Childrens Health

Changing the Way Kids Learn to Read and Write

 
Carina Powers, the CEO of Phonics in Motion that is on a mission to change the way kids learn to read and write joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health and Education Channels. Their comprehensive literacy instructional method engages kids in their learning process by teaching reading and writing skills through a set of unique motions.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Carina Powers discuss the following:
What is the inspiration for Phonics in Motion?
What distinguishes Phonics in Motion from the competition?
Why is it important to both educate and entertain?
What advice do you have for a parent whose child is, say, dyslexic or learning challenged?
What can parents and teachers expect to see by using Phonics in Motion?
Phonics in Motion (PIM) is a wildly-fun and effective, multi-modal method of teaching literacy.
PIM engages kids in their learning process by immersing them in the understanding of sounds with unique motions for each sound/phoneme, and by continually mapping sounds to letters. The program teaches reading and writing. PIM's four multisensory routines offer integrated instruction of every pillar of early literacy, while keeping kids engaged and having fun.
Coordinating the sounds of letters, letter combinations, and words together with visual and tactile motions, the PIM system has developed thousands of young readers and writers at all skill levels.
Phonics in Motion offers solutions for individual teachers, schools and groups, homeschool families, and parents with kids in school.
Website: https://phonicsinmotion.com 
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://facebook.com/phonicsinmotion  Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/phonics-in-motion  Instagram: https://instagram.com/phonicsinmotion 

ADHD. Where Did It Come From and How Can We Treat It?

 
 
Dr. Walt Karniski, MD, a developmental pediatrician, trained at Boston Children’s Hospital joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health & Health News Channels. Over the forty years he has been practicing, Dr. Karniski approaches each child as a unique individual, with distinctive strengths and weaknesses, where the diagnosis does not matter as much as understanding the specific needs of that child. His new book is ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe?
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Walt Karniski discuss the following:
Many people have suggested that ADHD is a fabricated diagnosis, invented by doctors and pharmaceutical companies to sell more drugs or invented by schools that can’t teach or by parents who can’t parent. How do you respond to that
What should be done to confirm the diagnosis of ADHD?
What causes ADHD? Is it too much time on their phones? Not enough sleep? Poor diet?
You imply that medication should be used in almost all cases of ADHD. Shouldn’t counselling or behavioral management strategies be used first? And instead of medication, couldn’t ADHD be treated with changes in diet?
Do children outgrow ADHD? Do they outgrow their need for medication?
With so many different medications available, how does a doctor choose which medication is right for a child?
Dr. Walt Karniski, MD is a developmental pediatrician, trained at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was director of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, for fifteen years. He then opened a private practice and for twenty years, evaluated and treated children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, learning disabilities, and other developmental difficulties. During that time, he developed and operated three private schools for children with ADHD, anxiety, and learning disabilities.
Over the forty years he has been practicing, he has evaluated and treated close to ten thousand children, conducted numerous studies of brain activity in children, and has been director of a child abuse program and a program for enhancing development in children born prematurely.
Dr. Karniski approaches each child as a unique individual, with distinctive strengths and weaknesses, where the diagnosis does not matter as much as understanding the specific needs of that child. His new book is ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe? (Roman & Littlefield, May 15, 2022).
Website: https://adhdmedicationbook.com 

The Benefits of Genetic Counseling during Pregnancy

 
Katie Sagaser, Director of Genetic Counseling at Juno Diagnostics, a women’s health company focused on improving equitable access to prenatal care joins eHealth Radio and the Female Health and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Katie Sagaser discuss the following:
The company you work for, Juno Diagnostics, develops innovative solutions to improve access to health information, especially surrounding pregnancy. Can you tell us a little more about what the company does?
You’re the Director of Genetic Counseling at Juno Diagnostics. Tell us more about your role and what a genetic counselor does?
Why is genetic screening so important for pregnant women or parents trying to conceive?
We hear Juno Diagnostics will be launching the Juno Birch™ Fetal Gender Test soon. What does this test do?
Does Juno Diagnostics have any other products available?
Katie Sagaser, MS, LCGC, is the director of genetic counseling at Juno Diagnostics where she specializes in genetic testing and is devoted to advocating for equitable access to reproductive health services for all women.
Prior to joining JunoDx, she was an assistant professor of Gynecology & Obstetrics in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she worked as a reproductive genetic counselor for 6.5 years.
As a clinician, Katie provided comprehensive counseling to patients with a wide variety of prenatal and preconception genetics indications within the Johns Hopkins Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Center as well as within the Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy. She is also a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC), the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), the International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis (ISPD), and the Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC-PEG).
 
