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 ...

Patients at Children’s of Alabama stepped out of their hospital rooms Wednesday to play a larger-than-life version of a ...

Certified child life specialists help children and families cope with the hospital experience through play therapy, art therapy, and explaining medical procedures. The program at Akron Children's ...

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

With the Christmas holiday less than a week away, Christus Children’s Hospital staff want all patients to feel at home this holiday season. Hospital stays can be scary and lonely for children, ...

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

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — March is Child Life Month, a time to honor the work of child life specialists who support young patients at hospitals like Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. At Helen DeVos, Child ...

For 25 years, the Child Life internship program at Ascension St. Alexius Women & Children’s Hospital in Hoffman Estates has been paving career paths in a service integral to most pediatric departments ...

McLane Children’s Hospital held its annual Teddy Bear Clinic, where young patients and their siblings guided stuffed animals ...