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Gretchen Clark,
Owner, CEO
gretchen@kidsplaytherapy.com
Gretchen Clark received her Bachelors Degree in Human Development and Family Studies with an emphasis in Child Life at Mississippi State University. She received a Master of Occupational Therapy in 2000 from Nova Southeastern University , in Ft. Lauderdale , Florida. While at Nova, Gretchen became actively involved as an Occupational Therapy Assistant in a pilot school for children with autism. After graduating, Gretchen worked as a pediatric occupational therapist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and also began her own home health agency, A Helping Hand Pediatric Therapy.
Gretchen loves working both with the children and their families. She serves primarily in an administration role at this time and loves being able to develop new programs that will benefit the children and their families. She has always loved the field of pediatrics and feels it is her life mission to work with children and families. Gretchen is married with
one son and one daughter. Outside of Kidsplay, Gretchen enjoys spending time with her family and friends, attending Church, and playing tennis. |
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Marlene Eidson,
Chief Operating Officer
marlene@kidsplaytherapy.com
Marlene has over 20 years of accounting experience. She has been with Kidsplay since February 2004. Before then she spent four years with a Lawrenceville CPA firm. She has worked with the State of Georgia and Dekalb County and was also an election poll manager, which was a very enjoyable experience. In the middle of Marlene’s career, she took 15 years away from full-time work to raise her two sons. During those years she taught 4 year old preschool at her church, and thoroughly loved every minute of it. Here at Kidsplay, she is happy to be able to combine her love of children and accounting into one job!
Marlene has been married to a wonderful husband for over 36 years and has two grown sons. In her spare time, Marlene enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading and traveling. She and her husband love to go antiquing! She is very happy to be working with all the wonderful people here at Kidsplay and thanks God for bringing her here.
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Judy Camp,
Prior Approval Coordinator
judy@kidsplaytherapy.com
Judy is our Prior Approval Coordinator. She is a native Atlantan. She and her husband of 44 years live in Loganville, Georgia. They have a daughter who lives in North Carolina and a daughter and son-in-law who live in Duluth.
She and her husband love spending time with their families, dining out, and the outdoors. They are active members in their church and Judy is involved in the Ministry Village supporting foster children in Walton County.
Judy worked in accounting with Associated Distributors for six years. After taking time off to be home with her daughters, she returned to work teaching preschool at a local church for 10 years. She then began working in the Gwinnett County School system teaching children with autism K-5th grade and also special needs preschool.
She is very blessed to be a part of such a special team of people here at Kidsplay, who love working with children.
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Kimberly Hanberry,
Client Coordinator
kimberly@kidsplaytherapy.com
Kimberly has nearly 20 years of experience in working with children, their needs and their family’s. She majored in Special Education at Southwest Missouri University. She taught school for 17 years in the private school sector, ranging from kindergarten through eighth grade, prior to coming with Kidsplay Therapy. For nine years, Kimberly worked with a local church in their special needs ministry, working with both children and adults. At Kidsplay Therapy, she serves as the Client Coordinator.
Kimberly has been married for 27 years and they reside in the Grayson area. They have two sons in college, one completing his graduate degree and one his undergraduate degree. Kimberly enjoys spending time with her husband and her boys when they come home to see her. She loves working in her flower garden. She is very involved in her church.
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Katharine Joyce
Occupational Therapist
katie@kidsplaytherapy.com
Katie earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Georgia and a M.S. in Occupational Therapy from Brenau University. She had the opportunity to intern at Kidsplay Therapy during the summer of 2008 where she developed valuable skills and irreplaceable relationships with the children, parents and therapists. This experience paved the way for an exciting career at Kidsplay, beginning in August of 2008.
Katie’s experience includes interning at a public school for children with emotional and behavioral disturbances, mentoring a child with attention and learning difficulties and interning at a nonprofit school for children with learning differences and sensory integration dysfunction (SID). She has utilized aquatic and hippotherapies with children who have SID, developmental issues and spectrum disorders. She also planned and led a social skills summer camp for children along the ASD spectrum during her internship at Kidsplay.
