Nicole’s Nook: GoWorksheet to Enhance Learning

It’s back to school time and I want to introduce a new productivity app that can benefit many students. Some children with fine motor challenges have trouble with conventional pencil and paper worksheets.  These children can use GoWorksheet to do their schoolwork on an iPad.  This app allows them to focus on the content presented […]

YOU’RE INVITED: Club NF Heads to FuNFest!

The Washington University NF Center, in collaboration with the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation, will host our next Club NF event at the 2016 FuNFest event in Vandalia, IL! Join us at this special annual fundraiser, sponsored by NF Center patient, Jordan Walk, and her family, to help raise funds to further NF research at the Washington University NF Center.

Gutmann Laboratory Researcher Receives McDonnell Center Grant

Yuan Pan, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, has been awarded a grant from the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology to continue her research on NF1-associated high-grade gliomas.

Music-Motor Therapy Program Improving the Lives of Toddlers with NF1

The Washington University NF Center and Jazz St. Louis recently wrapped up another successful Beat NF session. This unique music-motor therapy program geared toward toddlers with NF1 utilizes jazz music and motor therapy to help them overcome developmental delays commonly encountered by children with NF1