For children who are hospitalized, the experience can feel especially scary, filled with unknowns in an unfamiliar place. Thankfully, children’s hospitals have teams dedicated to making the experience ...

Child life specialists at Carle Health Methodist Hospital in Peoria are using education, play and emotional support to help ...

A medical diagnosis or hospital stay can be tough when you’re a child, and it can be hard on family members as well. Fortunately, many hospitals, especially children’s hospitals, have certified child ...

Child life specialists work with kids of all ages, and that includes babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

During Child Life Month in March, FOX 17 went into the waiting room to watch how a Child Life Specialist can help young patients feel more positive before heading into surgery GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — ...

Child life specialists can make a big difference in healthcare for kids, including eliminating the need for some medicines to calm them before procedures. Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital this ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Balian Funderburk is only 6 years old and he’s already undergone four spine surgeries and two brain surgeries. He has spina bifida and hydrocephalus and has been in and out of ...

Hospitals can be overwhelming — for adults and for children. A child life specialist's job is to advocate for patients, families and children. Olivia Bourgeois was born in Cutoff and graduated with an ...

At just 3 1/2 years old, Hay’Lough Inge took all the nurses and physicians in the Emplify clinic room to the cleaners with her operation on Baby Alive on June 24. Hay’Lough calls the doctor on a radio ...