Your Child's Brain
Episodes
Raising a Child with a Disability—A New Resource for Families
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raising a child with a disability is a journey marked by love, resilience, and hope,but it also brings complex challenges that can feel overwhelming. ...
Exploring Neuroplasticity: How Early Childhood Shapes Brain Development and Learning
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Early childhood is an important stage of life for brain development. As a child learns new information, engages in social interaction, and goes throug...
Building Brains Through Connection: How Social Interaction Shapes Emotional Intelligence in Children
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For children, social interaction isn’t just play—it’s brain-building. When children connect, share, and empathize, they are also strengthening t...
Helping Parents Build Skills for Effective Parenting
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting is one of the most important jobs—but most parents don’t get formal training. Many rely on what they learned growing up and figure thing...
Back to School – Improving the Education of Children with Neurodevelopmental Challenges
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As students get ready to go back to school soon, Kennedy Krieger President and CEO Dr. Brad Schlaggar and his guest, Dr. Nancy Grasmick, former superi...
Benefits of Inclusion Through Participation in Sports
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s episode of Your Child’s Brain Dr. Brad Schlaggar, President and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute, is joined by Jim Schmutz and Abb...
How Does Exercise Impact a Child’s Developing Brain?
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we know about the health benefits of exercise and other physical activity for children? We know it builds strong muscles and bones, helps keep...
Silent Struggles: The Impact of Untreated Mental Health Disorders on Children
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of an unprecedented mental health crisis in this country that has especially impacted children. According to experts, an estimated...
Autism: A look back and a look ahead
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
April is known internationally as Autism Acceptance Month, providing an opportunity to think about and deepen our understanding of the complexities of...
Long COVID in Children: What Have We Learned in Five Years?
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month marks five years since much of the United States was under a state of emergency due to the infectious disease COVID-19 and the virus that c...
Genetic Counseling and Rare Diseases
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
February is Rare Disease Month---a month-long focus on rare diseases, culminating on rare disease day, February 28th. Currently more than 7,000 rare d...
Neuropsychological Evaluations—What are they and when are they needed?
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how neuropsychologists help children overcome cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges. Dr. Brad Schlaggar and experts from Kennedy Kr...
Unlocking the Stigma of Epilepsy
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurologic disorders seen in children and adults, in fact, 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy during thei...
Down syndrome and the impact of a longer life span
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We humans, typically, have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, we have an extra chromosome or we are missing one. Down syndr...
How Experience and Environment Impact Our Early Brain Development
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does experience and one’s environment influence the early development of our brains? We’ve known for a long time that this question does n...
Muscular Dystrophy
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Your Child’s Brain, Dr. Brad Schlaggar is joined by his Kennedy Krieger colleague, Dr. Doris Leung, to discuss a set of diseases ...
Disability Services in College
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute and Dr. Lisa Carey, the Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation and Le...
The Impact of a Physician Shortage on Children
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States alone, there are nearly 20 million children with developmental, cognitive, behavioral, and/or learning disorders. It is widely re...
Navigating Childhood: Insights into Challenging Behaviors and Family Dynamic
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
May is Children’s Mental Health Awareness month and as part of that recognition, join Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger and h...
Inside the Mind: Anxiety and Autism
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
April is known internationally as Autism Acceptance Month. As part of that recognition, join Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger ...
Sleep Disorders in Children
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this month’s episode Kennedy Krieger President and CEO, Dr. Brad Schlaggar is joined by Dr. Janet Lam, a pediatric neurologist and an expert in s...
What does it mean to have a rare disease?
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are over 7000 identified rare diseases that impact over 300 million people worldwide. And a disproportionate number of those rare diseases affec...
Unlocking the power of early childhood education: Its impact on lifelong development
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve known for some time now that the first years of a child’s life constitute a very important period for the development of that child’s brai...
Reflecting on Progress: 30 Episodes of Insights into Your Child's Brain
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the 30th episode of Your Child’s Brain. In this episode, we reflect back on the topics that we discussed over the past 2 ½ years and ta...
Tourette syndrome
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tourette syndrome and tics—what are these two neurological disorders, how do they differ and how are they treated is the subject of this month’s e...
Cerebral Palsy
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People with disabilities or chronic health conditions, such as cerebral palsy, may be as much as 3-4 times more likely to develop depression and anxie...
