Dawn is a board-certified, licensed Occupational Therapist who earned her degree in Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 1997. She specializes in pediatrics and sensory-motor applications for functional outcomes. Dawn has experience working in public schools, private home-based therapy, pediatric home healthcare, private clinic-based therapy, and presenting to preschools, school staff, and other therapists. She also works as the lead OT on an Autism Assessment Team and has extensive experience in working with both children and adults with ASD.
Dawn’s scope of practice includes sensory processing, primitive reflexes, interoception, and Autism/ASD. She is trained in Beckman Oral Motor protocol, Handwriting Without Tears, How does your Engine Run?/The Alert Program, The Therapeutic Listening Program, Benbow Fine Motor Assessment, and Digital Addiction. Additional education and experience includes the following areas: fine motor skills, visual motor skills, feeding and swallowing, pre-natal and infant treatment, BPPV, NDT, handwriting, postural support, assistive technology, behavioral intervention, vision, team play assessments, learning disabilities, ADHD, breath support, trach/vent care, auscultation, Brain Gym and brain-based learning, acute care, teletherapy, torticollis, neurochemistry, trauma, emotional regulation, neurotransmitters and adaptive equipment evaluations.
Dawn has been an ACE-certified group fitness instructor since 1999 and currently specializes in yoga. She is also ACE-certified as a fitness nutrition specialist and functional movement specialist.
She has a passion for working with children and their families to help not only the children reach their fullest potential but also to help the families support their children and live the best quality of life. When she is not working, she enjoys doing yoga, eating chocolate, and spending time with her husband and two teenagers.
