by Ryan J. Stout | Mar 16, 2010 | All Blogs
Hi, This is Dr. Esther Hess and I am so excited to be coming to New York City and the surrounding areas to present DIR/Floortime and Sensory Processing Disorder. For me, ‘Floortime is Real Time’ and this lecture promises to be an interactive, fun and...
by Ryan J. Stout | Mar 11, 2010 | All Blogs
Written by Esther B. Hess, Ph.D. First published Feb. 10, 2010. Summit Professional Education Instructor – View Upcoming DIR/Floortime Seminars February is the month when many of us celebrate the possibilities of romance with Valentine’s Day. It comes as no...
by Ryan J. Stout | Mar 9, 2010 | All Blogs
The incidence of autism is continuing to grow meteorically. The CDC is now revising its figures to indicate that 1 in 100 children born in America fall into the autistic spectrum. This is approximately 1 in 80 boys. Other studies are showing that better than 1% of...
by Ryan J. Stout | Mar 5, 2010 | All Blogs
This past Tuesday (March 2nd, 2010), Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published a survey including responses from some 40,000 public school teachers in America. Their goal? Place teachers’ thoughts on the forefront in the discussions on...
by Ryan J. Stout | Mar 4, 2010 | All Blogs
Written by Doreit S. Bialer, M.A.,OTR/L Instructor, Summit Professional Education Sensory Processing, often referred to as Sensory Integration describes the manner in which the nervous system receives and processes information from sensory systems allowing an...
by Ryan J. Stout | Mar 2, 2010 | All Blogs
Excerpt from: PBS NewsHour Website Copyright © 1996-2010 MacNeil/Lehrer Productions JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: rethinking mental illness. For the first time in 16 years, the American Psychiatric Association is revising its essential dictionary, formally titled “The...