Ron Balamuth, Ph.D.
Psychology

393 West End Avenue Suite 2A
New York, NY 10024

Phone: 212-877-1118
E-Mail: rb248@columbia.edu

• Title:  Faculty, DIR Institute. Faculty and Supervisor, William Alanson White Institute and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Programs in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Supervisor, Infants - Parent Study Center, JBFCS. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology, Teachers College Columbia University. Graduate, New York University Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
• Current Activities: DIR consultations and training with children families and professionals both nationally and internationally. Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Evaluation, treatment and consultations with children teens adults and families. Past presentations in DIR institutes included: The challenges of long-term DIR work, Engaging and coaching families in DIR work, the DIR Therapist’s Use of Self in facilitating reflective practice with children and families, and DIR and Attachment Theory: Similarities and Differences.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2000

Lois M. Black, Ph.D.
Psychology

Center for Spoken Language Understanding (main contact)
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
20000 N.W. Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon 97006

Phone: Oregon- 503-748-7033
E-Mail: lmblack@cslu.ogi.edu
Brooklyn Center for Psychological & Neuropsychological Services, Brooklyn, NY
Phone: 718-941-2437

• Title:  Clinical Psychologist, Child Neuropsychologist, Associate Scientist
• Current Activities: Associate Scientist, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon.  Research on applications of speech technologies for diagnosis and remediation of communication impairments in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and developmental language disorders. Includes following awarded research grants:  Investigator, Expressive and Receptive Prosody in Autism, National Institutes of Health, January, 2005 - December, 2010; Investigator, Novel Computerized Behavioral Assessment Methods for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, OHSU Foundation, February, 2005 – January, 2006; Research Associate, Prosody Generation for Child Oriented Speech Synthesis, National Science Foundation, August 2002 - July 2007; Investigator, Use of Enhanced Prosody to Improve the Comprehension and Retention of Verbal Information in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Oregon Medical Research Foundation, Oregon Health & Science University, June1 2003 – May 31, 2004; Clinical Psychologist/Child Neuropsychologist,  Psychological and Neuropsychological Services, Brooklyn, New York and Lake Oswego, Oregon.  Integrated neuropsychological-psychodynamic evaluations of children; neuropsychologically informed psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and families.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2002
  

Sherri Cawn, M.A.,C.C.C.-S.L.P.
Speech-Language Pathology

650 Academy Drive
Northbrook,Ill,60062

Phone: 847-480-8890
E-Mail: sherrislp@cawn-krantz.com

• Title:  Clinical Director, Cawn-Krantz and Assoc.
• Current Activities:  Clinical Director and owner of Cawn-Krantz and Assoc, a developmental therapy clinic that specializes in the assessment and treatment with children who evidence developmental challenges in the areas of communication, sensory processing and social/emotional development. In addition the clinic offers developmental therapy in home and in clinic), social language groups, parent coaching and educational advocacy. Provide beginning DIR training around the US and overseas with Beth Osten, OT.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2001

Milagros J. Cordero, Ed.D., O.T.R./L, B.C.P.
Occupational Therapy
Special Education

Phone: 770-393-9901
E-Mail: mili@ittsforchildren.com

• Title:  Executive Director, ITT’S for Children and Atlanta Tomatis
• Current Activities: Clinical: Evaluation, program development, consultation, parent training and direct intervention; Research: Reviewer of Thesis and Dissertations ; Academic: Clinical Instructor in Pediatric Occupational Therapy for Boston Univ., Boston, MA; Brenau University, Gainesville, GA; Shenandoah University, VA; San Augustin University, FLA; Louisiana State University, LA; Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Other: Vice-Chair State Interagency Council for the 0-3 Program, Atlanta, GA; Chairperson Children’s Committee – The Frazer Center, Atlanta, GA; Clinical Advisory Committee of the CDL Association.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2001

Gerard Costa, Ph.D.
Developmental Psychology
Licensed Psychologist

YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health            
60 Evergreen Place - 10th Floor
East Orange, New Jersey 07018

