Q. and A. With a Child Psychiatrist About Treating Troubled Children
Throughout this afternoon, we’re opening up the Prescriptions blog to our readers, as a forum for talking about issues raised in an article published in The Times today about a young boy who was prescribed several powerful drugs and misdiagnosed while a toddler.
Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason, an assistant professor of pediatrics and child psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine, treated the boy, Kyle Warren, and weaned him from those drugs. She works as a clinical child psychiatrist as co-director of the Early Childhood Supports and Services, state-financed program to help low-income families with infants and children under 6 years old who are at risk of mental health problems.
Read more here: Q. and A. With a Child Psychiatrist About Treating Troubled Children – NYTimes.com.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.