About
Kristin Conaboy Edwards,
OTR/L, ABDA, ETS
Kristin Conaboy Edwards has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of occupational therapy, special education services, and family and educational advocacy. She is considered an expert in her field with wide-ranging experience working with children who have physical, sensory, learning, language, medical, and social and emotional challenges. Ms. Edwards is a fervent advocate and serves families with children from infancy through young adulthood in private settings, homes, schools, and community programs. She regularly provides vetted community referrals, support in IFSP and IEP meetings, record review and strategic planning meetings, parent coaching, legal consultation, and expert testimony in special education due process hearings. She works with new graduate clinicians to support their growth and development, seasoned professionals to tackle challenges and creatively treatment plan, and business owners who want to collaborate on projects and business development.
Education
She is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor of science degree in occupational therapy and a minor in psychology. She completed her pediatric specialty fieldwork program at the Georgetown University Child Development Center (now known as Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development) and holds a graduate certificate in transition special education from George Washington University.
In addition to being a board certified disability analyst, Ms. Edwards is also a certified employment training specialist and a certified Karma Kids Yoga Instructor. She has completed a level 1 certification in Tech Addiction & Digital Health in Children, Adolescents & Young Adults.
She has experience working in varied clinical, therapeutic, and diagnostic settings including community-based programs, homeless shelters, child care settings, early intervention programs, public, private, and charter school programs, specialized/non-public school placements, family homes and community settings, and telehealth platforms.
Experience
Ms. Edwards is licensed to practice occupational therapy in Washington, D.C, Virginia, Maine, Delaware, and Ohio and serves advocacy clients across the nation. She is certified by the National Board for Certification for Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) and is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) where she previously served on the AOTA Transition Task Force, to collaborate on important transition publications, present at the national conference, and to serve as a representative of the field at briefings on Capitol Hill.
Ms. Edwards founded, owned, and operated Conaboy & Associates, Inc. in Washington, D.C., for nearly 25 years where she grew the practice from a single Occupational Therapist into a highly respected, experienced, boutique firm with an extremely specialized team of OT, PTs, Speech Therapists, Assistive Technology Professionals, Yoga Instructors, and advocates. Her Conaboy practice family grew over decades with an intense drive to serve the community, fight for the rights of children with differing abilities, fill the gaps of services for under resourced neighborhoods, and to empower parents, caregivers, teachers, and school leaders to do the same. Ms. Edwards recently sold Conaboy & Associates, Inc. to spend more time with her family, serve her immediate community in new ways, and to focus on her family and educational advocacy. Presently, she works with families, attorneys, clinicians, and educational and medical teams though advocacy, coaching, and mentorship. She cultivates a team approach, a client-and-family-centered model of practice, and works to develop creative solutions to ensure children’s needs can be met in their community. Her approach is direct. She holds team members accountable for outcomes, with the ultimate goal of finding creative ways to work with stakeholders, decrease learning barriers, build bridges, and develop program resources, infrastructure, and documentation that best serves children, and the professionals who work with them. Ms. Edwards lives with her family in the DC area, forever believing that children who learn together, live together.
