Faculty List

	Stanley Greenspan, MD. Child and Adult Psychiatry Phone: 301-657-2348 E-Mail: stanleygreenspan@gmail.com Dr. Greenspan is a founding president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, and past director of the NIMH Mental Health Study Center and the Clinical Infant Development Program. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL). Dr. Greenspan is author of over 100 scholarly articles and chapters and author or editor of over forty books, translated into over a dozen languages. His research has been featured in all the major media, including Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, New York Times, ABC, NBC, and CBS news broadcasts, and the subject of a PBS NOVA documentary, “Life’s First Feelings.”
	Serena Wieder, PhD Child Psychology Clinical Psychology 1315 Woodside Parkway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: 301-588-2132 or 301-588-9122 E-Mail: swieder@erols.com Serena Wieder, Ph.D., has been the Associate Chair of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders since its foundation, and the Director of the Certificate program offered by ICDL since 2000. She has also been a Board Member and the Co-Chairman of the Diagnostic Classification Task Force for the Zero to Three Organization: The National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, since 1987 and is currently faculty and supervisor at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Infant Mental Health program. Dr. Wieder was the Executive, Clinical and Research Director of the Reginald Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children (Maryland) between 1983 and 1987. Dr. Wieder joined the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) as principal investigator and clinical director for the Infant Development program between 1978-1983. Dr. Wieder is one of the nation’s leading clinicians, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of infants and young children with developmental delays. Together with Dr. Greenspan, she has co-authored several books, including The Child with Special Needs (Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth) and the recently published book Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: a Comprehensive developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention. Dr. Wieder is the associate editor of the Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, has published widely in the professional literature, and has conducted many national and international training workshops in the diagnosis and treatment of complex developmental problems.
	Barbara Kalmanson, PhD Academic Dean, ICDL Graduate School Clinical Psychology & Special Education Phone: 415-752-4705 or 415-456-0111 E-Mail: BKalmanson@earthlink.net Dr. Kalmanson has over 30 years of experience working with schools, children and their families. She is a founder of the Oak Hill School in Marin City, California. Dr. Kalmanson has extensive experience as a clinical psychologist, a special educator, and as an infant mental health consultant including work with the Infant-Parent Program at University of California in San Francisco; The San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, Child Development Program; California Pacific Medical Center, Child Development Center and in private practice in San Francisco and Marin County. She consults to schools and agencies nationwide. She has served on multiple boards of directors including the Mayor's Advisory Board on Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health in San Francisco, California. She received her doctorate in Psychology and Special Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kalmanson is a recipient of the Zero to Three: the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families Harris Fellowship, The Frederic Burk Foundation for Education Fellowship and a National Institute of Mental Health Training grant. Her many publications focus on diagnosis and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders, affective development, relationship-based intervention and the importance of family-provider relationships. Dr. Kalmanson's CV
	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
	Cecilia Breinbauer, MD, MPH . Child Psychiatry, Public Health Phone: (301) 983-3537 E-Mail: cbreinbauer@icdl.com Dr. Breinbauer has a combined educational background as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a Public Health specialist. She received her medical degree from the University of Chile and her Master Degree in Public Health from the George Washington University. Dr. Breinbauer has extensive experience working at the clinical, community and policy level promoting Early Child and Adolescent Development. She has worked for the Pan American Health Organization (2001-2005) providing technical advice and supporting child and adolescent health and development projects in more than 12 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. She has also worked as an external consultant for UNICEF and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) supporting and evaluating early child development projects. Dr. Breinbauer is a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health. Dr Breinbauer has many publications in early child development, adolescent development, and public health. She has been a guest lecturer for multiple international organizations, including, among others, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Population Council, Zero to Three Organization, and the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development. Dr. Breinbauer's CV
	Devin Casenhiser, PhD Infant Mental Health Research, Language Learning and Development Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext 20431 E-Mail: dcasenhi yorku.ca Dr. Casenhiser completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois specializing in Psycholinguistics. He later worked at Princeton University where he conducted post-doctoral research in the department of Psychology. Dr. Casenhiser is currently the Head of Research at the Milton & Ethel Harris Research initiative (MEHRI), at York University, Canada. His work focuses on cognitive psychology with a particular interest in child language learning and development. Dr. Casenhiser's CV
	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 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). .
