What is Developmental FX?
We are a Denver based nonprofit that works with children that have a range of learning and developmental disabilities. By working with educators, providers, and families, we are able to provide the unique, individualized care that each child needs to reach their full potential. Through our research and ‘Therapy that Fits’ signature programs, we are extending our knowledge and the landscape nationally and globally of what transformative care looks like for children and families.
Our mission is to prepare children with developmental differences for a bright future of engaged belonging by equipping them, their families, therapists, and teachers via innovative programming in Colorado and around the world. Learn more about DFX.
What is Learning Journeys?
DFX Learning Journeys serves as an extension of our mission. We aim to support clinicians, educators, and parents - wherever they may be on their unique path - by providing continuing education opportunities that both empower the individual and serve to elevate pediatric practice.
Tracy Stackhouse
Joining you on your learning journey...
Tracy Murnan Stackhouse has been studying and practicing pediatric occupational therapy for over 35 years.
As is true for most of us, she was drawn to the field because of a love of children and the belief in the infinite possibility of childhood.
As clinicians, we want to use our gifts to help heal and bring about each child's joyful full potential. Once we enter practice, we may be, to varying degrees or at varying times, overwhelmed at all it seems there is to know in order to be effective. This is where the DFX Learning Journeys program comes from - the passion for making clinical reasoning and neuroscience accessible for all of us.
The power of our connection and intention are keys to, in Dr. Ayres' words, "evincing adaptive responses" -- which result in the type of therapy we envision and strive to provide.
Clinical reasoning, grounded in our amazingly rich theories, approaches, and neuroscience, sets us up for clear intention and allows for our connected presence and brings us full circle back to why each of us became a therapist in the first place. It's also the juice that keeps it exciting, interesting, and compelling for the long term.
Meet the Learning Journeys Team
Director of Innovation & Co-Founder, Occupational Therapist Tracy Stackhouse
Tracy Murnan Stackhouse, MA, OTR, is the Director of Innovation & Co-Founder of Developmental FX. She is a leading pediatric occupational therapist (OT) involved in clinical treatment, research, mentoring, and training regarding OT intervention for persons with neurodevelopmental disorders, especially Fragile X Syndrome and autism. Tracy has a master’s degree in developmental psychology/neuroscience. She is the lead author for the SpIRiT & S.T.E.P.S.I. Clinical Reasoning Tools which are leading-edge evidence-based models in pediatric OT. Tracy is a member of the National Fragile X Foundation Clinical Research Consortium, the Scientific And Clinical Advisory Committee, and the NFXF Advisory Council and an expert advisor to the CDC and RTI Fragile X Priorities Panel.
OTR/L, Learning Journeys Program Coordinator Kelsey Forbringer
Kelsey graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a BA in Psychology before receiving her Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Washington University in St. Louis. Kelsey began her career working with pediatric clients in the home and outpatient clinic settings. During a continuing education course in which Tracy presented the SpIRiT, Kelsey knew she wanted to understand the material at a deeper level and needed to be part of the DFX team. Kelsey is passionate about learning and increasing her capacity to support her clients to the best of her ability. In addition to her knowledge of various treatment approaches, Kelsey has completed advanced training in Dr. Stuart Shanker’s Self-Reg curriculum, iLs/Unyte’s Safe and Sound Protocol, and DIR®/Floortime™.
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Occupational Therapist, Instructor Hannah Burke
Hannah K. Burke, Ph.D., OTR/L, graduated with her MS in Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and was a pediatric fellow in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program at Oregon Health & Sciences University. As an OT she has specialized in pediatric nature-based interventions. She has her Ph.D. in Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences from Colorado State University. Her research centered on reasoning, reflective practice, and evidence-based practice in OT. Hannah served as adjunct faculty in clinical doctoral occupational therapy programs, teaching pediatrics and evidence-based practice courses.