Phone: 973-395-5500, ext. 301
E-Mail: gcosta@ycs.org

• Title:  Director, YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health
  Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School
• Current Activities: Founding director of training and consultation, clinical service and research institute concerned with the optimal development of infants and young children within the context of their earliest relationships.  Institute offers APPIC doctoral internships in psychology, doctoral externships and in partnership with the APA Doctoral Psychology Program (APA approved) at Seton Hall University. Institute offers a Graduate Specialization and Post-Graduate Certificate in Infant Mental Health.  Institute operates the state’s only licensed, Medicaid approved mental health clinic, specializing in infants and young children, birth to six years, and their families.  Institute is one of 60 national Brazelton Touchpoints Centers.  Principal activities: Conduct trainings and ongoing consultations in Infant Mental Health and DIR approaches to assessment and intervention. Clinician and supervisor. Serve on graduate adjunct faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson and Seton Hall Universities. Served as consultant to Pathways to Prevention - infant mental health consultation project under the Early Head Start -National Resource Center (EHS-NRC). 
• Certificates:  DIR Certificate as a Developmental Psychologist, Brazelton Touchpoints-Faculty Level Training
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2001

Diane Cullinane, M.D..
Developmental Pediatrican

620 North Lake Avenue,
Pasadena, CA 91101

Phone:  626-793-7350

E-Mail: diane@pasadenachilddevelopment.org

• Title: Executive Director, Pasadena Child Development Associates, Inc.
• Current Activities: Director of private, non-profit interdisciplinary agency that provides services to over 700 children with developmental disabilities in the greater Los Angeles area. Dr. Cullinane is board certified in Developmental-behavioral Pediatrics, and in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Dr. Cullinane is actively involved in direct service as well as staff training, supervision, and conference presentations.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2008

Lisa deFaria, LCSW, BCD
Licensed Clinical Social Worker

125 Bethany Drive, #B, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 and 621 Forest Ave., #3-E, Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Phone: 831-461-9500
E-Mail: ldefaria@sbcglobal.net

• Title:  LCSW
• Current Activities: Psychotherapist; DIR/Floortime Program Consultant; Clinical Supervisor & Trainer
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2001
  

Mona Delahooke, Ph.D.
Psychology

225 South First Ave #204
Arcadia, CA 91006

Phone: 626-445-0454, 626-458-8150
E-Mail: mdelahooke@socal.rr.com

• Title:  Clinical Psychologist, Infant Mental Health Specialist
• Current Activities: Clinical and Consulting Practice, Specializing in Early Development, Arcadia, CA; Faculty member, Interdisciplinary Training Institute; Faculty member, Early Intervention Training Institute (EITI) of the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic; DIR Consultation and Collaborative Interdisciplinary Training, provided to foster care agencies, regional centers and school districts in the greater Los Angeles Area.  Most recent publication: “Retraining Clinicians to work with Birth to Five Year Olds” in the Handbook of Training and Practice in Infant and Preschool Mental Health, Finello (Ed) Jossey-Bass 2006.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2005
  
  

Griff Doyle, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist

4400 East-West Highway, Suite 329
Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: 301-652-8308
E-Mail: griffdoyle@aol.com

• Title:  Co-Chair & Faculty Member Infant Mental Health Postgraduate Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry (Washington, DC); Consultant- Infant and Toddlers Program (Baltimore, MD)
• Current Activities: Griff is a clinical psychologist in private practice treating children of all ages, adolescents, adults, and couples. His work has focused for over twenty five years on the DIR developmental model and practice with developmentally delayed, regulatory and autism spectrum disordered children and their families. He also has served for over ten years in several jurisdictions throughout Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia as an expert witness on attachment/separation, early development, and autism spectrum disorders. Griff is a senior faculty member of the DIR Training Institute Program and a member of the ICDL Advisory Board. In addition, he has been a core faculty member for fifteen years and past Co-Chair of the Infant Mental Health Postgraduate Seminar Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry (Washington, DC). He is clinical consultant to the treatment team at the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative (York University; Toronto, CA) studying the effectiveness of DIR intervention with autism spectrum disordered children and their families. He has presented and conducted numerous workshops on parents' role in promoting growth with their or atypically developing children, infant development, parent-child attachments, regulatory and autism spectrum disorders. His published articles include the subjects of forgiveness, the internal world of the infant, and in-depth book reviews on child development and neuro-relational treatment approaches to infants and children. In 2009, Griff was cited through a randomized, peer survey conducted throughout the Washington, DC metro area by WASHINGTONIAN magazine as a regional expert clinician in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2001
  
