Building Brains Through Connection: How Social Interaction Shapes Emotional Intelligence in Children

Join Brad Schlaggar, president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute and his guests Drs. Maya Opendak and Tomomi Karigo as they discuss the development of our brains’ neural systems for social and emotional behavior, and the factors that can interrupt that development.

Kennedy Krieger Is Meeting Students’ Needs

Where do you turn when all you want is a place that sees your child the way you do—as capable, worthy, and full of promise? For many families, the answer has been Kennedy Krieger’s School Programs. These specialized schools serving publicly funded students with intellectual and developmental disabilities offer a pathway to truly individualized education. Importantly, they also offer hope.

Kennedy Krieger Is Providing Life-Changing Inpatient Specialty Care

No one expects their child to need intensive neurorehabilitation. But when the unimaginable happens—a brain hemorrhage, a spinal cord injury, a life-altering cancer diagnosis—families are thrust into a world they never anticipated. That’s when they find us.

Kennedy Krieger Is Where Hope Happens

If your family or loved ones have needed the exceptional care and attention offered at Kennedy Krieger for patients and students alike, you are quite likely familiar with this renowned organization that has served with distinction in the Baltimore region and beyond since 1937. Whether you have needed us or not, you are likely unfamiliar with the breathtaking scope of our mission carried out by over 3,000 team members across our dozens of departments and programs at multiple sites throughout Maryland.

Kennedy Krieger is Translating Discovery into Healing

At Kennedy Krieger Institute, research is more than a pursuit of knowledge—it is a promise to every child and family who comes through our doors that we will always push forward the boundaries of knowledge. Discovery, through research, becomes hope and healing.

Kennedy Krieger Is Supporting Patients and Families Through Their Medical Journeys

For children facing hospitalization or intensive rehabilitation, the experience can be overwhelming. That’s where Kennedy Krieger’s Child Life and Recreation Therapies team steps in, transforming fear into confidence and isolation into connection.

Introduction

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (SCIM) Training Program newsletter. We are pleased to share insights into our program, including introductions to our faculty members, staff members and trainees, who contribute to our ongoing success.

Primary Faculty Members

Learn more about the faculty members at Kennedy Krieger's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, University of Maryland's Rehabilitation & Orthopedic Institute and Johns Hopkins Nontraumatic Spinal Cord Dysfunction department.

Annual Conferences Focused on Spinal Cord Injury Research and Professional Development

Save the date for upcoming conferences focused on spinal cord injury research and professional development!