Barbara Bissonnette

Barbara Bissonnette is principal of Forward Motion Coaching, a certified coach and author, among many other significant publications, of The Asperger’s Workplace Survival Guide: A Neurotypical’s Secrets of Success. This book was a nominee for The Autism Society’s “Outstanding Literary Work of the Year” award.

www.forwardmotion.info

Tessa Kolff, M.Ed., BCBA

Tessa Kolff is principal of Steps to Success, LLC of Lexington, MA. Steps to Success is a dynamic provider of behaviorally-based consultation and educational services utilizing an applied behavior analysis (ABA) model. Unlike many other behavioral services providers, Steps to Success works with special needs, typical, and emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children of all ages.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stepstosuccessllc

Tal Baz, M.S., OTR/L

In her Cambridge private practice, Ms. Baz provides occupational and speech therapy to children with developmental challenges using the DIR/Floortime (developmental, individualized, relationship-based) model, which she also teaches to professionals at The Astra Foundation.

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David Stein, Psy.D.

Dr. David Stein is on the staff of the Developmental Medicine Center of Children’s Hospital Boston, where he is a supervisor in the Down Syndrome program. He will speak on Intellectual Disability.

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Elizabeth Fay Russell, M.A., C.A.G.S.

Elizabeth Russell, a certified school psychologist and guidance counselor, is Director of Admissions at Cotting School, in Lexington, MA. She will discuss Cotting School’s diverse population, programs and services.

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Michael Delman

Michael Delman is founder and president of Thinking Outside the Classroom, a Framingham, MA-based tutorial and coaching service specializing in the remediation of Executive Function deficits. Following eight years of teaching, he co-founded the Christa McAuliffe Regional Public Charter School, located in Framingham, and served as its principal for four years.

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Karen Levine, Ph.D.

Dr. Levine is a developmental psychologist, instructor at Harvard Medical School, was co-director of the Children’s Hospital Boston Autism program in the early nineties, and now is Clinical Director of the Autism Program at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is co-author, with Noami Chedd, of the 2007 book Replays: Using Play to Enhance Emotional And Behavioral Development for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr. Levine will speak about a recent update to Replays, now known as Affective Behavioral Play Therapy (ABT), and about observing school programs.

Dr. Levine also has a private practice in Lexington, MA called "Helping Children with Challenges."

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Dr. Sasha Yampolsky, Sc.D., CCC-SLP

Dr. Sasha Yampolsky is director of the Needham Speech-Language and Reading Clinic, which specializes in the connection between spoken and written language. Its mission is to help children and young adults overcome the barriers they face due to reading and language difficulties. Dr. Yampolsky holds a doctoral degree in speech-language pathology, with a focus on psycholinguistics, from Boston University. She was also Fulbright Scholar in Stockholm, Sweden, where she researched speech recognition technology.

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Adele Raade, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS

Dr. Adele Raade is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences of Boston University. She also operates a private practice in Reading, MA called Raade Communications Connections: Sensitive Services for Children Touched by Adoption or Foster Care. Dr. Raade specializes in the assessment and treatment of young, internationally-adopted children.

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Julie Bogdanski, M.A.

Julie Bogdanski is director of the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Center in Arlington, MA. Lindamood-Bell develops language processing so every child can learn to their potential. Ms. Bogdanski will discuss the new "Symbol Imagery" test and its use in the center's reading evaluations.

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Richard McManus

Richard McManus is a psychologist, teacher and educational consultant with more than 30 years of experience in all settings, public and private. He is director of the Beal Street Academy, a small, private school in Hingham, MA which provides intensive educational intervention for children at all grade levels in order to improve their academic performance. The Fluency Factory, a Precision Teaching learning center, is their affiliated tutoring service.

Beal Street Academy Website
Fluency Factory website

The Neuroscience of Neurofeedback: Current Research, Efficacy and

Clinical Psychologist Laurence Hirshberg, Ph.D. is one of this countryís foremost authorities on, and practitioners of neurofeedback, an EEG-based form of biofeedback. On the Department of Psychiatry faculty at Brown University Medical School, he has been certified by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America, is a Fellow of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research and has served on the Executive Board of the EEG Division of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He will speak on the current science, efficacy and exciting new therapeutic applications of neurofeedback in treating a wide variety of conditions including ADHD, anxiety and autism spectrum disorders.

Laurence Hirshberg, Ph.D., Director, The NeuroDevelopment Centers, Providence, R.I. and Cambridge, MA
http://neurodevelopmentcenter.com/