 
Website: https://junodx.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://facebook.com/junodiagnostics Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/katiesagaser  Instagram: https://instagram.com/junodiagnostics 

Virtual Family Behavioral Health: Digital care solutions that help working parents, children and teenagers get the support they need

 
 
Kim Darling, the CEO and Founder of Competitive Health (CHI), a provider of virtual healthcare access technologies and benefit management solutions again joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Kim Darling discuss the following:
For many working parents and caregivers, balancing the demands of a full-time job and family can be overwhelming. How are children and teens being impacted?
What is the core problem with accessing Family Behavioral Health today?
How is Behavioral Health Care responding to the demand for therapy with Virtual Care.
How can employers support their employees with offering virtual behavioral health?
What resources are available to help guide employers and working parents?
Kim Darling, CEO and founder, Competitive Health
Kim is an entrepreneur and inventor who advocates for the practical use of technology. Having more that 30 years of healthcare and technology experience, Kim excels at consultatively finding unique value and solutions, and holds multiple U.S. Patents that advance innovation of healthcare data, payments and engagement.
About Competitive Health, Inc.
Founded in 1996, Competitive Health is the preeminent builder of custom health solutions. Utilizing award-winning digital health programs, 22 telehealth specialties, and healthcare ancillary services, providing unlimited access and unprecedented savings to our clients and their members. Last year – Competitive Health saved employer groups, insurance carriers, third-party administrators, affinity groups, and exchanges over $100 million dollars.
 
 
Website: https://competitivehealth.com 
Social Media Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CompHealthInc  Facebook: https://facebook.com/CompetitiveHealth  Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/competitive-health-inc. 

Yumble, the only kids meal delivery service

 
Joanna Parker, Co-Founder of Yumble, the only kids meal delivery service and a mom of three joins eHealth Radio and the Family, Children’s Health & Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Joanna Parker discuss the following:
When did you found Yumble and how did you get your start?
Tell us a bit about your story and why you founded Yumble and how your goal is to help kids eat healthy and help busy parents.
Does this help establish a healthy relationship with kids at an early age?
How have you revamped the New Yumble to meet the needs of busy parents and kids recently?
This is the only kids meal delivery service for kids 4 to 12—tell us how it works? And how do you reward kids?
Summary: The new and improved Yumble, is the first and only meal delivery service that empowers kids to plan and pick their meals and get rewarded for eating healthy. The new Yumble offers a solution to a daily challenge faced by parents everywhere, especially working parents: the obligation to provide nutritionally balanced meals every day that kids will actually eat and enjoy.
Kids can go to yumblekids.com , or the new YumbleKids App, to plan their own meals, choosing from Yumble’s carefully curated menus designed specifically for kid appeal. Meals are ordered via a parent-approved ‘shopping cart’ and delivered straight to your door, ready to heat up and eat up. Kids can accumulate points for making smart choices, such as cleaning their plates and trying new things. Points are tracked on a virtual dashboard, and an exciting rewards catalog helps children set their goals.
Yumble was born after my billionth conversation with friends, complaining about how difficult and frustrating it was to get healthy meals on the tables for our kids every single day. I decided to see if anyone else felt this pain point, so I posted anonymously on a Facebook mommy group. When I offered to cook a week’s worth of meals for strangers (no name, no pictures, no menu!) I was bombarded with so many “Yes! Please! Where do I sign up??” that I had to turn some people away. After delivering the first week of meals - based on a menu I had created on my iphone while I was in Vermont since I didn’t anticipate getting so many immediate orders from that single post - I was again overwhelmed with how many customers wanted meals again the next week, and the week after, and the week after.
When David saw the immediate interest and traction, he jumped on board. We built a simple website that could process orders, brought on Dan Trieman who had previously built Hello Fresh USA from 0 boxes to 100,000 boxes, and very quickly built Yumble into what it is today.
While the idea was born out of my own pain point and sheer need, the inspiration for Yumble really came out of my passion for helping children develop positive, healthy eating habits from a young age. Meal time for kids can be stressful, filled with drama, and unenjoyable. Helping parents avoid this daily negative experience and turning it into a fun, exciting, wholesome one is my passion. I am committed to helping children all across America develop better habits that will last them a lifetime.
 
