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Mary Beth Kadlec, ScD, OTR/L
Boston University, Lecturer

Dr. Kadlec will be teaching courses as part-time lecturer. She has practiced occupational therapy for 25 years with a focus on young children and their families receiving services through early intervention, early childhood education, and outpatient rehabilitation programs. Currently, she is the Project Manager for the Child and Family Project which is part of the STAART (Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment) Center at Boston University School of Medicine. The Child and Family Project is a longitudinal study of more than 200 toddlers with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) which is examining the symptoms and the developmental patterns of young children with ASD as well as family well-being and parental coping. Mary Beths interest in research is to better understand the process by which children are guided to participate within their family routines, educational settings, and community activities in order to inform clinical practice. She has developed methodologies to identify qualitative and quantitative aspects of parent-child interactions during daily activities which has been used with parents and their young children born very low birthweight with and without white matter disease as well as parents and their children with ASD. She received her MS in OT and ScD in Therapeutic Studies from Boston University

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