Rosemary White has been an occupational therapist since 1972 and brings a wealth of clinical experience to every workshop she teaches throughout the United States and internationally in Canada, Europe, South Africa, Uganda and Australia. Rosemary is a true clinician’s clinician! Rosemary received her neurodevelopmental therapy training in London with the Bobaths, her sensory integrative therapy training in Los Angeles with Dr. A Jean Ayres and her training in the DIRFloortime® model with Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, Ph.D. and the Faculty of ICDL. She currently owns and operates Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy Services in Seattle, Washington. Rosemary has her certificate in the DIR model and has been senior faculty on the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disabilities (ICDL) chaired by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D., since 2002. Rosemary is on the clinical faculty at the University of Washington in the School of Nursing Infant Mental Health Certificate Program. Rosemary is also faculty in the ICDL Graduate School in the Ph.D. in infant and early childhood mental health and developmental disorders. This is an on-line Ph.D. program providing education to professionals throughout the world. Rosemary is also Profectum Foundation Faculty.
Presenter: Rosemary White, OTR/L
This presentation features a young man who will reflect with his Occupational Therapist, Rosemary White, about his DIR Model sessions with her as a child. Their dialogue and video examples will emphasize how during these visits they were able to tap into his passions to support his engagement and interactions with peers as well as eventually increasing his flexibility with peers. These early passions will then be related to his current studies and career path, that includes working for King County Search and Rescue, educating staff in these positions on how to relate to individual with Autism and Asperger’s syndrome. He has also worked, for the past 4 years, as a DIR® Floortime Player in social groups and in Summer Camps. Video examples of his early sessions and current work as a Floortime Player will be shared.
This presentation features a young man who will reflect with his Occupational Therapist, Rosemary White, about his DIR Model sessions with her as a child. Their dialogue and video examples will emphasize how during these visits they were able to tap into his passions to support his engagement and interactions with peers as well as eventually increasing his flexibility with peers. These early passions will then be related to his current studies and career path, that includes working for King County Search and Rescue, educating staff in these positions on how to relate to individual with Autism and Asperger’s syndrome. He has also worked, for the past 4 years, as a DIR® Floortime Player in social groups and in Summer Camps. Video examples of his early sessions and current work as a Floortime Player will be shared.
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