Because Katie was fortunate to experience Kidsplay since May of 2008, she has seen the children who receive services there grow and blossom into more harmonious individuals. Being able to take part in a child’s unique development by utilizing sensory integration techniques is what drew Katie to Kidsplay. She appreciates the philosophy of following the child’s lead to promote a more child-motivated environment, opening the window for learning new skills.
Outside of Kidsplay, Katie enjoys dancing, playing sports, and spending time with her husband and two daughters.
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Harrison Guilliory,
Occupational Therapist
harrison@kidsplaytherapy.com
Harrison is an Occupational Therapist who graduated from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque with a bachelor’s degree in Sign Language Interpreting in 2002 and a masters in Occupational Therapy in 2007. He has worked in outpatient clinics doing neuro and orthopedic rehabilitation and has experience in the schools with children from preschool to high school. He is also a nationally certified sign language interpreter and has experience working with children who are Deaf and hard of hearing using American Sign Language, Signed English, and gestural communication.
Harrison has experience with a variety of children through different ages and stages of development and teachs functional daily skills through play and art. He has an interest in visual processing and visual training for academic independence. Harrison also has the pleasure of accompanying a certified service dog name Rosemary one to two times per week to work with the children at KidsPlay. She provides a variety of therapeutic interventions as well as loyalty and companionship for children who have difficulties.
Harrison lives in Atlanta with his wife and 2 boys and spends weekends playing as much as possible. He enjoys hiking, juggling, Lego building, art, and writing with his family as well as taking in the sights, sounds and experiences of Atlanta and the surrounding areas.
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Kim Register Smith,
Speach Language Pathologist
kim@kidsplaytherapy.com
Kim Smith is a speech-language pathologist who received her undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Georgia in 1998. She then completed her Master’s degree in Communication Disorders at Appalachian State University in 2000. She has worked primarily with children over the past eight years. Kim enjoys working with all types of disorders, however, she has developed a strong interest and experience in working with augmentative communication systems. Kim is very active in her church through teaching Sunday School and participating in local missions work. She enjoys a variety of activities in her free time such as camping, hiking, rafting, playing games, reading, and enjoying time with friends and family. She currently resides in Loganville with her husband and two young sons. |
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Courtney Fears-Dawson,
Occupational Therapist
courtney@kidsplaytherapy.com
Courtney Fears Dawson received a Master of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Tuskegee University in 2007. Courtney’s experience includes working for the Babies’ Can’t Wait early intervention program, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta acute care program, and school-based therapy. She enjoys working with all types of disabilities, but has developed affection for the moderate intellectually disabled and autism populations. Courtney enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, participating in sporting events, and serving the community. She and her husband reside in Snellville.
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Lauren Cook
Speech-Language Pathologist
Lauren Cook received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of South Alabama. Currently, she is a certified speech-language pathologist and a member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
Lauren has worked in a variety of settings including outpatient, inpatient, and public school. She has experience in several areas of speech and language including but not limited to: articulation disorders, autism, apraxia, and various language disorders. In her free time, Lauren enjoys traveling to visit her friends and family and spending time with her husband and son. She currently resides in Conyers.
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Robyn Robinson,
OTR/L
robyn@kidsplaytherapy.com
Robyn Robinson earned a BS, in Occupational Therapy from York College, City University of NY.
She began her career working with adults, teens and children, attending the Queens Hospital Center Psychiatric Day Hospital.
She spent 12 years as a contract therapist working for the NYC public school system. She worked 7 years as school based occupational therapist for the Nassau BOCES, where she had the opportunity to design and implement an offsite district based BOCES special education program serving school aged children 5-12 with various learning, behavioral and developmental disabilities. She moved to Georgia in 2006 and has been employed by the Gwinnett County Public School System, and has worked with pre-school and school aged children throughout the GCPS with various physical, developmental, behavioral and learning disabilities.
