Christopher R. Auer, MA, is employed in the Mayor’s Office for Education and Children as the disabilities and mental health administrator for Denver’s Great Kids Head Start. He is a board member of the Foundation for Knowledge in Development (KID Foundation), founded by Lucy Jane Miller, and was appointed by the governor of Colorado to the Colorado Interagency Coordinating Council, which oversees disability services to children birth to three throughout the state. He holds licensure as a director of special education and is the parent of three children, one of whom is diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sensory processing disorder.
Susan L. Blumberg, PhD, is coauthor of six books, including
Fighting for Your Marriage and
Twelve Hours to a Great Marriage. She has more than twenty years’ experience as a family advocate for families with children with special needs, helping families navigate through the system to obtain services and supports. She has been a member of the board of directors for Denver Early Childhood Connections, the Part C agency for Denver, since 1997 and served as president or vice president for five years.
Blumberg received her doctorate in child clinical psychology from the University of Denver in 1991 and is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is also the parent of two children, one of whom is diagnosed with nonverbal learning disability and sensory processing disorder.
Foreword writer Lucy Jane Miller, PhD, OTR, is associate clinical professor at the University of Colorado Medical School and founder and director of KID Foundation—the only full-time SPD research program in the world—and the Sensory Therapies and Research (STAR) Center for children and adults. She is author of Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder.
