Christen Leach, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, BCP

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Dr. Leach joined Touro University in June 2020, coming from the Clark County School District where she worked for 21 years with children aged 3 to 22 with varying eligibilities and has supervised a COTA for the past 16 years. Her clinical experience is primarily in school-based and home-health pediatrics, and she has also worked with community early intervention services ages 0-3. She has extensive experience in inpatient rehabilitation as well as hospital-based acute care working with adults and older adults with varying chronic conditions and physical disabilities as well as treating patients on a dedicated brain injury unit.

Dr. Leach received her Bachelor of Science in Special Education in 1995, her Master of Occupational Therapy from Rockhurst University in 2001 and completed her post-clinical doctorate in occupational therapy from Creighton University in August 2020. Her doctoral project focused on the Utility of the Occupation-Centered Intervention Assessment in pediatrics which seeks to measure whether and how occupational therapy practitioners utilize occupation as both a means and ends of therapy in practice. Dr. Leach also received her AOTA Board Certification in Pediatrics in 2021. She has completed the STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Advanced Mentorship, Level 1 Clinical Reasoning in Intervention in 2021 and the Sensory Processing Proficiency Level 1 through the STAR Institute in 2022.