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Jayne Singer
Clinical Psychologist & Former President of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health: Birth to Six
Dr. Singer is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with a diverse array of children and families in hospital, school, and community-based settings. She has been with the Boston Children’s Hospital since 1988 and currently, she is the Clinical Director of the Child and Parent Program in the Developmental Medicine Center, where she works with families of children aged birth through early childhood with a wide variety of medical, developmental, emotional, behavioral, and familial challenges; providing evaluation, intervention, and preventive consultation services within an overall model of infant-family mental health. At the BCH, Dr. Singer teaches and mentors multi-disciplinary professionals.
She is Past President of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health: Birth to Six. Within her clinic setting, she has been key to launching such divergent services as an early detection of Autism program, as well as the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program. Dr. Singer is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is engaged in continuous national and international lecturing and intensive mentoring as an International Trainer of the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach to development and parent-provider partnerships, and the Newborn Behavioral Observations system; representing the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and the Brazelton Institute.
At BTC, she spearheaded the Early Care and Education Initiative as an adaptation of the Touchpoints Approach for specific application for use by early childhood educators, which has developed into BTC’s Tribal Touchpoints Initiative as well as the Federal Office of Head Start National Center of Parent, Family, and Community Engagement. She has also developed adaptations of the Touchpoints Approach for families living with children with Special Needs.
Speech Topics
Areas of Special Interest and Expertise
- Early childhood education; infant-toddler care and preschool settings
- Special education
- Developmental evaluation, parenting support and behavioral and relational treatment services to families with children displaying severe challenges to functioning, such as autism spectrum disorders
- Infant mental health: integrating expertise in infant development with psychological and developmental evaluation and family interventions, developing techniques in preventive mental health
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