| GET ABLE exists to provide HANDLE therapy in southern California. Therefore the prerequisite for any clinician, regardless of previous professional roles, is a certificate from The HANDLE Institute attesting to the person's having completed all requirements for the competence- based credential as a Certified HANDLE Practitioner . Additionally, GET ABLE requires each Practitioner to maintain on-going affiliation with the Institute. An Intern intending to comply with the standards established for that certification may live in southern California. If so, GET ABLE will arrange supervised experience appropriate to the level of competence of that Intern. Therefore, a client may anticipate that a HANDLE Intern will participate in aspects of or all of a clinic visit. If for some reason a client insists that no intern participate, that will be honored. |
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GET ABLE
| GET ABLE Practitioners |
Providing HANDLE® programs in Southern California
| Marlene Suliteanu, OTR/L, Certified HANDLE Practitioner |
| The only Certified HANDLE Practitioner in southern California. |
| The first Certified HANDLE Instructor outside the United Kingdom and South Africa. Resume Clinical experience as an occupational therapist with all ages and virtually all diagnostic categories, in a wide variety of treatment settings (acute hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home health agencies, nursing homes, adolescent residential psychiatric facility) Completed HANDLE certification requirements to practice: June, 2001 Completed HANDLE certification requirements as an instructor: November, 2003 Graduate of Ohio State University, 1963. Extensive and comprehensive continuing education coursework, ranging from diagnostic categories, to managment, to legislative issues, to writing: at least 1 course per year (often many more) Personal: married, mother of 2 adult children Public speaking and teaching roles: - generic and focused presentations to groups interested in HANDLE - "Behavior as Communication" at the January '04 Preschool Directors' Workshop and Wellness Symposium, for San Diego County - "Get a HANDLE on Neurodevelopmental Disorders," the introductory course of The HANDLE Institute, November '03 in San Marcos, CA - staff training and in-service education programs with each prior employer; created evaluation and/or documentation forms in most job settings - co-presenter at the 2001 International CHARGE Syndrome Foundation Conference, break-out session - fund-raising and community relations for Easter Seals: multiple contexts "Adapting ADLs" for Multiple Sclerosis Society (a recurring program, in the Oakland, CA area) - instructor at Cuyahoga Community College (OTA curriculum): 1 term plus assorted others Publications: - "Outcomes Are in the Eye of the Beholder," in August 2001 ADVANCE for OT, and (same article, re-titled) "Applied Neuroscience" in August 2001 ADVANCE for Speech Therapy - "Autism Turned Inside Out" in July 2002 Autism/Asperger's Digest - "Mental Rehearsal: Outsmarting the Disability," co-authored with Shirley Kokot, DEd, accepted for publication by Exceptional Parent Magazine - (in pre-publication process) 2 chapters regarding HANDLE for a book addressing ADD/ADHD |
