Multisensory Processing and Implications Panel Discussion

Mona M. Delahooke, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in the development of infants, children, and their families. She has received specialized training as an infant mental health specialist, and works widely with multi-disciplinary teams supporting children with developmental or emotional delays. She is a faculty member of the Early Intervention Training Institute (EITI) of the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic. She is a senior faculty member and Mental Health Working Group Co-Chair of the Profectum Foundation. Dr. Delahooke also provides training to personnel in the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the Westside Infant Family Network. Currently in private practice in Arcadia, California, she consults with parents, preschools, regional centers and school districts in the areas of developmental screening, assessment and intervention for children and their families.

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.

Dr. Hutman is a clinical and developmental psychologist and assistant professor in Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He specializes in autism, social-emotional development, and social cognitive development. He received bachelor and master’s degrees in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University. He received his doctorate in psychology from UCLA. Dr. Hutman is an investigator for the longitudinal study of infant siblings of children with autism, part of the NIH-funded Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) at UCLA. This research integrates behavioral, eye-tracking, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and genetic methodologies to characterize autism during infancy and, thereby, to improve efforts to screen infants for autism. He is the recipient of a prestigious career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Hutman’s research has also been supported by the Friends of the Semel Institute; the Mattel Children’s Foundation; the FPR/UCLA Center for Culture, Brain & Development; the UCLA Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center; the UCLA Clinical & Translational Science Institute; and the UCLA Center for Autism Research & Treatment.