 
Website: https://yumblekids.com 
Social Media Links: Instagram: https://instagram.com/yumblekids Facebook: https://facebook.com/yumblekids 

Global Game Changers Shares 6 Emotion Management Tips for Kids

 
 
Jan Helson, the co-founder and board chair of Global Game Changers, a nonprofit organization providing social-emotional learning (SEL) and character and leadership development curricula for pre-K through 5th grade students that empower them to overcome apathy, feel empathy, and foster a sustainable connection to service joins eHealth Radio and the Emotional Health and Mental Health Channels.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Jan Helson discuss the following:
Tell us about the mission of Global Game Changers.
What exactly is Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?
What brought you to founding Global Game Changers?
As the whole world is looking at mental health awareness these days, walk us through your tips for emotional management for kids
How can anyone, parents or teachers, get more tips from Global Game Changers?
Jan Helson is the co-founder and board chair of Global Game Changers, a nonprofit organization providing social-emotional learning (SEL) and character and leadership development curricula for pre-K through 5th grade students that empower them to overcome apathy, feel empathy, and foster a sustainable connection to service.
Jan is a dedicated philanthropist, passionate entrepreneur, and successful businesswoman. Along with her husband Tim, she operated and developed Golden Foods/Golden Brands for 20 years and built the brand into a global leader in the industrial baking industry. The convergence of her daughter Rachel’s philanthropic journey and Jan’s professional journey was the impetus for co-founding Global Game Changers Children’s Education Initiative, Inc. (GGC) in 2013.
Thanks to the generous support of the Novak Family Foundation, GGC was able to develop a custom online platform for educators and expand its student empowerment program nationwide and abroad. The curriculum is now taught to pre-K through 5th grade students in 49 states and 13 countries.
In addition to operating a real estate development company, Jan co-wrote two award-winning children’s books, Philanthropy: A Big Word for Big-Hearted People and The Global Game Changers. Jan serves on the University of Louisville Nystrand Center of Excellence in Education Advisory Board and the National SEL Providers Association Advocacy Committee (https://selproviders.org/leadership/) . She has two grown children, Rachel and Jackson, and lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband, Tim and their Australian Shepherds, Amigo and Peanut.
 
 
Website: https://globalgamechangers.org 
Social Media Links: FACEBOOK - https://facebook.com/TheGlobalGameChangers  INSTAGRAM - https://instagram.com/globalgamechangers  LINKEDIN - https://linkedin.com/company/globalgamechangers  TWITTER - https://twitter.com/GlobalGameChgrs 

How to Camouflage a Virus: The Latest in Gene Therapy with Genine Winslow

 
 
Genine Winslow, the CEO and Co-founder of Chameleon Biosciences, a biotechnology company focused on safer, more effective gene therapies joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel.
Chameleon’s (patent pending) EVADER™ platform is helping to make it possible to treat people who previously could not be treated with gene therapy, especially children with genetic diseases such as severe Hemophilia B.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guests Genine Winslow discuss the following:
Obviously viruses are on everyone’s mind right now. The truth is that while viruses can be deadly such as in the case of COVID-19, gene therapy actually uses viruses as treatment vehicles for genetic diseases. Can you explain what it is about viruses that makes them ideal for treating genetic diseases?
As I understand it, Chameleon’s work focuses on treatments for people who can’t be treated with conventional gene therapies--why is it that some people, especially children, are untreatable?
Going into detail--back to COVID-19--the vaccines so many of us are getting are designed to prime our immune systems to help us detect and fight COVID-19. Chameleon’s work sounds like the opposite goal--to help viruses get past a person’s immune system multiple times. Talk about the science in that--where did the idea come from?
At Chameleon, you’ve developed an innovation called EVADER™. Can you explain (in simplified terms) what EVADER does to get around the issues you just described?
Obviously getting to market for something like EVADER is something that takes a lot of time and testing and funding. Can you tell us where Chameleon is in the process?
You’ve worked for many different groups as a scientist and now you run your own company. To all the managers and leaders out there, what is it that you would say scientists need in the workplace to be able to do their best work?
Genine Winslow is the CEO and co-founder of Chameleon Biosciences, a biotechnology company she founded in 2017 focused on safer, more effective gene therapies. At Chameleon, Genine combines her backgrounds in both immunology and gene therapy to engineer a next generation AAV based vector for systemic repeat dosing for children and adults who today cannot be treated with conventional gene therapies. Prior to Chameleon, Winslow has led gene therapy scientific initiatives at multiple companies including Audentes Therapeutics, BioMarin, BlueBird Bio, and Cell Genesys.
 
 
Website: https://chameleonbiosci.com 
Social Media Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChameleonBiosci Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/chameleon-biosciences-inc 

How New Parents and Babies Can Get a Good Night’s Sleep

 
 
Dr. William Sears, who has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for over 50 years joins eHealth Radio and the Sleep Health and Parenting Channels. The author of dozens of books to help parents including the popular The Baby Book, Dr. Sears helped develop the Arm’s Reach® Co-Sleeper® Bassinet, a crib-like bed that fits safely and snuggly adjacent to the parent’s bed.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. William Sears discuss the following:
You use the term “nighttime parenting,” and I like that term.  You have nighttime-parented eight children and been advising parents in your pediatric practice for over fifty years.  Tell us about your experience with nighttime parenting.
So, is sleeping through the night a myth?
Tell us more about the sleep-brain connection.
So, good infant sleep is a good long-term investment?
Tell us about this research about where babies should sleep.
Is this how the term “co-sleeping” got so popular?
I like the term you mention a lot – “safe infant sleep.”  Are there any bedding products that help support safe sleep for baby and provides a nighttime parenting environment that promotes good sleep for mother and development for baby?
 
 
Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his “little patients” call him, has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for over 50 years. He received his medical training at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the world’s largest children’s hospital, where he was associate ward chief of the newborn intensive care unit before serving as the chief of pediatrics at Toronto Western Hospital, a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto. He has served as a professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and University of California: Irvine.
As a father of 8 children, he coached Little League sports for 20 years, and together with his wife Martha has written more than 40 best-selling books and countless articles on nutrition, parenting, and healthy aging. He serves as a health consultant for magazines, TV, radio and other media, and his AskDrSears website (www.askdrsears.com) is one of the most popular health and parenting sites. Dr. Sears has appeared on over 100 television programs, including 20/20, Good Morning America, Oprah, Today, The View, and Dr. Phil, and was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in May 2012. He is noted for his science-made-simple-and-fun approach to family health.
Websites: https://armsreach.com  | https://askdrsears.com 
Social Media Links:Facebook: https://facebook.com/CoSleeper  Instagram: https://instagram.com/armsreachconcepts 

Dahlia Rizk of Buckle Me Baby Coats: Making Every Ride Safe for Your Child

 
 
Dahlia Rizk, the Founder and inventor of Buckle Me Baby Coats, a line of winter wear for infants and toddlers that keeps them safe in car seats joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health & Health News Channels. 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dahlia Rizk discuss the following:
Parents are pretty diligent about having their child’s car seat properly installed and there are a lot of resources available to ensure you’ve done it right.  But what else is there about car seats that some parents are often unaware of ?
Living in New Hampshire with three children what did you do with this knowledge about heavy coats in car seats?
What was your solution to this dilemma which parents face day after day every time they transport children?
What was the general reaction to your new design?
What one business strategy do you think was most important as you began to market your lifesaving coats? 
Dahlia Rizk is the Founder and inventor of Buckle Me Baby Coats, a line of winter wear for infants and toddlers that keeps them safe in car seats.  She has an undergraduate degree in economics and a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling.  She handles all aspects of the business from product development through customer service and works directly with Child Passenger Safety Techs around the country who have found the product to be key to keeping children safe in the winter.
Before creating Buckle Me Baby Coats, Dahlia was founder and director of Choices Counseling of Londonderry where she specialized in PTSD.  In her clinical practice she recognized the anxiety many new parents experience trying to keep their children safe and feels her new line of jackets for children can help alleviate some of this worry.
 
 
Website: https://bucklemecoats.com
Social Media Links: Instagram: https://instagram.com/bucklemebabycoats  Facebook: https://facebook.com/bucklemebabycoats  Twitter: https://twitter.com/bucklemebaby 

DHD, Autism and the Neurodiverse learner

 
 
Sasha Shtern, the CEO of Goally, a company dedicated to making software for special needs kids joins eHealth Radio and the Autism Information Channel. Sasha Shtern of breaks down the challenges faced by these children and adult learners – and the parents, teachers and clinicians working tirelessly to help them.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guests Sasha Shtern discuss the following:
Why does it appear that there is such a spike in cases of ADHD, autism and other challenges?
What has been traditional treatment methods and why do you feel they fall short?
What does Goally offer the neurodiverse learning community?
Treatment for these children and adult learners appear to be fairly expensive. Does Goally address this?
Has the pandemic helped or hindered the effort to reach and teach these students?
Sasha Shtern is CEO of Goally, a company dedicated to making software for special needs kids. Goally’s tools help parents implement at home the strategies professionals use in clinics and schools.
A successful serial entrepreneur, angel investor, co-organizer of Ethereum Denver, and co-founder of Rocky Mountain Blockchain, Shtern advocates for other serial entrepreneurs to move into social enterprises. In 2015 he co-founded Impact Makers Table, a nonprofit dedicated to channeling data-driven philanthropy. He is passionate about education policy and healthy eating for kids.
 
Website: https://getgoally.com