	Griff Doyle, PhD Clinical Psychology Phone: 301-652-8308 E-Mail: griffdoyle@mac.com Dr. Doyle has Co-Chaired and is a Faculty Member of the Infant Mental Health Postgraduate Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry (Washington, DC). He is also a consultant of the Infant and Toddlers Program in Baltimore, Maryland, and has significant clinical and post-graduate teaching experience.
	Barbara Dunbar, PhD Clinical and Developmental Psychology Phone: 404-378-1423 E-Mail: bardunbar@bellsouth.net Dr. Dunbar has coordinated the Early Identification Project for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Georgia. She is also an adjunct faculty and researcher at Georgia State University. Dr Dunbar has extensive clinical experience and as a consultant improving educational programs for children with special needs.
	Lorraine Ehlers-Flint, PhD. Clinical Psychology Phone: 510-864-0794 E-Mail: lehlersflintphd@gmail.com Dr. Ehlers-Flint has focused her extensive clinical practice in working with children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families using an interdisciplinary team model. She also supervise doctoral psychology students completing clinical work in community based or hospital intervention programs for children with disabilities and their families. Dr. Ehlers-Flint has served as adjunct faculty at psychology doctoral program and dissertation committee member and worksin the NY area as a preschool mental health consultant.
	Alan Fogel, Ph.D Psychology Phone: 801-581-8560 E-mail: alan.fogel@psych.utah.edu Alan Fogel is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Miami (Florida), his masters at Columbia University (New York), and his PhD in Education at the University of Chicago in 1976. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. He taught at Purdue University from 1976 to 1988, and has been at the University of Utah since then. He has been an active contributor to research on infant social and emotional development and is one of the first to apply dynamic systems (or chaos) theory to the study of developmental change processes. His theoretical perspective is best summarized in Developing through Relationships (University of Chicago Press), and he as authored a textbook on infant development, Infancy: Infant, family, and society, 5th edition, Sloan Publishing
	Gil Foley, Ed.D. Clinical Child Psychology Phone: : 718-430-3963; 212-722-7675 E-Mail: GMSqF@AOL.com Dr. Foley is an associate Professor of School-Clinical Child Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York. he is also a Senior Clinical Supervisor at the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York. Dr Foley is a Faculty Member of the Infant-Parent Study Center, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, New York. His current activities include teaching, supervision, consultation, private practice, research and writing.
	Sima Gerber, PhD, C.C.C. Speech-Language Pathology Phone: 718-997-2934 E-Mail: simagerber@verizon.net Sima Gerber is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders of Queens College, City University of New York. She is currently the Graduate Admissions Coordinator of the Masters program in Speech-Language Pathology. Dr. Gerber has taught courses in language acquisition and language disorders in children and has supervised graduate students' clinical work for over 30 years. Dr. Gerber is on the Advisory Board of the Interdisicplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, on the faculty of the DIR Certificate Program, on the Board of Directors of the New York Zero to Three Network, and on the faculty of the Institute for Infants, Children, and Families. Dr. Gerber has presented many workshops and seminars on the topics of language acquisition and developmental approaches to language intervention in the United States and abroad. She has recently completed a training video supported by the Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation which illustrates the use of developmental language acquisition models for language assessment and language intervention. Dr. Gerber has published numerous articles and has recently received an award for Outstanding Professional Achievement from the New York City Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Louis Di Carlo Award for Outstanding Clinical Achievement from the New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
	Ira Glovinsky, Ph.D. Psychology & Special Education Phone: 248-538-9070 E-Mail: Ira1834@sbcglobal.net Ira Glovinsky is a clinical psychologist. His major interest areas are pediatric bipolar disorder and autism spectrum disorders. He has co-authored to books on children with mood disorders and bipolar patterns with Dr. Stanley Greenspan. He is currently doing research on the earliest signs of mood disorders in young children. Dr. Glovinsky is Director of the Mood Disorder Program at The Interdisciplinary Center for the Family in West Bloomfield, Michigan. He is Associate Editor of "The Journal of Developmental Processes." He is also an Adjunct Professor i the School of Education at Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan.
