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TheraPlay4Kids - Who We Are

Cathy’s Bio

Cathy Anne Wilcox used her creative talents to illustrate all the critter scenes in “The Big Alphabet Book of Critter Tales.” Cathy is a graduate of SUNY (Cortland), State University of New York, majoring in Speech Language Pathology. Her background in Speech Therapy, as well as being a mom of young children, has enhanced the development of the book’s therapeutic foundation and basis.

Cathy not only created lively, kid-friendly illustrations, but also contributed to the therapeutic and interactive activity plan that accompanies each critter tale. Cathy’s illustrations give life to each critter tale, sparking a child’s interactive imagination and involvement in the scene.

The illustrations were designed to incorporate details for the child to discover that promote language skills, visual scanning, visual perceptual integration, as well as the development of cognitive processing, sequencing and organized thought.

Judy’s Bio

Judy Benz Duncan has been an Occupational Therapist for over 40 years. She has worked with children from infants to teenagers in numerous settings that included early intervention, pre-school programs, grade school, home health, developmental training centers, and sensory integration clinics.

Judy developed the foundation for designing therapeutic activities and tasks using interactive play and creative imagination to engage the children at a level they could easily relate to while working toward the achievement of their Occupational Therapy program’s functional goals and treatment plan.

Judy attended the University of Florida, University of Kansas, and the University of Tennessee. She received New York State approval as a Supplemental Evaluator for OT with early intervention and pre-school students, and has helped develop and start an OT program for families and children in New York. Judy continues to stay up-to-date in the clinical field through mentoring other OT students and new graduates.

She continues to contribute to children, families and professionals everywhere through her professional writing endeavors which include writing books and manuals, managing the therapeutic website, TheraPlay4Kids.com, writing OT blogs and topic-specific articles, and writing bi-weekly professional blogs for a pediatric orthopedic surgeon group, a psychiatrist, and an attorney at law. In collaboration with Cathy, she is working on the book, “The Big Alphabet Book of Critter Tales.”

Judy saw the value in use of play, development of creative thought and imagination in promoting physical, cognitive, perceptual, and language development, as well as positively impacting those children with sensory integrative issues. The development of this website, TheraPlay4Kids, is based around these ideas and concepts.