"I am a Pediatrician, who against and despite all my medical school training, treated my own child and still treat my patients with Autism using biomedical therapies. However, there was always something missingundefineda piece I did not get, not taught in Med School, not fixed with supplements and nutrition: HANDLE is it! I think I get it.”
~ Dr. W. Edwards, Pediatrician & Parent
“HANDLE has taught me techniques that are simple yet inexpensive, and do improve muscle tone, vestibular processing, kinesthesia, proprioception, and tactility… I have seen dramatic and drastic changes in the clients with whom I incorporate HANDLE activities.”
~ Gail Buchen, PT
“Administrators and other teachers saw remarkable growth in students who had ‘plateaued’ or who had shown no growth for years. The changes were academic, social and behavioral.”
~ M. Howell, educator with 19 years experience, who used HANDLE activities in her middle school special education classroom
“It was delightful to have complex neurophysiological concepts explained in earthy robust terms that all could understand. I couldn't help giggling to think of what a fun time kids must have in your office. Your concepts tie together so much knowledge that has been just "hanging" out there for years, and I thought your graphics were exciting and easy to understand. It is amazing how much your thinking has advanced our field, and what you have given us all to build on. I have been counseling for 27 years and doing biofeedback (and neurofeedback) in a multimodal approach for 6 years. My husband and I have just come to the Seattle area, and I am getting set up here practice-wise. Over the year's I have always taken a holistic approach, whether to reversing heart disease, working with performance, or ADD (loved your new term, by the way-agree whole heartedly!) It was great to see someone serving the whole person with the depth and care that you do. I have seen so many closed head trauma kids and ADD kids who improved brain functioning with biofeedback, but who needed something more. In the past, the best I could do was send them off to occupational therapists. Now I know just where they belong undefined I will send them to you.”
~ Mary Ahearn, MA, Licensed Mental Health Counselor
“We have worked collaboratively with Judith for several years, frequently calling upon her to assess client's processing, especially visual processing. Her approach to clients and their families is individualized, thorough, innovative, and of the highest quality. Her eclectic knowledge base and creativity have proved highly successful with even the most complex conditions. The HANDLE approach which she is codifying is, to my knowledge, the only truly neurodevelopmental approach to neurological functioning currently available.”
~ Susie Hepner, OTR/L, Former Director, Evergreen Head Injury Re-Entry Center
[Note: Susie felt so strongly about the benefits of the HANDLE approach, and realized that these techniques were lacking in the training of all of her professional medical rehabilitation staff, that she persuaded King County hospital system to create a position of NeuroDevelopmental/Educational Therapist for HANDLE founder Judith Bluestone.]
“Judith [Bluestone] was a consultant for the Evergreen Head Injury Re-Entry Center for nearly two years. Her integrated approach for diagnosing and treating the complex and often confusing dysfunctions of our neurologically impaired population has been invaluable. As a diagnostician, she employs a broad base of knowledge which has developed from unceasing curiosity. As a therapist, she is creative, warm, and committed. She has clearly expanded my conceptual and therapeutic understanding of the treatment of persons with traumatic brain injury and learning problems secondary to neurological dysfunction.”
~ Judith Skenazy, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist
“I am seriously impressed. This work touches the nerve of virtually everything taking place in our current cultural crisis of childhood.”
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of "Magical Child, Evolution’s End, The Biology of Transcendence"
“[The HANDLE] course taught me how many mistakes, innocent mistakes, I [had been] making in my practice as a behavioral implementer. I would love to keep learning in order to complement my practice and give hope to more families in the community.”
~ Natalia Perez
“Loved [the introductory course]! I’m excited about getting into the HANDLE work to bring it to my patients.”
~ Roy Desjarlais, LMT, CST-D, Vice President of Clinical Services, The Upledger Institute, Inc.