She is currently part of the GCPS interdisciplinary assessment team responsible for evaluating, and assisting with placing special needs preschoolers in center and school based special education programs located in Gwinnett County.
Robyn is committed to staying abreast of the latest treatment techniques by attending continuing education workshops, and best practices conferences for school based OT’s. She strives to make therapy fun as well as functional and loves to see all her clients smile.
Robyn and her husband of 23 years have a teenage son and daughter. When not working, she spends time attending her daughter’s travel softball tournament games, doing community outreach activities with her church, cooking and reading.
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Lauren Breck, MS, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
laurenbreck@kidsplaytherapy.com
Lauren graduated from Brenau University in 2011 with her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy. She has worked at Kidsplay Therapy since 2009 performing various roles including Mother’s Morning Out, Summer Camp, and teaching a dance class. She is excited to be working now as a therapist and loves helping the kids excel. Along with therapy, she teaches taekwondo and is a first degree black belt.
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Dr. Tiffany Gilmore-Randell,
Psychologist
drrandell@thefirst-step.com@bellsouth.net
Dr. Tiffany Gilmore is a graduate of the Georgia School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. During her undergraduate training at the University of Alabama, her graduate training, and her doctoral internship training at the Marcus Behavior Institute, Dr. Gilmore spent a number of years working with children having various developmental problems, including autism-spectrum disorders, mental retardation, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and severe behavioral and learning difficulties.
More recently, she provided Family Training services as a contractor for the Babies Can’t Wait Program in Gwinnett County. Dr. Gilmore has particular interests in the management of disruptive behavior problems, toileting problems, social skills training, early intervention, and training parents in behavior management procedures.
For more information, please call 404-585-5439. Visit her website at www.thefirst-step.com.
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Susan Cook
Physical Therapist & Owner, Activekidz PT
activekidzinc@aim.com
Susan graduated from the Georgia State University Physical Therapy program in 1996. She was working in a home health setting and realized the need for therapists who specialized in children. She founded Activekidz in 2001. Activekidz is contracted with Kidsplay to provide Physical Therapy for the pediatric population. Susan has experience in several pediatric settings (home, school, daycare, and clinic). She is able to evaluate for orthopedic and/or neurological needs of a child. She teaches an aquatic class in Athens once a week for the special needs population.
Susan enjoys running, scrapbooking, and traveling with her husband and two daughters.
Please call 706-338-8058 or email Activekidz@aim.com to schedule an appointment. Current insurance companies we honor are Humana, Coventry and Cigna.
Insurance accepted by Activekidz: Medicaid, Wellcare, Amerigroup, Peachstate, Athens Area Health Plan Select, AETNA, BCBS (HMO/PPO/POS), United Healthcare, Tricare,
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Beth Hinch
Physical Therapist
ActiveKidz PT at Kidsplay
bhinch20@gmail.com
Beth received her Master’s degree in Physical Therapy from Georgia State University in 2002. Prior to going to PT school she played basketball for Piedmont College for two years then transferred to the University of Georgia to receive her Bachelor’s degree in Therapeutic Recreation. She taught at the Special Needs Preschool of Gwinnett for two years. She has worked for Activekidz, Inc. since March 2004. She has experience in the pediatric, orthopedic and neurological settings. She specializes in children with torticollis and developmental delays.
Outside of the clinic Beth enjoys spending time with her 2 ½ year old little girl, her husband and watching Georgia football! She is also new to the world of Triathlons and is a Triathlete. |
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Anna Hess
Speech Language Pathologist
annawright33@gmail.com
Anna Hess received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Science and Disorders in 2008 and a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology in 2010, both from the University of Montevallo. Currently, she is a certified speech-language pathologist and a member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
Anna has experience in both the clinical and public school settings. She enjoys working with all types of disorders, however, she has developed a strong interest and experience in working with social language/pragmatic disorders, early intervention, and children with Down Syndrome.
In her free time, Anna enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with family. Anna has recently relocated to the area upon marriage, and currently resides in Tucker with her husband.
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