  

Barbara Dunbar, Ph.D.
Psychology

The Blackstone Centre
1777 NE Expressway, Suite 175
Atlanta, GA 30328

Phone: 404-378-1423
E-Mail: bardunbar@bellsouth.net

• Title:  Developmental psychologist
• Current Activities: Clinical practice; part of Floortime Atlanta; Board of Lionheart; Director, Oakdale School; Consulting psychologist to Paideia School, also coordinate half-day program; adjunct faculty and researcher at Georgia State University; Coordinated Early Identification project with CDC; provide parent training, pre-school and school consultant;DIR® mentoring groups; neonatal specialist.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Lorraine Ehlers-Flint, Ph.D.
Psychology

501 East Boston Post Road
Mamaroneck, NY 10543

Phone: 914-472-2882
E-Mail: lehlersflintphd@gmail.com

• Current Activities: Private practice focusing primarily on children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families within an interdisciplinary team model.  Supervise doctoral psychology students completing clinical work in community based or hospital intervention programs for children with disabilities and their families.  Adjunct faculty at local psychology doctoral program and dissertation committee member. Preschool mental health consultant.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2002
  
  

Joshua D. Feder, M.D.
Child and Family Psychiatry

415 North Highway 101
Solana Beach, CA 92075

Phone: 858-509-0523
E-Mail: jdfeder@pol.net

• Current Activities:  Dr. Feder specializes in neurobehavioral medicine, applying DIR/Floortime® methods with families and in schools.   Dr Feder participates in ICDL research projects, conducts local and regional tutoring groups with Certification candidates, consults to the Hope Infant family Support Program, a zero-to-three program, and hosts local support groups for professionals and families.  Dr Feder sits on the BRIDGE (Bond Regulate Interact Develop Guide Engage) Collaborative, a community-wide effort for early identification and intervention in San Diego County.  As an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Dr Feder teaches medical ethics to psychiatry residents and serves as medical education director for the Rady Children’s Hospital Autism Research Group. Dr Feder serves on the Ethics Committee of the San Diego Psychiatry Society, the local chapter of the American Psychiatric Association, and has served on the Autism Committee and on the Medications and Autism panel of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  Dr Feder reviews grants for the Organization for Autism Research and the National Foundation for Autism Research and is a principal investigator in the Duke Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Treatment Network (CAPTN), conducting studies on clinical antidepressant effects and pharmacogenomics, and he is a regular commentator on ValeriesList, a web-based information service focused on autism and related disorders.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2007

Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D.
Psychology

Phone: :  718-430-3963;  212-722-7675
E-Mail: GMSqF@AOL.com

• Title:  Associate Professor of School-Clinical Child Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York; Senior Clinical Supervisor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York; Faculty Member, Infant-Parent Study Center, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, New York
• Current Activities: Teaching, supervision, consultation, private practice, research and writing
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Sima Gerber, Ph.D., C.C.C.
Speech-Language Pathology

Queens College
CUNY
162 Burns Street
Forest Hills, NY  11375

Phone: 718-997-2934
E-Mail: simagerber@verizon.net

• Title:  Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders of Queens College, CUNY
• Current Activities:  Graduate Admissions Coordinator of the Masters program in Speech-Language Pathology; Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders; Faculty of the DIR Certificate Program; Board of Directors of the New York Zero to Three Network; Faculty of the Institute for Infants, Children, and Families
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  1999
  
  

Ira Glovinsky, Ph.D.
Psychology
Special Education

6022 West Maple Road, Suite #408
West Bloomfield, Michigan 48322

Phone: 248-538-9070
E-Mail: Ira1834@sbcglobal.net

• Current Activities:  Private practice, work with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children with mood disorders including depression and bipolar disorder. Work with families with children on the autistic spectrum. Director of the Mood Disorder Program at The Interdisciplinary Center for the Family, in West Bloomfield, Michigan. This program is designed to assess and treat children with mood disorders, work with parents in parent support groups and parent advocacy groups; Clinical Director of The Village Educational Center, a therapeutic preschool and kindergarten in Berkley, Michigan; research in bipolar disorder including identifying early signs of bipolar disorder, the use of actigraphy in diagnosing bipolar disorder in children. Coordinating a collaborative research team with the Interdisciplinary Center for the Family and Psychology program at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan; Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at Madonna University, teaching Life-span development in the undergraduate psychology program at Madonna University; Co-Chair Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health 2005 Conference.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2001
  
