Barbara Kalmanson PhD

Barbara Kalmanson is a clinical psychologist and special educator who has worked with infants, children, and their families for over 30 years. She did her doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kalmanson taught at the Infant-Parent Program at UCSF where she worked with Selma Fraiberg. She was a Harris Fellow of Zero to Three, where she began working with Stanley Greenspan to develop the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL).

Dr. Kalmanson is currently the Academic Dean of the ICDL Graduate School doctoral program in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Disorders. She is a founder of the Oak Hill School, a developmental, relationship-based school for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum and related neurodevelopmental disorders. She practices in San Francisco and Marin County, teaches locally and internationally, and has served on multiple boards of directors, received several honors and awards, and published and presented on infant mental health, early identification and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders, and family-provider relationships.