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Director: Marilyn Augustyn, M.D.
Phone: (617) 414-7418
 Mission and scope
Our Division aims to offer clinical programs and provide professional training with one goal in mind: to optimize the behavioral, developmental and emotional outcomes of children, especially those at-risk due to financial disadvantage.
Our philosophy is holistic: we recognize that often the best way to help a child is to help her family and enrich her community through training and technical assistance. For this reason our clinical programs are broad in scope - some focus on assessing developmental and behavioral problems in children, other on the health care needs of children with special needs or malnutrition, still others on providing much needed therapy to children who have been traumatized by witnessing violence.
Our training is likewise broad-based.on a wide range of topics, including: early brain development, the emotional growth of the child, facilitating early language development, ADHD, malnutrition, etc.).
Please peruse our Web site to see the depth of clinical and teaching programs we offer. And let us know if we can be helpful to you.
Specialty Clinics at BMC:
- Child Protection Team: Provides consultation, training and direct evaluative services in cases of suspected child abuse or neglect. Services include: social work and medical consultation by telephone on suspected cases of child abuse and neglect by phone 24 hours a day 7 days; medical clinic services for abused or neglected children; data collection and review of all reports of suspected abuse/neglect filed by BMC providers; training/education to health providers in the hospital and community. For more information abou the Team contact Patsy Natanagara, LMHC at (617) 414-3663 or Patricia.Natanagara@bmc.org.
- Comprehensive Care Program (CCP): CCP provides primary pediatric care to children with significant developmental disabilities and/or complex medical needs. CCP provides its families with a team approach to their child's care. This team includes physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and a family advocate. Family support, including home visits are a key component to the program. Additionally, during their primary care visit, patients also can see their neurologist, a rehabilitative medicine specialist, a nutritionist, a gastroenterologist, and/or a pediatric orthopedist. This "one stop shopping model" of care is very efficient and promotes communication between all members of the child's team.
Directors: Mary Ellen Stolecki, NP, Jack Maypole, M.D. and Steven Parker, MD.
Appointments: (617) 414-4773.
- Developmental Assessment Clinic (DAC): The Developmental Assessment Clinic meets on Tuesday mornings from 9am to 1pm. This clinic serves children ages birth to 7 years with a wide variety of developmental issues including developmental language delay, attentional and behavioral problems and developmental disabilities. It is primarily a referral assessment clinic with some on-going care for relevant issues.
Clinic Co-Directors are Drs. Steven Parker and Marilyn Augustyn.
For a referral to this clinic: (617) 414-4260.
- Family Support Assessment Clinic: When a famiy faces a dramatic change, perhaps due to an illness, a difficult diagnosis, a death of a family member, an impending separation or divorce or frankly, any difficult adjustment, children are affected in many ways. The clinic is open on Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m..
Director(s): Maria Trozzi, M.Ed. and Marilyn Augustyn, M.D.
For a referral to this clinic: (617) 414-3668
- Grow Clinic: The Grow Clinic for Children is an outpatient subspecialty clinic at Boston Medical Center, started in 1984 to provide comprehensive specialty medical, nutritional and social services and dietary assistance to children from the Greater Boston Area referred with Failure To Thrive symptoms.
Director: Deborah Frank, MD
Appointments and Referrals: (617) 414-5251.
- Pediatric Assessment of Communication Clinic (PAC). The Pediatric Assessment of Communication Clinic at Medical Center
evaluates children of all ages. Children are referred to PAC by their pediatric providers when there are questions or concerns about a child's development, especially in the areas of communication and behavior. Examples of common concerns are:
- A child whose language development and communication skills are very delayed compared to other children his/her age.
- A child with difficult or unusual behaviors at school or at home.
- A child with a question of an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Director: Elizabeth Caronna, M.D.
For a referral to the clinic: (617) 414-4260
- School Achievement Clinic (SAC): The School Achievement Clinic meets on Friday mornings from 9am-1pm and Tuesday afternoons from 1pm-5pm. This clinic serves children and young adults from 7 to 18 years with a wide variety of developmental issues including attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and school failure. The clinic staff is multidisciplinary consisting of developmental and behavioral pediatricians and neuropsychologists. The initial visit is a one hour interview with the parent to assess the learning issue. The second visit is a two hour assessment with the child. The final visit is a one hour appointment with parent and child where feedback is given.
Director: Marilyn Augustyn MD.
For a referral to this clinic: (617) 414-3668.
Local and National Child Development Programs:
- Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a program that makes early literacy a critical and integral part of pediatric primary care. Pediatricians encourage parents to read aloud to their young children and give their patients books to take home at all pediatric check-ups from six months to five years of age.
Massachusetts Medical Director: Marilyn Augustyn, M.D.
National Medical Director: Perri Klass, M.D.
For information: (617) 455-0600
- The Good Grief Program provides training, consultation, and crisis intervention in the area of children’s bereavement. Sibling bereavement, the multiple losses encompassing HIV/AIDS, developmental and physical disabilities, incarceration of a parent, neonatal loss, birth defects, cancer, chronic illness of a family member, and the multiple losses of foster care are but a few of the topics visited by our local and national trainings.
Director: Maria Trozzi, EdM
For appointments and information: (617) 414-4005.
- Child Witness to Violence Project is a counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are hidden victims of violence: children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence. The project began in 1992 and currently counsels over 200 children and their families each year, in addition to implementing both national and state-focused training for health care professionals, police, educators, and many other social service professionals who confront issues of children witnessing violence. Director: Betsy McAlister-Groves, LICSW.
For appointments and information: (617) 414-4244.
- Sharing Books with Babies (SBB) is a training and resource project for early care and education providers designed to promote early literacy development with infants, toddlers and preschool children in early care and education settings. The goal of SBB is to assure that quality care and education is provided to young children in their natural learning environments, through training and support of early care and education providers, supporting the development of early literacy skills in young children, through quality care and education, starts them on the path to language, reading and writing. SBB has an early literacy website at Zero to Three's BrainWonders and a collaboration with the Child Care Action Campaign.
Director: Margot Kaplan-Sanoff, Ed.D. (617) 414-4767.
Assistance for Families at BMC:
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Boston Medical Center
91 E. Concord Street (5th Floor)
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 414-3665 |