  

Lois Gold, O.T.R.
Occupational Therapy

Center for Pediatric Therapy
Coral Gables, FL

Phone: 305-448-7101
E-Mail: pfeffer1@bellsouth.net

• Title:  Director, Occupational Therapy
• Current Activities: Working with infants to adolescence, infant mental health/parent coaching, diads, consultations to schools, preschool transition morning program
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2006
  
  

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry

7201 Glenbrook Road
Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: 301-657-2348
E-Mail: stanleygreenspanmd@comcast.net

• Title:  Practicing Child and Adult Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst; Clinical Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, George Washington University Medical School; Supervising Child Psychoanalyst, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Chair, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), Co-Chair, Council on Human Development
• Current Activities: Researcher on the prevention and treatment of emotional and developmental disorders in infants and children; Chair, ICDL (1997-); a founder and president (1975-84) of ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families; Chairman, Diagnostic Classification Committee, ZERO TO THREE: NCITF (1988-96); Past Chief, Mental Health Study Center and Clinical Infant Development Program, National Institute of Mental Health; Editorial Boards:  Clinical Infant Reports (Chair); Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Journal of Preventive Psychiatry, Journal of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Infant Mental Health Journal, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research; Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders (Chair).
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Cindy Harrison, M.S., Reg. CASLPO
Speech-Language Pathology

2280 St. Laurent Blvd. Suite 106
Ottawa, ON, Canada  K1G 4K1

Phone: 613-738-2871, ext. 223
E-Mail: charrison@communicare.on.ca

• Title:  Co-Owner, CommuniCare Therapy
• Current Activities: Joint appointment to the University of Ottawa. Owner of a private practice that provides assessment and treatment to children, adolescents and adults with disorders of relating and communicating and their families.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2002
  
  

Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology
Special Education

Phone: 415-752-4705 or 415-456-0111
E-Mail: BKalmanson@earthlink.net

• Current Activities: Clinical Director Oak Hill School, Marin City, CA - founder of DIR elementary and high school; Clinical Psychologist, San Francisco and Marin Counties, CA psychotherapy and consultation for families, professionals and agencies including Through the Looking Glass, Berkeley; Pacific Autism Center for Education, San Jose; Sojourn Services for Children, Santa Barbara; The Infant- Parent Program, UCSF, San Francisco, The Child Development Center of California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco; Faculty, Child Development Program, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute; ICDL -DMIC work group; ICDL research group; publications focus on family-provider relationships, early diagnosis and intervention, principles of infant mental health and of DIR.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Monica G. Osgood
Psychology
Education

Celebrate the Children           
Lakefront Professional Center, Top Floor
295 Route 46 East
Budd Lake, NJ 07828

Phone: 973-448-PLAY
E-Mail: Osgood@celebratethechildren.org

• Title:  Director, Private School
• Current Activities: Director of State Approved Private School: Director of Therapy center that provides social skills groups, home programs, assessments, individual therapy, and summer camps; Consultations to home programs in the UK; Speaking engagements in US, UK, and Europe.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2001
  
  

Beth Osten, M.S., O.T.R./L
Occupational Therapy

5225 Old Orchard Rd., Suite 18
Skokie, IL 60077

Phone: 847-663-1020, ext. 18
E-Mail: bethosten@gmail.com

• Title:  Owner and Director, Beth Osten and Assoc.
• Current Activities: Regulatory Sensory Processing definition work group, Research on children with extreme regulatory disorders with Ira Glovinski, Adjunct Faculty: Erkison Institute, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, University of Illinois; ICDL Faculty; National and international speaker on the DIR model, Sensory processing disorders in young children; Coauthor of the Test of Infant Motor Performance (TIMP)
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2001
  
  

