorders of intellectual disability. As Director of Research for the Center's UCEDD, Dr. Hodapp oversees the research programs, basic and applied, that are conducted as part of the UCEDD. He develops the UCEDD's research agenda in consultation with the UCEDD Operating Committee and the Community Advisory Council.