Barrie Galvin OTR/L President

Barrie G. Galvin is a certified and licensed Occupational Therapist. Over a 38 year period, Barrie established and built a state of the art practice providing an average of over 160 + families with therapy visits per week.

She has extensive continuing education and specialty certifications in sensory integration, infant massage, Interactive Metronome, therapeutic listening interventions, behavioral and Floor-Time (DIR)tm model interventions. Barrie and her staff are experienced in administering multiple standardized assessments including the Sensory Integration Praxis Test, current infant and early childhood developmental assessments, multiple motor skills and perceptual assessments, social skills and coping inventories and sensory profiles and indexes of parent stress.

Experienced leadership:
Barrie served as President of the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association, Interim Director and Clinical supervisor for the Occupational Therapy Program at Cleveland State University and was been awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Ohio Occupational Therapy Assoc. Employment experience, in addition to private practice includes: Research assistant – Cleveland State Hospital Federally Funded Daycare Project; initiated and/or expanded occupational therapy programs in multiple school systems including Mayfield Hts. and Beachwood and has been a consultant to Jewish Family Services Association and Great Lakes Residential Services.

Other Professional Awards include:
• Certificate of Appreciation for extraordinary contributions to the advancement of Occupational Therapy in the State of Ohio
• Award of Merit, Ohio Occupation Therapy Association, Inc. for outstanding leadership and distinguished contributions to the development and practice of occupational therapy in the State of Ohio.

Recent Lecture and Workshop Topic Presentations include:
• Avanti Summit advanced therapist Review & Presentations
• ATTACH Conference on Attachment and Bonding
• Ohio State University College of Optometry, Children’s Learning Forum
• Showcase of Services for Children w/ Autism Spectrum Disorders –Cuyahoga City Special Services Ctr.
• Merging Methods – Greater Akron Autism Society
• Sensory Integration – University Hospitals Hanna Pavilion – psychiatric residents
• Autism and PDD - University Hospitals Hanna Pavilion and Akron Autism Society
• Interactive Metronome – The Galvin Education & Resource Center, OOTA, Stark County MRDD
• Developing Hand Function
• Therapeutic Listening
• Autism Spectrum Disorders – Cuyahoga Special Education Service Center
• State-of-the-art OT Interventions
• Floor-Time (DIR)
• Regulatory Disorders

The Barrie G. Galvin, OTR/L & Associates, Ltd office is unique in Northeast Ohio. This state-of-the art pediatric therapy private practice, in Beachwood, was established in 1994 following 30 years of continuous therapy services in private practice, schools and mental health facilities.

My clinical staff (7) and I are willing and able to provide for children with both complex physical and emotional disorders.

This clinic provides extensive on-going continuing education for our staff. Our staff includes: occupational therapy and speech/language therapists. Clinical and neuropsychology, infant/child psychiatry, music therapy, behavioral optometry, nutrition and expressive therapies (music and art) are consultants.

This therapy clinic is a fieldwork training site for seven universities.

We are dedicated to pursuing outcome research, and have participated in national and locally funded projects.

Therapists integrate home-based, school and in-clinic goals, parenting skills, maternal mental health, social skills and sibling issues.

Our theoretical model focuses on applying current science and research to intervention models assisting families and children through psychosocial, developmental therapies, family support and advocacy.