The Director of Autism Research at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute tells us about cutting edge therapies currently in development, and gives practical advice for parents of autistic children.
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Helping Transgender Youth Transition
We’ll talk about the challenges transgender kids face – and how they get through them – with Dr. Ximena Lopez, Medical Director for the GENder, Education and Care Interdisciplinary Support (GENECIS) program at Children’s Medical Center; and psychiatrist Dr. Meredith Chapman, who also works with the program.
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The Future of Pediatric Cancer Treatments
Immunotherapy and genetic sequencing are two of the more promising treatments for pediatric cancer currently in development. This hour, we’ll talk about how these treatments might be helping kids in the coming years with Ted Laetsch of UT Southwestern Medical School.
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Choosing To Be Child-Free
Whether or not to have children is a complicated, personal choice. Still, many who decide to forgo baby bottles and cradles in favor of pantsuits and suitcases face judgment from peers. This hour, we’ll talk about with Meghan Daum, the editor of “Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.”
Career, pantsuit, suitcase,
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Parenting Without Marriage
This hour, we’ll talk about the affect that the trend of having kids outside of wedlock is having on children, parents and society with Isabel V. Sawhill, author of Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage.
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Immunization Nation
We’ll talk this hour about how politics and social concerns have directed medical policy with Emory University assistant history professor Elena Conis. Her new book is Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization
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Parenting: A Primer
Many new parents don’t realize just how little they know about raising a child until they have one of their own. We’ll talk this hour about some of the most commonly asked parenting questions with Dr. David Elkind, professor emeritus of child development at Tufts University. He writes about the topic in Parenting on the Go: Birth to Six, A to Z (Da Capo). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/d3bd2e99-de70-40ef-a74a-737a6db20f38/KERA_Think_7-31-14_HR_1.mp3
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For The Children
Hour 1: Children in impoverished countries can share some of the most persevering stories. Caryl M. Stern, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, shares some of stories she heard from her new book “I Believe in ZERO: Learning From the World’s Children.”
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