What happens when a child's pain is hidden in plain sight. Too often we miss the signs before it's too late. That was true for a teenager I once worked with.He hid his pain behind a bright smile until one night his anxiety spiraled into near lethal self harm and a mobile crisis team was rushed to his home. I got the call close to midnight. I could hear sirens in the background, his parents' voices trembling, and we were heartbroken, wondering, "How did it get this far?" You know, I had taken hard calls befo ...

[Music] Hi, I'm Elizabeth Thomas, a speech language pathologist and founder of Phonologics. Mine was a childhood rooted in predictability. As the eldest in a middle-class family of working professionals from a small town in Kerala, I didn't grow up with grand dreams.My parents, both professors, placed a strong emphasis on education. The road map was clear. Study hard, earn a professional degree, land a stable job, and build a respectable life.Growing up, I was never a star student. I didn't collect trophies ...