Stephanie Pass, Ph.D.
Psychology

672 Second Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118

Phone: 415-752-6246
E-Mail: sfpass@sbcglobal.net

• Title:  Clinical Psychologist
• Current Activities: Private practice in San Francisco; Consultant on the DIR model and on infant and child mental health for agencies and school districts throughout California; Teaching in various graduate programs and institutes, including The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA and the Access Institute in San Francisco; Write for various professional publications; Worked previously at the Infant-Parent Program and Daycare Consultants at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2002
  
  

Kathleen A. Platzman, Ph.D.
Developmental Psychology

The Blackstone Centre
1777 NE Expressway, Suite 175
Atlanta, GA 30328

Phone: 404-373-8335
E-Mail: platzman@floortimeatlanta.com

• Title:  Private Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
• Current Activities: Private practitioner in Atlanta; Part of a transdisciplinary practice treating infants, children and their families. The practice has psychologists, counselors, speech, occupational therapists, and educators. It focus on children with a wide range of neurological and cognitive problems that affect social, emotional, and communicative function.  The practice uses the DIR model when working with the children.  It offers diagnostic evaluation and consultation, treatment, parent training and coaching, team training and coaching, consultation to schools, and professional courses; Sponsors monthly professional meetings for professionals in the Atlanta area who use or wish to know more about the DIR approach; Co-Investigator on several projects focusing on long term developmental effects of prenatal drug exposure.  Currently involved with projects focusing on effects of nicotine exposure on language development from 0-24 months, cocaine exposure on self-regulation and neurocognitive status and brain structure and function in adolescents, and brain structure and function in adults with prenatal alcohol exposure.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2004
  
  

Jo Raphael, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Social Work

The Blackstone Centre
1777 NE Expressway, Suite 175
Atlanta, GA 30328

Phone: 678-799-9135

E-Mail: jraphael1@comcast.net

• Title: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Current Activities: Private Practice utilizing the DIR®/Floortime™ model offering psychotherapy and consultation to children, families and adults.  Provide clinical supervision, training and workshops to professionals and agencies.  Clinical Supervisor for the Play Project.  Consultant to the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2007
  
  

Ricki Robinson, M.D., MPH
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 

1346 Foothill Blvd., Suite 301
La Canada, CA  91011

Phone:  818-790-1587
E-Mail:  rrobinsonmd@dmcdl.com

• Title:  Co-Director, Descanso Medical Center for Development and Learning

  Clinical Specialty:  Board certified pediatrician; developmental pediatrics; Master’s degree in Public Health

  Current Activities:  Private Practice; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine-University of Southern California; Board Member, International Council for Development and Learning; Autism Speaks Scientific Advisory Council.  Dr. Robinson is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker on the topic of biomedical approaches to and development of multidisciplinary treatment plans for children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders.

  Dr Robinson has been involved in the field of autism since 1990, working in her local community developing a multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment program for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders following the DIR model.  A central figure in the evolution of CAN (Cure Autism Now) Foundation, she has devoted endless hours educating physicians and parents.  She has organized two autism task forces in Southern California teaching centers and stimulated research efforts within these institutions.  She was instrumental in the development of an educational program for these children through the nationally acclaimed Villa Esperanza School, for which she received their highest honor.   She is a founding board member of the Interdisciplinary Council of Development and Learning and for the past ten years has been on the planning committee for their annual conference.

   Joined the DIR Faculty:  1999

Ruby Salazar, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.
Clinical Social Work

Phone: 570-586-3587
E-Mail: rubysa1@aol.com

• Title:  Director and Senior Clinician at Salazar Associates; Adjunct Faculty at Marywood University and Keystone College; Faculty at the Institute for Children and Infants and The Napa Valley Infant Mental Health Program.
• Current Activities: Member BCD and ACSW; Pennsylvania Coordinator ~ Touchpoints; Founding Member ~ Pennsylvania Autism Taskforce; Pennsylvania's Autism Diagnosis and Assessment Workgroup ~ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Consultant ~ Bucks County Assessment Model Project; Consultant ~ The Arc of Montgomery County Children's Services Early Intervention DIR®  Model Project; Consultant ~ various Pennsylvania and New Jersey Public School Districts
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Diane Selinger, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

