Conversations about developmental concerns can be time-consuming and anxiety-provoking for families and pediatric primary care providers, early educators, and home visitors. Yet the benefits are clear: when families and their child’s providers have productive conversations about a child’s development, they are better equipped to work as a team to co-create and follow through on a collaborative plan that supports the best outcomes for the child. In this session, Dr. Jayne Singer of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Harvard University will share a tool she has developed to help scaffold this process and help us consider how we might employ its elements to help us advance the interests of children and our partnerships with families.
Facilitated by Jayne Singer
Dr. Singer is a Clinical Psychologist with over 40 years of experience in hospital, school, and community-based settings. At Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), she provides evaluation and treatment for families and children aged birth throughout childhood with medical, developmental, emotional, behavioral, and familial challenges including trauma. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an International Facilitator of the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach and the Newborn Behavioral Observations system. At the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, she spearheaded the Early Care and Education Initiative as an adaptation of the Touchpoints Approach to infuse preventive social-emotional health into early education.