Allison Smith Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, California

San Francisco Bay Area

Salinas, California Area

Primary occupational therapist in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), providing feeding and developmental interventions to infants born preterm and infants who are medically fragile. I provide therapy and nursing staff education on cue-based feeding, developmental care, therapeutic handling and positioning, and documentation. I have spearheaded innovative interdisciplinary quality improvement projects for early mobilization in the PICU and development of developmental education for new parents for the prevention of developmental delays.

Outpatient occupational therapy in a sensory gym setting with infants through teenagers. Diagnoses included autism, cerebral palsy, developmental delay, cri du chat, and digeorge syndrome.

Acute care occupational therapist with infants through teenagers with a variety of surgical and medical needs, including neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, oncology, organ transplants, and chronic pain. Became competent in bedside dysphagia and feeding evaluations and treatment. Worked towards competency in videofluoroscopic swallow studies.

Provided early intervention occupational therapy in family's homes following an IFSP for infants and toddlers.

Provided school based and sensory clinic based occupational therapy services.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Pediatric Science

Knowledge on quantitative and qualitative research methods, biostatistics, evidence based practice, epidemiology, and grant writing..

Ms, Occupational Therapy

Activities and Societies: Pi Theta Epsilon

Bs, Neurobiology, Physiology, And Behavior