Graduated and certified in the department of occupational therapy, certified in early childhood education and development and doctorate in counseling and human development from the University of Haifa. Has 22 years of experience in the developmental field. Instructor in the field of Autism ASD, developmental delay and delay, intellectual disability, learning disability, multi-professional team work. Lecturer in the multidisciplinary program for an accredited degree in early childhood education and development - University of Haifa on play and playfulness in early childhood, lecturer in the special education department and in the preschool department at Sakhnin College on the topics: motor and sensorimotor development. Advises and accompanies occupational therapists who establish a private clinic/ initiate personal projects such as creating developmental tribunals (for parents and children)/ managing developmental units/ leading and concentrating the work of a multi-professional team. Initiatives: Establishes an OTSC center (the Center for the Training of Occupational Therapists) in Sakhnin. Construction and transmission of early detection and intervention programs from birth to 7 years, built courses and workshops for training professionals and parents on topics such as transmission and coding of diagnoses, work skills in the children's field, play and playfulness and child development, skills in working with children on the ASD continuum. Activity in social networks - co-managing a Facebook Arab occupational therapists forum - Arab occupational therapy specialists, establishes and manages a Facebook page for developmental advice called SprinTips - quick developmental tips. Conferences: a partner in organizing various conferences, including the conference of the Arab occupational therapists of the Israeli Association for Occupational Therapy - on the characteristics of Arabic handwriting (2014). I participated in national and international conferences in the early childhood field. In September 2017, I was selected by the Israeli Association for Occupational Therapists as one of the most influential occupational therapists in the country.

What I convey:

Courses.

Work skills in the field of children.

Play and playfulness and child development.

. ASD skills in working with children on the continuum

workshops.

How to build a preparation group for first grade.

Writing difficulties: detection, diagnosis and intervention.

Visual perception difficulties: detection, diagnosis and intervention.

Pencil, beads and scissors: intra-manual manipulations.