Ruby Salazar is a child and family psychotherapist who has worked with children and families for over forty years. She is the Founder and Director of Pennsylvania Lifespan Services, a family-focused practice of developmental and mental health professionals with offices in Clarks Summit and Narberth, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Lifespan Services has nationally lead excellent care and provided services for many since 1982.
Mrs. Salazar received a BS from New York University and MSS from Smith College, followed by a post graduate psychoanalytic certificate in the treatment of children from the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute, New York City.
Having practiced, consulted, published, lectured, and trained with a focus on developmental and family care, and taught at Columbia University, Marywood University, Keystone College and ICDL Graduate School, she currently is on the faculties of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Medical School, Fielding University, Profectum Academy (and was a founding member), The Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate Fellowship Program at UMass Napa. Mrs. Salazar is PA Touchpoints site coordinator, having co-founded, the first medical Touchpoints program. She worked in the office of three PA governors as a child-care consultant and was appointed to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Council for Children. Mrs. Salazar was also appointed to the PA Department of Welfare Workgroup to establish Autism Assessment Policy and clinically directed both the ASD Comprehensive Assessment Project and the PA Department of Early Intervention Reflective Supervision Project. Proudly, Mrs. Salazar chaired candidate Obama’s first Autism Workgroup who drafted the bill which became ASD Federal Law.
Mrs. Salazar has received many professional awards, among them the first Sally Provence Award for excellence in infant and family practice from Zero to Three, National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, Girl Scouts of America Professional of the Year award and National Guidance Counselors Association Professional Excellence award, all Washington, D.C.
Ruby Salazar, LCSW, BCD
Difficulties with executive function are often evident in early childhood and challenge the course of development in the child and family. This longitudinal case will explore both the strengths and challenge of executive functioning in a child into adulthood who began at age three with an Autism diagnosis and with limited internal resources and difficulty responding to external supports. The DIR model was consistently implemented to activate executive functioning. Three developmental stages: preschool, pre-puberty and late adolescence will highlight the focus on core elements and specific constellations of the individual profile in executive functioning in the service of intentionality, relating, learning and achieving goals. Discussion will focus on developmental progression over time, differential diagnostic changes, and linking the intervention to the specific profile shifts and needs of the child in his family and community.
Difficulties with executive function are often evident in early childhood and challenge the course of development in the child and family. This longitudinal case will explore both the strengths and challenge of executive functioning in a child into adulthood who began at age three with an Autism diagnosis and with limited internal resources and difficulty responding to external supports. The DIR model was consistently implemented to activate executive functioning. Three developmental stages: preschool, pre-puberty and late adolescence will highlight the focus on core elements and specific constellations of the individual profile in executive functioning in the service of intentionality, relating, learning and achieving goals. Discussion will focus on developmental progression over time, differential diagnostic changes, and linking the intervention to the specific profile shifts and needs of the child in his family and community.
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