	Ellen L. Halpern, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology Phone Number: 908-361-3733 E-mai: anamgirl@earthlink.net Ellen L. Halpern is a licensed psychologist on the staff of Salazar Associates in Clarks Summit, PA. In addition to clinical practice, she teaches Statistics, Developmental Psychology, and other clinical and methods courses at NY/NJ area univerisities. She has completed postgraduate training in neuropsych research, infant mental health, and statistics for mental health research, and is in the process of obtaining DIR certification. From 1999-2005, she directed the program evaluation component of the Head Start - Early Childhood Group Therapy: Relationships for Growth project in NYC. She has been an independent research and statistics consultant since 1993. Prior to her career as a psychologist, she was a systems analyst.
	Kathleen A. Platzman, Ph.D. Developmental Psychology Floortime Atlanta 1970 Cliff Valley Way, Suite 107 Atlanta, GA 30329 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
	Ruby Salazar L.C.S.W., B.C.D. , Clinical Social Work Phone: 570-586-3587 E-Mail: rubysa1@aol.com Ruby Salazar is the Director and Senior Clinician at Salazar Associates. She is also Adjunct Faculty at Marywood University and Keystone College; Faculty at the Institute for Children and Infants and The Napa Valley Infant Mental Health Program. Salazar is a member of the Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (BCD) and the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW). She is also the Pennsylvania Coordinator for Touchpoints and a Founding Member of the Pennsylvania Autism Taskforce; Pennsylvania's Autism Diagnosis and Assessment Workgroup, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Salazar is a Consultant for Bucks County Assessment Model Project; for The Arc of Montgomery County Children's Services Early Intervention DIR® Model Project and for various Pennsylvania and New Jersey Public School Districts
	Stuart Shanker, D. Phil Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext 20386 E-Mail: shanker@yorku.ca Dr. Shanker is the Director of The Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative, at the York Universit, Canada. Through this research initiative, he is involved in a number of different studies looking at the processes involved in the development of language and reflective consciousness in young infants; studies in evolutionary theory involving nonhuman primates; and clinical studies designed to significantly enhance the capacities of children with various types of impairment. Prof. Shanker was educated at Oxford, where he obtained a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and a B Phil and D Phil in philosophy. He has received numerous academic distinctions, and his research is currently being funded by Cure Autism Now, The Harris Steel Foundation, The Templeton Foundation, and The Unicorn Foundation. Among his recent publications are Apes, language and the human mind (with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Talbot Taylor, 1998); Wittgenstein.s remarks on the foundations of AI (1998); and most recently, The First Idea (with Stanley Greenspan, 2004). In addition to serving as Co-Director of the Council of Human Development, he is also the Chair for Canada of the Interdisciplinary Council of Learning and Developmental Disorders.
	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
	Rick Solomon, MD Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Phone: 734-997-9088 E-Mail: drrick@aacenter.org Dr. Solomon is the Medical Director of the Ann Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Michigan. He is also the Director and Founder of The PLAY PROJECT (Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters). Dr Solomon has opened 40 PLAY Project Home Consulting programs in 15 state. He was recently awarded a research grant by the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct a randomized, controlled clinical trial of The PLAY Project. Dr. Solomon is the Chairman, Autism Committee, Michigan Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics.
	Harry Wachs, OD . Visual-Spatial Development Phone: E-Mail: Director of The Vision and Conceptual Development Center. Dr Wachs is co-author of the book Thinking Goes to School and the test Wachs Analysis of Cognitive Structures. He started studying Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget's theories about the nature and development of thinking, and began working with one of Piaget's colleagues on an educational innovation. In 1991, Wachs opened the center in Washington featuring developmental optometry based on a Piagetian approach. His visual-cognitive therapy regime is based on the premise that "visual-spatial knowledge" -- how we understand and manipulate what we see -- plays a major role in the way children live and learn.
	Rosemary White, OTR/L, Dip.O.T. Occupational Therapy Phone: 206-367-5853 E-Mail: aussiebud@comcast.net Rosemary White is the Director of the 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.