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Child life specialists use developmental interventions and play to help patients and families adjust to and understand the hospital and their medical situation.

As professionals trained to work with children in medical settings, each specialist holds a bachelor's or master's degree in the areas of child life, child development, special education or recreation therapy. Many child life specialists are also professionally certified and affiliated with the national Child Life Council.

Each student working with Education, Inc. receives attendence credit and is kept up to date with his or her classroom curriculum

Massachusetts students are eligible for homebound and hospital tutoring services if they anticipate being absent from school for 14 days or more. The 14 days of abscence can be consecutive or add up to 14 days nonconsecutively

If your child is currently in the hospital, contact the child life specialist on that unit to set up tutoring services.

Kirsten started in 2003 bringing over 5 years of child life experience to Children's Hospital Boston. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development with a concentration in Child Life from Wheelock College. There she continued her studies and received a Master of Science degree in Family Centered Care. Kirsten is a certified and active member through the Child Life Council.

Lynne received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Arts with a concentration in Child Life from Wheelock College in 1998. She has worked in various child development settings, including an early intervention program and therapeutic preschool. Lynne is a certified and active member through the Child Life Council.

Johanna Black has worked as a certified child life specialist at Children's Hospital Boston for the past three years. She graduated from Ohio Weselyan University with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Anthropogy in 1998. Johanna continued her studies, receiving her Master of Science degree in Family Centered Care at Wheelock College in 2004.