5225 Old Orchard Rd., Suite 22
Skokie, IL

Phone: 847-583-1849
E-Mail: DSelinger1@aol.com

• Current Activities:  Private therapist in a multidisciplinary practice that treats infants, children and their families. Treatment includes parental coaching, individual therapy of children and adults, family therapy, and multidisciplinary group therapy; Co-director of a preschool and kindergarten therapeutic play group program; Mentor and consultant to DIR therapists and practices, as well as to school programs; organizer and supervisor of practicum and internship training for doctoral psychology students interested in learning DIR within the multidisciplinary practice. 
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2002
  
  

Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, L.C.S.W., Ph.D.
Child Psychology
Social Work
Early Childhood Education

246 West End Ave., Apt 11D            
New York, NY 10029

Phone: 212-632-4741 or 646-247-9911
E-Mail: rss@jbfcs.org

• Title:  Director, Institute for Infants, Children & Families; Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services
• Current Activities:  Director, Institute for Infants, Children & Families, JBFCS, which includes two transdisciplinary training programs for individuals: Early Childhood Group Therapy Program and the Infant-Parent Study Center; Consultation and tailored training for programs; Private Practice- Children, babies, families, adults, couples/parents; Editorial Board, The Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders; Editorial Board, The Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; Facilitator,  Interdisciplinary/Case Study Group on Assessment and Intervention with Autistic Spectrum Young Children and Their Families; Facilitator, New York Zero-to-Three Network Study Groups; Leadership; Founder and Board Member, Co-President (2001-2004), New York Zero-to-Three Network; Board Member, Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families; Advisory Board Member, Rita Gold Infant and Early Childhood Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Board Member, Martha K. Selig Educational Institute, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; Founding President (1981-1991) and  Board Member, Abraham Joshua Heschel School (preschool thru high school), New York City
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Moshe Shtuhl, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

11150 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 150
Reston VA 20190

Phone: 703-471-5517 (ext. 91)
E-Mail: moshe.shtuhl@familycompassgroup.com

• Title:  Director of Family Compass
• Current Activities: 

  Directing practice involved in DIR work with children in the autism spectrum; Group therapy using drama therapy techniques; Neuropsychological testing for children; Comprehensive interventions for children with Asperger Syndrome/non-verbal learning disabilities.

• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  1999
  

Maria Teresa Sindelar
Psychology

E-Mail: mtsindelar@ticino.com or mtsindelar@hotmail.com

• Title: Clinical psychologist
• Current Activities: 

  Dr. Maria Teresa Sindelar started introducing the DIR model in Italy and Switzerland in 2003 through introductory workshops given in the Jung Institute of Zurich as well as in Pisa and Empoli. During 2004-2006, Sindelar have introduced DIR contents in post-graduate courses given in Matera (Basilicata), Pisa, Empoli, and as part of the master curriculum on the Insubria University in Lombardia.In September 2006, the “Renato Piatti” Foundation, together with the Insubria University, organized the international conference “Engaging Autism”. This conference, given by Dr. Serena Wieder and Teresa Sindelar, and had the participation of Dr Greenspan through videoconferencing, was attended by more than 300 professionals coming from Italy, Switzerland, France, Portugal and Croacia. Dr. Sindelar has also supervised interdisciplinary teams using the DIR model in private and public neuropsychiatry clinics (ASL 11 Empoli, Fondazione Stella Maris, Pisa; Centro Riabilitativo Bezzozo, Varese, etc) and given numerous workshops for parents and educators. These activities facilitated the recent creation of a DIR parent network in Italy, France and Croatia.

