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Featured Speaker: Ellen Yack, Occupational Therapist |
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Ellen Yack has practiced as an occupational therapist since 1979 and has a Masters Degree in Education. She currently is the Director of Ellen Yack and Associates Paediatric Occupational Therapy Services, a private agency providing occupational therapy services to children, adolescents and their families in Toronto and surrounding areas. Ellen is also the occupational therapy consultant at the Geneva Centre for Autism. Her areas of expertise include sensory integration, autism spectrum disorders, developmental coordination disorder and learning disabilities. Ellen has been a lecturer at the University of Toronto, conducts a variety of workshops and presentations and has published in her field. She is one of the co-authors of the book Building Bridges through Sensory Integration: Occupational Therapy for Children with Autism and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders that was published in 1998. She is also a contributor to the recently released book Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome.
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