The Supporting Child Caregivers Podcast

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Claire Vallotton, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University. She studies communication between preverbal children and their parents and educators, and develops curricula and workshops to help caregivers understand and respond to young children’s communication cues so that they can respect babies as little individuals with leg...

Carol Krusemark is a speech/language pathologist with over 30 years of clinical experience.  While she currently specializes in serving professional voice users, she has also worked in hospitals, schools, and on early intervention teams.  Her current areas of interest include teaching, supervision, and incorporation of trauma-informed care principles into clinical care.

We are delighted to welcome Sara MacIntyre to begin our series on Kids and Language. Sara is a speech and language therapist who specializes in stuttering based in Philadelphia. She owns YouSpeak Stuttering Therapy and hosts a webinar series and a podcast. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Alexandra Harrison talks about “Co-Regulation”.

Dr. Isabella Caldwell talks about the very common problem of sleep disorders in autistic children on the autistic spectrum.

Dr. Catherine Lord talks about the beginning of her research that led to the powerful assessment tool, the ADOS, and then the longitudinal study that has contributed so much to our understanding of autistic individuals and their families. She also talks about her current work developing tools for families to use with their children.

Dr. Gauri Divan, Director of the Child Development Group in the non profit Sangath, focuses on creating innovations that use a task-sharing approach with non-specialist workers.

Dr. Charlotte Tan talks to us about her clinical work in the evaluation and treatment of neurodiverse children in her practice in the Philippines.

Dr. Robert Hendren talks to us about the “terroir” in neurodevelopment disorders and his translational interventional outcomes research.

Dr. Susan Sherkow will speak about her knowledge and her experience with autism spectrum disorders as an expert psychoanalytic clinician and as the founder and Director of the Sherkow Center for Child Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder in New York City.

Dr. Kevin Coughlin, Medical Director of the new Neurodevelopmental Disorders Unit of Cambridge Health Alliance talks about his experiences setting up this unit to fill a crucial gap in treatment for ASD youth—and talks about the roots of his interest in ASD

Lori Hogenkamp, the pioneering mind behind the Evolutionary-Stress Framework draws from her personal journey and extensive research in psychoneuroimmunology to offer her insights into the challenges faced by neurodiverse individuals and ways to help them meet those challenges.

Dr. Rogerio Lerner, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sao Paolo, talks about how he used psychoanalytic knowledge to inform a cost-effective instrument for low resource communities in Brazil and was even able to influence public policy.

Recognized author and psychoanalyst from London speaks about her remarkable work with children on the autistic spectrum. 

Dr. Levine, a developmental child psychologist, discusses several helpful interventions for children on the autism spectrum suffering anxiety and fears.

Ruby Salazar, child and family developmental therapist, talks about her long experience working with children on the autism spectrum and their families and effectively advocating for them.  

Ilene Lefcourt, author of several parent guidance books, member at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training, and founder of the Sackler Lefcourt Center for Child Development in 1982, has provided developmental consultation to parents for over 35 years. She speaks about how she reached parents being haunted by “ghosts from the nursery” and helped them correct their misapprehensions of...

Robin Holloway, is a psychologist working in Toronto. He has written about and worked with children on the autistic spectrum for decades and he approaches our subject with knowledge and a special sensitivity. He talks to us about his work and tell us some stories about the children who helped grow that knowledge. 

Well known pediatrician, Dr. Michael Yogman, talks about his long-term interest in involving fathers in their children’s lives-- how he supported fathers in his pediatric practice, and how he continues to do so in international organizations.

Dr. Connie Keefer adds another episode to our series on the NBO. Dr. Keefer, one of the creators of the NBO, talks about experiences she had using the NBO with babies born with problems, and also tells a story about her experience with a tribe of American Indians. 

Alexandra Harrison talks about helping a 3-year-old stop throwing and responds to Dr. Vivek Murthy’s remarks about an “epidemic of loneliness” with thoughts about connectedness. 

Alexandra Harrison responds to a question about a child who is a picky eater. 

Dr. Muhammad Zeshan, a child psychiatrist who grew up in Pakistan and now practices in the US, gives parenting advice that benefits from both perspectives.

Dr. Abishek Bala, who grew up in a warm and connected extended Indian family, talks about that experience and the difference between his childhood and the experience of his young daughter growing up in the U.S.  

Dr. Henry Marquez talks to us about fathers in El Salvador—the positives and the negatives-- and his experience bringing up a little daughter in the U.S. after having grown up in El Salvador.