SPD Scientific Work Group Participants

Miller, Lucy Jane, PhD, OTR

Title: Founder
Institution: STAR Institute
Mailing Address: 5420 S. Quebec St., Suite 103, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone: (303) 221-7827
Email: research@spdstar.org


Dr. Miller is a professor of Pediatrics at Rocky Mountain University and an associate clinical professor in the departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver. She has authored nine nationally standardized assessments for children with special needs and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles and chapters on SPD. Her groundbreaking book on SPD for parents and professionals, Sensational Kids: Help and Hope for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (New York: GP Putnam's Sons), was published in 2006 and released in paperback in 2007. In 2005, Dr. Miller received the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association, the highest award in the OT profession. In 2006, she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the state of Colorado. Her work has been featured on 20-20 (ABC), The Today Show (NBC), and The Early Show (CBS), and in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, and numerous other national and regional publications.