Serena Wieder

Serena Wieder is the Clincal Director of the Profectum Foundation and Founder and past Co-Chair, of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL). She founded and directed the DIR® Institute, a case based competency training program for multidisciplinary professionals, from 1999-2010. Dr. Wieder serves on the Board of Zero to Three – the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families and the Scientific Advisory Boards of First Signs. Dr. Wieder conducts national and international training on the DIR® Floortime Model, She has served as faculty in multiple training programs. Her research has focused on diagnostic classification, emotional and symbolic development and the long term follow up of children treated with DIR®. Dr. Wieder co-authored Engaging Autism, The Child with Special Needs, and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, with Stanley Greenspan; co-chaired the ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children and the first edition of theZero to Three Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy. She is co-author of a book with Dr. Harry Wachs, Visual Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling, and Movement: Challenges in Autism and Learning Difficulties. Dr. Wieder practices in New York City.