About

Gil Tippy, PsyD has lived and worked on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, for the last 30 years. A 1979 graduate of Cornell University, he was a teacher of kids and young adults, typically developing and with developmental delays, for the first half of his career, He retuned to school, graduating from Columbia University with a Masters Degree in Developmental Psychology, and Long Island University/CW Post with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. He continued as an adjunct Professor at Long Island University, supervising future teachers in the development of children, and has had the chance to see and critique programs across Long Island and New York City in that role. For the last five years he has been directly involved with creating and running the Rebecca School in Manhattan, the world’s largest school for children with neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating, using the Developmental, Individual Differerence, Relationship-based (DIR) Model. He is the recent co-author, with Dr. Stanley Greenspan, of Case Studies in the DIR/Floortime Model in the School Setting: The Rebecca School Casebook for Parents and Professionals. Contact Gil through his website at http://www.nyautismservices.com NY Autism Services