PEDIATRIC OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

 EDUCATION

• Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY, MS in Occupational Therapy 1979
• State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A. in Sociology, 1975
• Sensory Integration International Certification, 1994 Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests, and 1985 Southern California Sensory Integration Tests

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1995-2013

Delivered all services from preschool through eighth grades to Cambridge Public School students and private school students. Services included occupational therapy evaluations, direct treatment, consultation and workshops to educators and parents, and generation of Individual Education Programs.    

• OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WORK IN OTHER SETTINGS 1979-1995

• • Community Preschool Itinerant Team
    • Cambridge Public Schools

• • Early Intervention: Birth to Three Years Old
    • Anne Sullivan Center, Lowell
  • Sensory Integration Clinic
    • Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston
  • Special Education Collaborative
    • ACCEPT Special Education Collaborative, Framingham
  • Inpatient Pediatrc Psychiatry
    • Gaebler Children’s Center, Waltham
  • Instructor
    • Bay State College Course: Developmental Disabilities, Boston

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Dough, Paint Brushes, and Hands: Mary Benbow’s Brilliance, Massachusetts Occupational Therapy Association, Experiential Workshop

Time Constraints and their Influence on Task Engagement, American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference Chicago, Round Table Discussion

Question: Are our Visual-Fine Motor Functions Deteriorating Over Successive Generations?,World Federation of Occupational Therapists Congress, Montreal

What is missing from our students’ lives that gets them into trouble and keeps them from mentally engaging in the learning process?, Cambridge Public School Staff

Deliberate Playground Design to Develop Physical Competence, presented to the Cambridge Healthy Parks and Playgrounds Task Force

Learning Of The Highest Order: PLAY, Charlestown Children’s Library

The Science of Playgrounds , Cambridge Center For Adult Education

Emergency, Launching Opposable Thumb Reclamation Society, Massachusetts Occupational Therapy Association, Poster

All Wound Up Kids, Or Slugs, National Nanny Training Day Boston

Stuck and Waiting: “Carryable” things that fascinate wherever you are, and the sensory-motor secrets behind it all, National Nanny Training Day Boston

Unpeeling the Layers of Development During an Exploration with Toys, National Nanny Training Day Boston

“Let The People Play", Cambridge Arts Council Experiential Exhibit: designed and ran Water Brushing Installment on towering chalkboard wall