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Camp director, Neil Hartman, is a Camp Director at Play By Play Sports Broadcasting Camps in multiple cities. He was an award-winning television sportscaster in Philadelphia for nearly three decades prior to making the transition to content development and higher education.

Laura Hillman, MS, OTR/L, the owner/ lead therapist at Playful Minds Pediatric Occupational Therapy, has extensive experience providing effective sensory-motor based treatments to address the challenges often experienced by autistic children and their families.     Laura has worked in private pediatric practice for nearly a decade, and adores opportunities to work closely with young and school-aged clients and their families.  Drawing on her services in various autism programs through the years, and her personal values of autonomy and self-determination, Laura operates from a strengths-based perspective in supporting her autistic clients and their families. She commonly addresses such concerns as sensory processing challenges, feeding difficulties (in concert with speech therapy), self-care difficulties, sleep dysregulation, and mitigation of injurious or other challenging behavior.   She is highly skilled in applying sensory-informed, progress-focused intervention that honors behavior as a form of communication, while supporting collaboration with other disciplines and modalities.    Although the majority of Laura’s clients are school-aged or younger, she welcomes older clients.  Please schedule a free intake video chat to determine if you or your child are a good fit for occupational therapy with Laura Hillman at Playful Minds Occupational Therapy, LLC.