Barbara Kalmanson

  • Barbara Kalmanson, PhD
  • Barbara is a clinical psychologist, a special educator, and an infant mental health specialist, including work with the Infant-Parent Program at the University of California in San Francisco.

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    Barbara Kalmanson has over 30 years experience working with infants, children and their families, as well as with schools and agencies serving children environmentally and developmentally at risk. She is a founder of the Oak Hill School in San Anselmo, California, a developmental, relationship-based school for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum and related neurodevelopmental disorders. She provides interdisciplinary consultation to schools and agencies nationwide and internationally.She teaches infant mental health at the Stella Maris Institute, the neuropsychiatric institute of the University of Pisa medical school and is the Academic Dean of the ICDL Graduate School, and senior faculty and training coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Council on Learning & Developmental Disorders (ICDL).   Recent publications include: Echoes in the Nursery: Insights for the Treatment of Early Signs of Autism in a Baby Sibling, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, vol. 8, no.1,2009, and Autism Assessment and Intervention: the developmental individual difference, relationship-based DIR/Floortime model, with Serena Wieder and Stanley Greenspan,Zero to Three, March 2008.