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Faculty:
Sharon Ray
 Sharon
Ray, Sc.D., OTR/L
Boston University, Sargent College
University of Pennsylvania
Lecturer
Dr. Ray teaches courses in evaluation and treatment principles in pediatrics,
kinesiology, and school-based practice. She has extensive clinical experience
working with children and their families in both early intervention and
school-based settings. She consults to occupational therapists in various
pediatric practice areas. Her research involves examining the interactions that
occur between mothers and their young children with a focus on their
relationship to the child's engagement in activity. She is a member of the
administrative board for the Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and
Parents, Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Healthy Families Initiative, and
the University Partnership of Infant and Parent Professionals.
She is particularly interested in supporting best practice for school-based
therapists. In addition to having extensive experience working in the public
schools, she is one of the writers of the Massachusetts Guidelines for
School-Based Practice. She has presented workshops and trainings to occupational
therapists and related service providers concerning practice in the public
school. She also has a textbook in process: School-Based Practice: Enabling
Participation.
She is a founding member of the Homelessness Research Network, a group that is
working to establish a national research and practice agenda for occupational
therapists working with adults, children, and families experiencing
homelessness. Her research involves supporting participation of young children
living in transitional housing.
Paying attention to the needs of children and their families, Dr. Sharon Ray is instrumental in
the development and teaching of a co-institutional course. As a national expert
on occupational therapy in the schools and parent-child relationships, she
brings experts from other institutions together to help infant and toddlers.
Read the full article entitled,
"Partners for Kids: Tufts Joins other Institutions to Help Infants and
Toddlers." She is a school advocate for the parents and a co-moderator
of the children's support page of the Uveitis Support Group at
www.uveitis.org. Also learn about Dr. Ray's travel
to Honduras to help children (PDF).
Learn more about
Dr. Ray.
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