WHAT'S HAPPENING
EP MAGAZINE APPOINTS DR. STEVE PERLMAN AS SENIOR EDITOR FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS
THE DOCTOR IS IN: Dr. Perlman has dedicated his career helping those with ID receive access to health care.
It's appropriate that EP Magazine has named Steve Perlman, DDS as the Senior Editor for Special Projects. Appropriate because the term "Special" is part of Dr. Perlman's DNA. Steve was the founder of the Healthy Athletes Program at Special Olympics.
Dr. Perlman has been instrumental in practicing, promoting and perfecting "special" care dentistry for five decades. He has mentored thousands of dental students by exposing them to the "special" rewards that comes with treating people with "special" healthcare needs. A longtime member of EP Magazine's Editorial Advisory Board, Steve has played a vital part in helping the magazine to become the nation's most respected resource for the disability community.
In his new role as Senior Editor for Special Projects Dr. Perlman will be responsible for identifying evolving topics in healthcare, recruiting national experts, creating single subject monographs, creating webinars, and serving as our liaison to national healthcare, advocacy and support organizations. He is skilled in bringing together opinion leaders, communicating with global notables in intellectual and developmental disabilities, and is admired and respected by individuals with disabilities, academia, industry, families, clinicians and policy makers. While he has "retired" from active clinical practice, his seven-day-a-week schedule would have you thinking otherwise. Welcome Dr. Perlman. For EP Magazine, it's the ultimate 50th Anniversary gift to ourselves and our readers.
– Rick Rader, MD, Editor in Chief, EP Magazine
BRIDGING HEALTH DISPARITIES : CATCHING UP WITH DR. STEVE PERLMAN
THE WHOLE WORLD SMILES: Dr. Perlman created Special Olympics Special Smiles to provide free dental screenings for Special Olympics athletes. Today, this is one of eight disciplines offered by Special Olympics Healthy Athletes, a program that offers free health screenings to Special Olympics athletes worldwide.
Dr. Steven Perlman is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine. For the over 45 years, he has devoted much of his private practice, as well as his teaching, to the treatment of children and adults with physical and intellectual disabilities. He is the founder of the Healthy Athlete program for Special Olympics and co-founder of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry. He is the recipient of many National and International Humanitarian and other awards related to his work in advocacy, policy and education.
A past president of the Academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities, the Massachusetts Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, and the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry (AADMD), Dr. Perlman is also a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities, and the American College of Dentists, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry. He is cofounder and past president of the AADMD, and in 2005 and 2006, he served as an advisor to the President's Committee for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. In 1993, Dr. Perlman founded Special Olympics Special Smiles, an oral health initiative for the athletes of Special Olympics International. It now has over 200 events each year, taking place in every state in the United States and in over 100 countries. He currently serves as their Senior Global Clinical Advisor. In 2008, in Shanghai, China, Special Olympics honored Dr. Perlman with a special Lifetime Global Leadership Award in promoting human dignity. He was the first dentist in Massachusetts to receive the Exceptional Physician Award. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and the first graduate in the history of the Dental School to also be recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of Boston University.
NEW BOOK ON NAVIGATING AUTISM FROM TEMPLE GRANDIN AND DEBRA MOORE
Norton Mental Health announces the September 21 publication of Temple Grandin and Debra Moore's "Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum."
Dr. Grandin shares personal experiences and anecdotes from the thousands of parents and professionals who have sought her advice, while Dr. Moore draws on more than three decades of work as a psychologist with kids on the spectrum and those who love and care for them. This book will help mental health clinicians, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, parents, and anyone interacting with children or teens in the spectrum broaden their outlook and come away with new, empowering mindsets they can apply to develop the full potential of every child.
Temple Grandin, PhD, is an internationally best-selling author, and Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. In 2020 she was honored as a Top Ten College Professor in America. In 2010, Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, named her in the "Heroes" category.
Debra Moore, PhD, is a psychologist who has worked extensively with children, teens, and adults on the autism spectrum. She was the Founder and Director of Fall Creek Counseling Associates. She devotes her time to volunteering and writing. This is her second project with Dr. Grandin, coauthoring The Loving Push: How Parents and Professionals Can Help Spectrum Kids Become Successful Adults in 2016. •
Title: Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum
Author: by Temple Grandin with Debra Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: September 2021
Paperback: 384 pages ISBN-13: 978-0393714845
Available at: amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com