Acknowledgements

I’m grateful to Linda Jackson and her publishing staff at PESI—Karsyn Morse, Hillary Jenness, and Amy Rubenzer.

Many people graciously helped to coordinate the photo shoots: Jana Ripaska, MS, OTR, and Dean Jennifer Hoppesch at Plymouth Scholars in Plymouth, Michigan; Stephanie Naberhaus, Joanie Davidson Forfinski, and Janice Pagano at Building Bridges Therapy Center; and the staff at PROCAM in Livonia, Michigan. Sarah Grosjean assisted with the studio photo shoot.

Many children patiently and generously posed for photos: Devin Allen, Ethan Ayers, Ava Azzouz, Aidan Brown, Bradley Caloia, Christopher Caloia, Alijah Door, Adam Funk, Liam Gibbons, Daniel Grosjean, Faith Grosjean, Lawrence Grosjean, Noah Hansen, Sean Harvey, Dylan Heasley, Jacob Heintzleman, Luke Humphreys, Amelia Kumor, Max Kumor, Victoria Maes, Justin Marcarian, Grace Murdock, Halaya Reynolds, Stephan Russo, Isaac Schmitt, Lily Stewart, Max Stewart, and Kaylin Valli.

Building Bridges Therapy Center in Plymouth granted me generous access to facilities, staff and clients for the photo shoots. Therapists there generously gave of their time and creativity: Candace Edwards, MS, OTR; Jana Repaska, MS, OTR; Ann Moro-Hill, MS, OTR; and Jean Walsh, SLP-CCC. Jean also advised me on speech-and-language related activities for the mix-ins chapter and generously shared materials including a list of read-aloud children’s books.

Thanks to readers Sheryl Ryan, PhD, OTR/L, Joshua Brown, DOT, OTR/L, Candace Edwards, MS, OTR/L and Jana Ripaska, MS, OTR/L. A special thanks to Stephanie Ramser, OTR, for her help with the material in Chapter 2, Jana Repaska who inspired the sensory-immersion chapters, and Sarah Repasky for helping me locate recipes, instructions and materials, and for her encouragement along the way.

Two researchers were incredibly generous in allowing me to use their work: Dr. Michael Leon gave permission to run with the Environmental Enrichment protocol and Jasmine Ma gave permission to use her FUNtervals routines.

Last but not least, thanks to my husband, Peter Michaelson, for his loving support throughout the writing process.