History
Mission and Vision
Core Values
Education
Therapeutic Services
100

Founder of the original STAR Center at the University of Colorado Medical School.

Who is Dr. Lucy Jane Miller?

100

These three branches of STAR Institute enable us to achieve our mission.

What is therapeutic services, education, and research?

100

The four core values of STAR Institute.

What is:

  • I-dentity and We-dentity.

  • Equity and justice.

  • Achievement informed by humility.

  • Generous and generative.

100

This annual event happens is where we hope to ensure that research is translated into practice.

What is "Symposium"?

100

This MDT member aims to facilitate "skills for the job of living".

Who is the occupational therapist?

200

The year that STAR Institute for Sensory Processing officially formed from the merger of the for-profit therapy center and the non-profit research and education foundation.

What is 2016?

200

This modality is a non-negotiable principal of how therapeutic supports are delivered at STAR Institute.

What is play (for plays sake)?

200

This value can be described as STAR's commitment to "go a step farther, be a force multiplier, follow through, and take action".

What is "generous and generative".

200

The online learning platform for STAR Institute.

What is SPD University

200

Dr. Anna Jean Ayres

Who is Founder of sensory integration therapy.

300

The year STAR Center Foundation achieved non-profit 501(c)3 status.

What is 2011.

300

The STAR Vision states: "Sensory _______ ___ ___________ for the State, the Nation, and the World."

What is "Health and Wellness"?

300

This value celebrates communality and connectedness alongside autonomy and agency.

What is the value of "I-dentity and We-dentity".

300

The 101 entry level course offered by STAR Institute.

Foundations for Function

300

Including family members in goal-setting and therapy sessions.

How to support the whole family and promote generalization of skills.

400

These two organizations merged to form STAR Institute.

Who are SPD Foundation and STAR Center?

400

In 2020 STAR Institute began to formally recalibrate its language, focus, and content to move away from ...

What is disorder and pathology based thinking.

400

"To celebrate and cultivate a diverse, inclusive community, share our platform with those who have been marginalized, and work to ensure that all are able to experience sensory health."

What is our pledge to diversity.

400

Virtual event held every June with majority neurodivergent speakers.

What is Virtual Summit Autism.

400

Originally established by Dr. Kay Toomey this therapeutic speciality saves lives.

What is Feeding Therapy

500

This prolific collaborative research group ran from 2002-2017 and was funded by the Wallace Research Foundation.

What is the SPD Scientific Work Group.

500

The mission of STAR Institute a 501(c)3 non-profit.

What is "To impact quality of life by developing and promoting best practices for sensory health and wellness through treatment, education, and research."

500

Equity and social justice includes: being responsible stewards, forging social and occupational justice, listening, responding and including, and _______ _____.

Empowering others.

500

The three domains of the STAR Frame of Reference.

Sensory Integration and Processing, Regulation, Relationships.

500

The name of the DIR/Floortime social emotional assessment used at STAR is FEAS which stands for ... 

What is the Functional Emotional Assessment Scale?