Short Biography:
      I have cerebral palsy with a severe speech impairment. I am 75 years old and live in a retirement community after working for twenty years as a psychologist in state institutions in Pennsylvania and Iowa. I have also worked as a vocational counselor in a Milwaukee workshop, and as a team and research psychologist in institutions for retarded persons. I now want to use my Ph.D. in counseling psychology, to continue to help other people with disabilities.

      A motorized wheelchair gets me around. It even takes me downtown, to church, and to shop. My book, Journey Into Personhood, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 1994, and details my memoirs of the challenges life has brought me as a person with cerebral palsy.

      My very supportive parents encouraged me to get my education and to start a career which brought many difficulties as well as triumphs. My life-long struggle against adverse attitudes towards the handicapped has given me a great interest in doing something to educate the public about disabled people. I am now writing short stories. I hope to explain the reasons for our differences and so decrease prejudices about disabled persons.

      Jesus Christ as a living person means a lot to me. I feel that he has given me many wonderful people, who came into my life at the right time and in the right way. My struggles to be a person are by no means over, but whenever I reflect on my life, I am very blessed by God.

Credentials:
A.B. Cum Laude in Psychology, Drew University, 1948.
            Doctor of Humane Letters (Drew University, 1978).
            Phi Beta Kappa (Drew University, 1982).
M.A. (Ed.) in Clinical Psychology, Special Education, Syracuse University, 1949.
Ph.D. (Ed.) in Counseling and Guidance, University of Illinios, 1963.

Career History:
1954.  Psychological Consultant, Swarthmore Presbyterian Nursery School,
Swarthmore, PA.

1963.  Counseling Psychologist, Rehabilitation Institute of the Jewish Vocational Service, Milwaukee, WI.  Adjustment Counseling and Job Placement for retarded, and physically handicapped adults.

1966.  Research Psychologist, Hamburg State School and Hospital, Hamburg, PA.  Research with profoundly retarded individuals of all ages.

1967.  Team, School, Developmental Psychologist, Glenwood State School and Hospital, Glenwood, IA.  Testing, Counseling, Developing, and Directing Sensory-Motor Training for all ranges of retardation.

Publications:
The Portrait of a Group of Adults with Cerebral Palsy. General Palsy Review, July-August, 1956.

The Adaptations of Perceptual-Motor Training in Program to the Profoundly Retarded. Chapter in book: Some Educational Implications of Movement, B. J. Cratty, Special Child, Seattle, 1970.

Adaptations of Sensory-Motor Training Techniques to the Profoundly Retarded. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, September, 1969.

Is Movement Necessary for the Development of Cognition? Mental Retardation, August, 1971.

Effects of Sensory-Motor Training on Intellectual and Adaptive Skills of Profoundly Retarded Adults. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1979.

Can Adaptive and Cognitive Behavior Really be Increased by Sensory-Motor Training? Advance in Mental Research, 1983.

Journey Into Personhood. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1994.

Recent Writings:
Short Stories about disabled people.

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