Children's Health, Audio

Link to the Health Weight For Preschool Children project and listen to and watch programming from the project, including documentary clips, interviews and PSAs.

On KUBO-FM/Radio Bilingue's weekly news magazine “Feedback”, Cecilia Sandoval interviews Irma Cabral, the Lead Advocate of the Imperial Valley Rape Crisis Center about the services available to women and men who are raped. She outlines how and where to report a rape and most important, how to care for the health of someone who experiences a rape. 7:11

On KUBO-FM/Radio Bilingue's weekly news magazine “Feedback”, Marcia Luna reports on drug use among adolescents. Her interview with Lorenza Cavenia of the Adolescent Clinic, Department of Prevention, Imperial County, outlines the resources available for intervention, recovery and support for youth dealing with tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. 6:18 En Español.

When children with special needs are young, they sometimes require extra help to learn basic skills. There are several preschool programs, private and public, available to parents of special needs children in the Spokane area. But some of those programs are having trouble finding enough money to stay in business. In this “Growing Up Healthy” report, Spokane Public Radio's Doug Nadvornick visits one preschool in Cheney that's hoping this isn't its last year.

What's the best way to teach young children about language? Or how to do arithmetic? Spokane music teacher Shirley Grossman would encourage you to teach them first how to sing. The rest, she says, will follow. (06:42)

Hagai Yeheli interviews Dr. Michelle Yeheli about the health risks associated with smoking and the specific dangers immigrant children face from secondhand smoke. In Hebrew. (11:45)

Radio Commentary by Dr. Kim Thorburn
Parents will do whatever they can to keep their children from getting sick
or hurt. Sometimes they do things that don't make sense, in the name of
protecting their kids. Commentator (and Spokane County Health Officer) Dr. Kim Thorburn urges parents to do more research before they make health
decisions based on emotion. (03:34)

by Doug Nadvornick
When babies are born, their diets are pretty simple, mostly mother's milk
or milk formulas. As they get older and become more able to chew, babies'
diets expand. Nutritionists say it's important for parents to help their
youngsters develop good eating habits. They say children with well-rounded
diets are more likely to eat well, and less likely to overeat, as adults.
(05:11)

School cafeterias, notoriously unpopular, have increased their a la carte snack foods and kids are getting more and more calories from what their parents would call "junk foods" and desserts. This documentary looks at various approaches parents and educators are taking to encourage healthier eating and exercize among school-age children. (29:45)

WBEZ's Viviendo En Mi Mundo (Living In My Own World) introduces listeners to young Latinos who daily live with gang violence, racism, and lack of positive role models. By offering a disturbing portrait of a typical high school gang member struggling to make something more of his life, this youth produced-documentary—a joint project of WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and Radio Arte WRTE—gives voice to the challenges that at-risk Latinos in Chicagoland communities face. (20:31)