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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: The future of pediatric development and disability
Description: Physician and psychologist Heidi Feldman is a pioneer in the field of developmental behavioral pediatrics who says that the worldās understanding of childhood disability is changing and so too are the ways we approach it. Where once institutionalization was common, today we find integrative, family-centered approaches, charting a more humane, hopeful path forward. For example, for children born prematurely with increased likelihood of disability, increasing skin-to-skin contact ā what is calledĀ ākangaroo careā ā can literally reshape that childās brain development, she tells host Russ Altman on this episode of Stanford Engineeringās The Future of Everything podcast.Have a questi...