Smart Kids Professional Advisory Board

Susan Baum, Ph.D.

Professor of Education, College of New Rochelle

Candace Cortiella

Director, The Advocacy Institute

Miriam Cherkes-Julkowski, Ph.D.

Educational Consultant and Diagnostician

Peg Dawson, Ed.D.

Center for Learning & Attention Disorders

Past President, National Association of School Psychologists

Marcia Eckerd, Ph.D.

Evaluator and Therapist, Associates for Children & Families

Judy Grossman, DrPH, OTR

Family Therapist
Associate Director, Center for the Developing Child & Family, Ackerman Institute for the Family

Elizabeth Hall

Educational Therapist

Jill Harkavy-Friedman, Ph.D.

New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University

Clinical psychologist in private practice

Noreen O’Mahoney, C.S.W., S.D.A.

Director, Collaborative Advocacy Associates

Lisa N. Rappaport, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Marcia Brown Rubinstien, M.A., C.E.P.

Educational Consultant; founder, Nonverbal Learning Disorders Association

Kristen Viesselman

Director, Lindamood-Bell Learning Center, Darien, CT