Statewide Success: Managing Threatening Confrontations Training Enhances Disability Support for Thousands

It focuses on teaching proactive and positive strategies for supporting individuals with disabilities through a broad range of behaviors and escalation levels.

Tim Markle Receives 2025 Merle McPherson Family Leadership Award for Tireless Advocacy

Tim Markle, MA/CS, outreach manager of the Waisman Center’s Children’s Resource Center – South (CRC) and director of the Youth Health Transition Initiative (YHTI), recently received the 2025 Merle McPherson Family Leadership Award for exemplary contributions to further family/professional collaboration within state Title V programs and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP).

New Insights into Language Development: The Role of Joint Attention in Kids with Down Syndrome and Autism

Attention is a key component of learning. Think of how hard it is to learn someone’s name if all you can think about is the eyelash on their cheek. The same can be said for language learning.

Pediatric Brain Care Clinic’s multidisciplinary staff addresses acquired brain injuries from a wide range of causes

Every Thursday afternoon, the Pediatric Brain Care Clinic is open in the Waisman Center to see pediatric patients with acquired brain injuries, many recently discharged from time spent in the American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH).