Our Child Life team wears many hats. They educate children about illness and disease, support them through tough medical times, help them with pain management and encourage expression through therapeutic activity. Aware of the power art can have on [...]
Coming from a military family, moving was just part of my life as a child. Our family didn’t stay in the same place for more than a year very often. This was obviously very difficult for me. Sometimes it was [...]
By Meg Flynn, Social Media and Content Coordinator From time to time, clinical colleagues (social workers, nurses, child life specialists) ask the public relations and social media teams at Children’s to help coordinate a special experience for a patient. We [...]
By Richard Welling, Prosthetist/Orthotist, and Robin Cavender, Prosthetic Clinical Assistant, Limb Deficiency Team As part of the limb deficiency team at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, we help kids who were born without limbs or have lost limbs due to injury or [...]
For many teenagers and young adults, warmer weather turns their attention to an important set of dates on their calendar: spring break. Talk about a double-edged sword for parents. Cut the kids loose for a week-long trip to the beach [...]
