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Kennedy Krieger Institute
Welcome to Our Institute
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| Gary Goldstein, M.D., is President of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, one of the world's leading centers for the diagnosis and treatment of children with disabilities. |
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The Kennedy Krieger Institute, affiliated with Johns Hopkins since 1961and located on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, is an internationally recognized facility dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with pediatric developmental disabilities.
Kennedy Krieger’s clinical programs offer an interdisciplinary approach in treatment tailored to the individual needs of each child.
Services include more than 40 inpatient and outpatient programs, including the new International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, the Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy and Neurodevelopmental Medicine, Feeding Disorders Clinic, Behavior Management Clinic, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, and Neurogenetics Clinic. Our experts also manage hospital inpatient units for neurobehavioral, rehabilitation, and pediatric feeding disorders.
The new International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger will aid patients with paralysis regain feeling and movement through innovative “advanced restoration therapies (RT).” Traditional spinal cord injury rehabilitation programs have focused on helping patients learn ways to compensate for disabilities thought to be irreversible. With advanced restoration therapies, therapists assume that patients may be able to actually recover function. The method relies on the principle that the nervous system requires patterned neural activity to maintain and generate spinal cord cells. The center’s director, John McDonald, M.D., helped the late actor Christopher Reeve recover some sensation, movement and moments of independence from his ventilator.
Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Department of Special Education includes a number of programs that offer service to children with disabilities in a variety of school-based, hospital-based, community and recreational settings. Kennedy Krieger School programs offer special education and related services in a day-school setting to students aged 6 to 21 with a wide range of learning, emotional, physical, neurological and developmental disabilities. Special education services focus on the development of academic, social, emotional and behavioral skills through interdisciplinary comprehensive instruction in an environment that recognizes and capitalizes on the individual strengths of each child.
The more than 100 faculty affiliated with Kennedy Krieger are among some of the world’s leading experts in developmental disabilities and are attuned to the special needs of these children. Our faculty see patients with a wide range of neurological conditions, including autism, attention deficit disorders, behavioral disorders, brain injury, brain tumors, cerebral palsy, feeding disorders, intellectual disabilities, epilepsy, learning disorders, speech disorders and spinal cord injuries.
Kennedy Krieger’s scientists and investigators contribute to the understanding of how these disorders develop and pioneer new interventions and earlier diagnosis. In addition, our staff each year trains hundreds of medical specialists who apply their knowledge in communities around the world.
To make an appointment or to seek a second opinion from a specialist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, please complete our online Inquiry Form. If you prefer to contact us by telephone, in the language of your choice, please consult our directory here.
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