Consulting Clinical Psychologist, New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD); Clinical Co- Director, New York City Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) Gilbert M. Foley, EdD, IMH-E® serves as Consulting Clinical Psychologist at the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD) in New York City and Clinical Co- Director of the New York City Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC). He is Endorsed as an Infant Mental Health/ Clinical Mentor, Level IV and is a founding board member of the New York and Pennsylvania State Associations of Infant Mental Health. He is a senior faculty member of the DIR® Profectum Academy and core faculty member of the Psychodynamic Institute for Clinical Social work (Chicago). Dr Foley is a retired Associate Professor (tenured) of the School-Clinical Child Psychology Doctoral Program at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Director Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Infant Mental Health and Developmental Practice at Adelphi University. He served as Visiting Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center and was Director of Psychology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Foley is the co-author of four books and has written over 50 scholarly articles and chapters. Linking Sensory Integration and Mental Health: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Infants and Young Children has just been published by National Zero to Three. Dr. Foley lectures widely nationally and internationally.

Dr. Susan Stallings-Sahler is an Occupational Therapist with over 40 years of experience evaluating and treating infants, children, and adolescents with developmental and sensory processing disorders, as well as sharing her knowledge and skills through academic and clinical teaching both nationally and internationally. She has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in pediatric, neuroscience, sensory integration, and research methods courses. Dr. Sahler earned the BS in Occupational Therapy from the University of Florida, the MS in Pediatric Occupational Therapy from Boston University, and the PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also had the privilege of studying sensory integration theory and practice with the late A. Jean Ayres, the founder of sensory integration at her clinic in Torrance, CA. Dr. Sahler is certified in Sensory Integration (SI) Evaluation and Treatment, Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT), and Advanced Neurodevelopmental Treatment of the Infant. Her research is in the area of standardized instrument development, and she is the author of the Screening Assessment of Sensory Integration (SASI) being published by Academic Therapy Publications. She is most recently the primary author of Linking Sensory Integration and Mental Health: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Infants and Young Children (2022) published by Zero to Three, Washington DC.