The Supporting Child Caregivers Podcast

Alexandra Harrison
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Helpful information about child development and parenting issues for child caregivers--parents, teachers, health workers, and other child caregivers across the globe.

  1. 1D AGO

    The SCC Pod - Premature Babies with Dr. Ana Mayen

    Dr. Ana Mayen, a Salvadoran neonatologist, talks about her experience caring for preterm babies in El Salvador. She is a major member of our SCC team at the Casa de Vida, the residence for young pregnant teens in El Salvador. Since pregnant teens are a high risk group for preterm births as well as other complications, her experience and knowledge has been extremely important to us.Dra. Mayen is a Salvadorean pediatric neonatologist currently working at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social to create preventive programs in childhood, through neonatal screening tools, to the follow up and care of affected children.  Dra Ana is the perfect person to begin this podcast series because she is passionate about babies and especially premature babies. She has had years of experience working with newborns. She has studied and lectured on neonatal palliative care. She is my close colleague, and friend, in El Salvador and was the first Salvadoran colleague who really connected with me in the goal of supporting healthy births and early childhood in El Salvador.

    25 min

  2. JAN 6

    The SCC Pod - Celebrating Holidays in Turkey with Dr. Hanife Akal

    Dr. Hanife Akal talks about her family vacations in Turkey—especially summer vacations shared by both sides of her extended family.

    24 min

  3. 12/29/2025

    The SCC Pod - Shazia Parveen - Celebrating the Holidays in Pakistan

    Dr. Shazia Parveen talks about how she celebrates the holiday of Eid in Pakistan and how she helped the children flood survivors celebrate life by planting trees to heal the earth.

    19 min

  4. 12/22/2025

    The SCC Pod - Bob McDonell Holiday Traditions US and El Salvador

    Bob McDonell, the Director of Mi Casa Kids El Salvador talks about the holiday traditions of his childhood in the U.S. and now how Christmas is celebrated in El Salvador by the children at Mi Casa and by his family in San Salvador.

    21 min

  5. 12/15/2025

    The SCC Pod - Carlotta Bettancourt and ASD Group Therapy

    Dr. Carlotta Bettancourt describes an innovative group therapy model for children on the Autism Spectrum paired with volunteer high school mentors.

    38 min

  6. 11/18/2025

    The SCC Pod - Sylvie Goldman, Autism, Movement Disorders, and Girls.

    In our next episode of the series “Autism Today”, Professor Sylvie Goldman, of the Child Neurology and Cognitive Neurosciences Division of the Department of Neurology at Columbia University, talks about her work related to movement disorders and the identification of autism in girls.

    34 min

  7. 11/04/2025

    The SCC Pod - Cynthia Martin: Assessment and Outcome of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Dr. Cynthia Martin discusses her work with developmental differences such as autism. She will focus on the assessment of these children and refer to studies of their long-term outcome. Her work is fascinating and compelling.

    33 min

  8. 10/20/2025

    The SCC Pod - Ask Me Anything

    Alexandra Harrison answers listeners’ questions about grandparents, divorce,  and pressured children.

    15 min
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