Harvard-Kent Students Receive School Supplies from MGH Institute

Harvard-Kent Elementary School students, shown with teachers and MGH Institute of Health Professions speech-language pathology students, display the book bags they received after completing the program that focused on ways to avoid the "Summer Slump."

More than 60 students from Harvard-Kent Elementary School received book bags filled with school supplies from MGH Institute of Health Professions last week at the completion of the Charlestown Navy Yard graduate school’s learning program. The bags, filled with items to get them ready for the upcoming school year, also included a copy of the children’s book, “Rescue and Jessica, A Life Changing Friendship,” written by MGH Institute nursing student Jessica Kensky and her husband, Patrick Downes.

Students in the MGH Institute's speech-language pathology program collaborated with Harvard-Kent teachers during the five-week program, which provided academic instruction and community activities at no cost to families. The program, which focused on ways students could avoid the "Summer Slump" in reading and math skills, was led by MGH Institute Associate Professor Dr. Joanna Christodoulou, director of the school’s Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab.