Teaching Child Development and Autism in South India, by Elizabeth Matthews

When: Sun, Nov 24 2013 5:30pm

Where: UNM SUB

The 21 Club wishes to thank our speaker Dr. Elizabeth Matthews.

“Teaching Child Development and Autism in South India”

There is more interest in early childhood development and autism as in India there are areas with more economic stability, higher literacy rates, better child health and survival. For this reason families can now concern themselves with their child’s success in life, not just their survival. A Fulbright Visiting Lecturer finds that what and how she planned to teach is changed once she is there, and adapts.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Elizabeth Matthews, known as Mopsy to her friends, is a pediatrician who recently returned from India where she was a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Cochin, Kerala. Her curriculum was on “Emerging issues in Early Childhood Development”. Mopsy retired in 2011 from the New Mexico Department of Health where she was the Medical Director of the Family Health Bureau which housed the state Maternal Child Health Programs. Prior to her 8 years at the Department of Health she was the pediatrician at the Early Childhood Evaluation Program at the UNM Center for Development and Disability for 15 years. Before that she was in private practice 2 years, worked at Carrie Tingley Hospital and UNM Pediatric outpatient clinics. Mopsy attended the U. of Connecticut School of Medicine and did her pediatric residency in New York City. She came out to New Mexico in 1983 to work in the Indian Health Service at Crownpoint, NM.

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