LINDA GREY TIRELLA OTD

Pediatric occupational therapist with over forty years of successful experience in assessment and treatment of children from diverse backgrounds. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in the field of pediatrics. Strengths in assessing sensory processing needs and social emotional challenges backed by training in occupational therapy.

• Integration Problems and Solutions to discuss how sensory integration is involved in a child’s development and what can parents, teacher, and therapist do to encourage typical development.
• March, 2003 Guest Lecturer at the Winchester Cooperative Nursery School Winchester, MA.
• Annual Corporation meeting.
• Presented to Board members and parents on Sensory Processing Issues in Young Children and Strategies To Use in the Early Childhood Setting to help them understand Sensory Integration dysfunction in preschool children.
• February, 2003 Guest Lecturer at the Winchester Cooperative Nursery School Winchester, MA.
• Sensory Processing Issues in Young Children and Strategies To Use in the Early Childhood Setting.
• Designed and presented a lecture to preschool teachers to help them understand the needs of children with sensory disorders and how staff can address these needs in a playful environment.
• January, 2003 Presented to the hospital staff of Proger 6 the Child Psychiatric Unit at NEMC on Sensory integration dysfunction and suggestions for therapeutic interventions.
• Nov., 2002 Guest Lecturer at the Under Graduate Education program at Boston College.
• Spoke on developmental delays and concerns of the post-institutional adopted child, evaluation and treatment for children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities October, 2002 Presenter to parents of the Open Door Society of New Hampshire on sensory integration dysfunction in the post-adoptive child.
• April, 2002 Presenter on professional day for the Open Door Society of Massachusetts on sensory integration dysfunction in the post-adoptive child.
• Presenter to parents of the Open Door Society on sensory integration dysfunction in the post-adopted child and on oral motor dysfunction.
• April, 2002 Speaker at the Joint Council for International Children’s Services in Washington D.C.
• On recent research findings on The Educational Issues in the Post- Institutionalized 8-12 year-olds from Eastern Europe October, 2001 Guest Lecturer at the Anne Sullivan Early Intervention Center, in Lowell,Ma, on the development of the internationally adopted child.
• April, 2000 Guest Lecturer at the Winchester Cooperative Nursery School Winchester, Ma.
• Sensory Processing Issues in Young Children and Strategies To Use in the Early Childhood Setting.
• Designed and presented a lecture to preschool teachers to help them understand the needs of children with sensory disorders and how staff can address these needs in a playful environment.
• April, 1998 Seminar Series on the effectiveness of Occupational Therapy in the Burlington Public School System.
• Prepared and delivered a seminar on useful therapeutic interventions which are used in Occupational Therapy in a school system.
• Also presented classroom strategies and adaptations, which could be used for greater success in the classroom with fine motor skills, attentiveness, and behavioral issues.
• February, 1991 Guest Lecturer at the Graduate Program in Special Education at Boston College.
• Spoke on the evaluation and treatment of Oral Motor and Feeding Issues for children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.

SIPT Certification # 2238