• DIR® Faculty

Richard Solomon, M.D.
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

1601 Briarwood Circle, Suite 500
Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Phone: 734-997-9088
E-Mail: drrick@aacenter.org

• Title:  Medical Director, Ann Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Medical Director and Founder of The PLAY Project™  (Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters)
• Current Activities: Private practice; Opened 40 PLAY Project Home Consulting programs in 15 states; Article evaluating the effectiveness of The PLAY Project published in the peer-reviewed British journal, Autism (May 2007); Awarded a research grant by the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct a randomized, controlled clinical trial of The PLAY Project; Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Michigan; Editorial Board for ICDL; Chairman, Autism Committee, Michigan Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty:  2001
  
  

Rosemary White, Dip.O.T.
Occupational Therapy

18801 37th NE
Seattle, WA, 98155

Phone: 206-367-5853
E-Mail: aussiebud@comcast.net

• Title:  OTR/L
• Current Activities: Director Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy Services, Seattle, WA; Director Play Project West, Seattle; Partner Pacific Northwest Pediatric Therapy, Portland, Oregon; Adjunct Clinical Faculty Infant Mental Health Certificate Program, University of Washington
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2002
  
  

Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

1315 Woodside Parkway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:  301-588-9122

Phone: 301-588-2132
E-Mail: swieder@erols.com

• Title:  Co-Chair, Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL); Director:  DIRâ Institute; Director:  DIRâ Institute at the Baker Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel; Co-Editor, J. of Developmental Processes; Research: Diagnostic Classification; Long term follow up of children treated with DIRâ; Consultant, Bridges Program, Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston, TX; Treatment and Learning Center, Rockville, MD; Board Member, Floortime Foundation; Board Member, Zero to Three – National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families; Faculty, Washington School of Psychiatry Infant Mental Health Program
• Current Activities: Clinical and consulting practice; publications on the diagnosis and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders and infant mental; national and international training in DIRâ Floortime.
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Molly Romer Witten, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Candidate Psychoanalyst

Parent Child Workshop
122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1301
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Phone: (312) 765-0246

• Title:  Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Adjunct Faculty, Erikson Institute; Clinical Director, Parent Child Workshop
• Current Activities: Private Practice.  Supervision of DIR clinicians and multi-disciplinary reflective mentorship/consultation.  Creator and Instructor of the DIR developmental interventions course, the DIR clinical seminar and internship, and one of the two infant mental health diagnostics courses at the Infant Mental Health program at the Erikson Institute.  Used Griff Doyle’s outline to develop a 6 month Floor Time Players training program for the floortime players who work for families that consult with me (there are 8 individuals enrolled in this current training cycle).  Clinical oversight of a therapeutic play group for children ages 18 mo. to 4.5 yrs. (The Parent-Child Workshop).  Exploring the use of quasi-experimental research design and methods for evaluation and treatment-outcome studies.  Consultant for Chicago Public Schools’ DIR program for 2005-2006 school year (specific schools and programs). 
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 1999
  
  

Shaily Atsmon, S.L.P.,M.A.
Speech-Language Pathology

12 Avner Str., Zahala
Tel- Aviv, ISRAEL, 69937

Phone: 01197236481552
E-Mail: katsmon@bezeqint.net

• Clinical Specialty:  Communication Disorders; Speech, Language and Voice Therapy; Family Therapist in training
• Current Activities:  In private practice, working with special needs children and their families, focusing on evaluation and treatment of the whole family system, utilizing the DIR approach. Consulting to professional teams in child development centers on implementing DIR within their framework (voluntary work).  Inclusion coordinator for the children I work with; training early childhood educators and aids who are interested in inclusion and one- on- one work with the child.
• Faculty in Training:  2005

Yael Binya, B.A.
Occupational Therapy

Mount Yaela St 198
Messilat Zion, Israel

Phone: 972-2-992299
E-Mail: yaelbb@013.net.il

• Title: Occupational Therapist, psychotherapist; student in the department for child development; private practice, Bar Ilan University
• Current Activities: Therapist, Research: Baker Center for Research and Treatment of Children with Special Needs Bar Ilan University; Organizer of DIR® activities in Israel and a Faculty member in the Israeli Dir steering committee since 2004
• Joined the DIR® Faculty: 2004

Mari Caulfield
Speech Language Pathology

Phone: 00353 91 796600

E-Mail: speech@maricaulfield.com

Title: Speech and Language Therapist, Supervisor

Kathy Walmsley, OTR/L
Occupational Therapy

Connections OT Services
3 Pearson Place
Floreat
Perth, Australia 6014

Phone:  618-938-78538
E-Mail:  kathy_walmsley@hotmail.com

Alisa Vig, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

Har Adar, Israel

Phone: +972-52-4376400

E-mail: alisa@drvig.com