Dr. Marie Anzalone
Assistant Professor
meanzalone@vcu.edu
(804)828-1575
Marie Anzalone, ScD, OTR, FAOTA, is Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University and a LEND Faculty member at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. She was previously on the faculty of the Occupational Therapy Program at Columbia University. Marie has presented and published extensively in the area of sensory processing in infants and young children. Dr. Anzalone is a Graduate Fellow of Zero-to-Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families (she was the first occupational therapist to have received this honor), and a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She has served as a consultant to the New York State Department of Education in the development of preschool service guidelines, the New York Early Intervention system in the development of practice guidelines, and a contributor to the Zero-to-Three and ICDL diagnostic taskforces, is a member of the Early Head Start Infant Mental Health Taskforce, and the American Occupational Therapy Association Taskforce on neonatology. Her current research is focuses on mother child interaction during play, goodness of fit between parents and children with regulatory or sensory processing disorders, and the efficacy of sensory integration intervention with children who have autism. She, along with Gordon Williamson, is the author of Sensory integration and self-regulation in infants and toddlers: Helping very young children interact with their environment, published by Zero-to-Three.
