Biography

Colette Silver, MS, OTR/L

Colette Yglesias Silver, MS, OTR/L received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School in 1975 and her Masters of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Shenandoah University in 2001. She has worked for Montgomery County Public Schools in both the elementary grades and preschool program (PEP) and at ITS- Developmental Therapy Services from 2006 to 2018, opening her own private clinic in 2018. Colette is certified in Sensory Integration Theory and Treatment and to administer the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT). She is certified in Integrated Listening Systems (iLS), the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), Therapeutic Listening, and The Listening Program (TLP). Colette has studied the reflex integration techniques of the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration Method (MNRI) since 2010 and became a Core Specialist in 2020. Additional advanced training includes Social Thinking, Zones of Regulation, the SOS Approach to Feeding, Managing Visual Deficits, Astronaut Training as well as Brain Gym and many fine motor courses. She has lectured on Sensory Integration for MCPS PEP and community groups.  Colette has lectured and taught internationally, served as a consultant for organizing SI clinics and helped develop occupational therapy programs at Center 21, an organization that serves young adults with disabilities in Kuwait City, Kuwait. In addition to her work as an OT, Colette founded and was the Artistic Director of Dance Arts Moving Arts, a modern dance studio and performing space in downtown DC, which was active in the 1980’s. She has choreographed over 30 dances and performed at venues in New York City and Washington DC. Colette has taught acting, dance, improvisation and movement to children and adults at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory (currently the Studio Acting Conservatory) in downtown Washington DC since 1981 and uses her unique understanding of movement and creativity in her work as a therapist. She is the proud mother of three adult children.