| Sallie Sanborn, MS |
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| Sallie Sanborn, MS, has been in private practice for the last eighteen years, specializing in issues of illness, injury, and loss. She was a Child Life Specialist( the psychosocial care of children in medical settings) at Bellevue Hospital for nine years, coordinating the Child Life program for the medical inpatient 6-12 year olds and training medical staff on the developmental responses of children to hospitalization and treatment procedures. She was an adjunct professor at Bank Street College of Education for 12 years where she taught the graduate courses in Child Life and assisted in the development of the Child Life Master's Degree Program. Sallie also received her Master's Degree in Counseling and Human Development from Bank Street in 1982.
Sallie is part of the On-Going Care Team of the Making Headway Foundation, which provides services for children and families affected by brain and spinal cord tumors. She consults with schools and agencies and has given numerous talks and workshops on a wide array of issues including children and loss. She has co-written a chapter on the trauma of hospitalization for the book, Play Therapy for Children and Crisis, edited by Nancy Boyd-Webb, and most recently was featured in and wrote the afterword and resource guide for, The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss and Learning to Tell the Truth About It, by Patty Dann.
Sallie can be reached as follows:
146 W. 95th, NYC, 10025
Ph: 212-663-6390
salsanborn@gmail.com
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