Danielle Fleckenstein Author

Danielle Fleckenstein, MA, CCLS, is a Certified Child Life Specialist in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She works with siblings of neonatal intensive care patients to help them understand and process their baby siblings' medical situations. She also facilitates therapeutic interventions with children to promote self-expression and development of coping skills. In a previous role, she prepared children and adolescents for medical procedures and treatment by using age-appropriate language and medical play and promoting effective coping strategies to help reduce anxiety associated with hospitalization and crisis situations.

Alan I. Rosenblatt, MD, FAAP, is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician in private practice in Chicago, IL. He is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. He is coeditor of the parent book Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Parent Needs to Know, also published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Rosenblatt served on the Autism Expert Panel of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Autism Subcommittee of the AAP Council on Children with Disabilities.