About Dr. T. Berry Brazelton
A noted international expert on child development, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital, Boston. He is also Founder of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, which offers programs and services designed to shift the paradigm of care so that our service delivery systems are appropriately focused on discovering and meeting the needs of families.
Dr. Brazelton was President of the Society for Research in Child Development and the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs. His growing concern about the pressures and stresses that families face has led to appearances before Congressional committees in support of parental and medical leave bills. Dr. Brazelton has worked to improve childcare support for all working parents. In 1989, Congress appointed him to the National Commission on Children, where he advocated for disadvantaged children.
One of Dr. Brazelton’s foremost achievements in pediatrics is his Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), published in 1973. Known as the “Brazelton”, this evaluation tool is used worldwide, clinically and in research, to assess not only the physical and neurological responses of newborns but also their emotional well being and individual differences. Increasingly, the NBAS is being used as an intervention to help parents understand and relate to their new babies, and new research is underway to study how it can be used to enhance early discharge from the newborn hospital.
Among Dr. Brazelton’s 40 books on pediatrics and child development are seven titles co-authored by Dr. Joshua Sparrow in the nationally bestselling "Brazelton Way" series (Sleep, Discipline, Calming Your Fussy Baby, Feeding Your Child, Toilet Training, Understanding Sibling Rivalry, and Mastering Anger and Aggression), Touchpoints Three to Six also co-authored by Dr. Sparrow, and Touchpoints 0-3, which has reached nearly a million familiesDr. Brazelton has made a three-part videocassette on Touchpoints, and his television show, "What Every Baby Knows," ran for twelve years and won two Emmy awards.
The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) at Children’s Hospital Boston was founded in 1993 to mobilize communities around children and families in order to bring relationships back into healthcare and to transform child care into family care. To date, BTC has supported the development of over ninety Touchpoints sites around the country.
www.Touchpoints.org
About Dr. Joshua Sparrow
Dr. Sparrow, child, adolescent, and general psychiatrist, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Director of Special Initiatives at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, supervisor for outpatient psychiatry services at Children's Hospital, Boston
Co-author with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton of eight books, and most recently collaborated with Dr. Brazelton on the revised 15th anniversary edition of the original Touchpoints Zero to Three. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on child and adolescent development.
Dr. Sparrow’s work with the Brazelton Touchpoints Center has included consultation on child development and parenting to the Harlem Children’s Zone and to American Indian Early Head Start Programs.
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