Spinal Cord Injury
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the brain communicate with the rest of the body? One critically important way for that communication to happen is via the spinal cord, a real...
The Connection Between Hearing and Speech
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early recognition of hearing loss---whether an individual has complete loss or is hard of hearing---has significant implications for optimizing outcom...
Developmental and Pediatric Neuropsychiatry: What is it and the Implications on the Brain
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Check out the latest episode of Your Child’s Brain. Join Dr. Brad Schlaggar President and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute and three colleagues: Dr....
Sickle Cell Disease
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The focus of this podcast is on an aspect of sickle cell disease that doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves—the neurological and developmen...
The Impact of Technology on Reading and Literacy
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Check out the latest episode of Your Child’s Brain. Join Dr. Brad Schlaggar President and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute and his guests Heidi Dani...
Autism and Mental Health: Understanding Risks and Advocating for your child
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evidence suggests that children and teens with autism are at an increased risk for experiencing a mental health crisis. In this episode of Your Chil...
Cancer treatment on children
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Bradley Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute welcomes Dr. Lisa Jacobson, a pediatric neuropsychologist and Dr. Lisa Carey, an...
KAT6a
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
February is nationally recognized as Rare Disease Month and to highlight this, Â Dr. Bradley Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute...
Pediatric Clinical Research
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Your Child’s Brain, Dr. Bradley Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute, welcomes Dr. Amy Bastian, chief scienc...
Rare Diseases
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month's episode rare diseases are discussed. Including the difficulties in diagnosing these rare disease and the importance of research in dev...
Project ECHO
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month’s episode, Kennedy Krieger discusses Project Echo, a national program designed to address the shortage of pediatric specialists. Gue...
Brain injury
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month's episode of Your Child's Brain, brain injury is discussed. Guests for this month include: Dr. Beth Slomine - Senior Psychologist and ...
Adaptive sports
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month's episode of Your Childs's Brain, adaptive sports and their physical, mental and community benefits are discussed: Â Speakers: Dr. Erin...
Long covid in children
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month's episode of Your Child's Brain, Long covid in children is discussed. Guests include: Dr. Laura Malone - Physician scientist in the Ce...
Talking to your child about trauma
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month's episode of Your Child's Brain, guests discuss talking to your child about traumas. Guests for this month include: Dr. Lindsay Cirincio...
The Transition Planning Process for Individuals with an IEP
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers: Stacey Herman, assistant vice president, Neurodiversity and Community Workforce Development . Hannah Wayne, principal at the Kennedy K...
Unraveling the mysteries of rare childhood diseases
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month on YCB the importance of how research Plays a Role in Rare Diseases is discussed. Guests include: Dr. Erika Augustine, Associate Chie...
Autism, Co-Morbidities and Severe Behaviors
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Autism, Co-Morbidities and Severe Behaviors are discussed. Guests include: Dr. Connie Smith-Hicks, pediatric neurologist at Kennedy Krieger Dr. Daniel...
Autism
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month on the show Autism is discussed. Speakers include: Dr. Paul Lipkin Dr. Mary Leppert Dr. Rebecca LandaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privac...
Feeding disorders
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this month’s episode, we discuss feeding disorders in infants, toddlers, children and teens, how they are diagnosed and treated, and the diff...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this months episode of Your Child's Brain ADHD is discussed with: Dr. Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO at Kennedy Krieger Institute Dr. Stewart Mo...
Cerebral palsy
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode of Your Child's Brain, cerebral palsy is discussed. Guest speakers include: Dr. Alexander Hoon, Director, Phelps Center for Ce...
Infant and Early Child Development
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Your Childs Brain, Dr. Mary Leppert, Dr. Joanna Burton, Dr. Gwendolyn Gerner discuss infant and early child development.See omnystu...
The impact of trauma on children’s brains
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the latest episode of Your Child’s Brain we discuss the impact of trauma on children’s brains.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
Youth Mental Health
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this third episode of Your Child's Brain, a podcast series about the mysteries of the child’s developing brain, we discuss mental health and ...
The Neuroscience Of Learning
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the second episode of Your Child’s Brain, a podcast series about the mysteries of the developing brain, we discuss the neuroscience of educat...
Introducing Your Child’s Brain
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of Your Child’s Brain Dr. Brad Schlaggar and Dr. Ali Fatemi—both pediatric neurologists and neuroscientists—int...