The Power of Early Childhood Education | Your Child's Brain

We’ve known for some time now that the first years of a child’s life constitute a very important period for the development of that child’s brain. Because the brain is responsible for cognition, language, movement, emotion, self-regulation, and essentially every aspect of human behavior, it stands to reason that optimizing those first few years can have a significant impact on the rest of that child’s life.

In this episode, Kennedy Krieger CEO and president Brad Schlaggar will be joined by colleagues Marcella Franczkowski, assistant VP and executive director of PACT, Sharon Holloway-Gentemann, the director of PACT World of Care, Dr. Jackie Stone, chief clinical officer as well as Sarah Monaghan, a parent of a graduate of PACT. The discussion focuses on how early childhood programs help optimize developmental outcomes, and will also look at some of the challenges faced by these programs and why such programs are so worthy of enhanced societal investment.