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About Geraldine V. Oades-Sese

Kiddiewinks Publishing's mission is to create stories to inspire children to embrace who they are and the unique and colorful people around them. Each story aims to cultivate your child’s appreciation for diversity and elevate social-emotional learning, mental health, science knowledge, and language skills.

Geraldine V. Oades-Sese, Ph.D., is a licensed child psychologist in private practice in New Jersey. She has diagnosed and treated children with anxiety, depression, OCD, ASD, and ADHD, for over 15 years and is an expert at evaluating children for learning differences and giftedness. Prior to clinical practice, she was the Associate Director and Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She also held joint appointments at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and the Graduate School of Education. In addition, she co-founded the integrated behavioral health program at RWJ Medical Center.

Geraldine V. Oades-Sese, Ph.D., is a licensed child psychologist in private practice in New Jersey. She has diagnosed and treated children with anxiety, depression, OCD, ASD, and ADHD, for over 15 years and is an expert at evaluating children for learning differences and giftedness. Prior to clinical practice, she was the Associate Director and Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She also held joint appointments at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and the Graduate School of Education. In addition, she co-founded the Integrated Behavioral Health Program at RWJ Medical Center.

Kiddiewinks Publishing's mission is to create stories to inspire children to embrace who they are and the unique and colorful people around them. Each story aims to cultivate your child’s appreciation for diversity and elevate social-emotional learning, mental health, science knowledge, and language skills.

Her research focuses on the resilience and social-emotional development of young children. She was the Principal Investigator of a large-scale study demonstrating the effectiveness of childhood resilience initiatives of Sesame Workshop’s Little Children, Big Challenges: General Resilience, Children of Divorce, and Children with an Incarcerated Parent.

In addition, she designed and led Project COMBAT, Project Resilience, and Project Social Competence and has conducted multi-year program evaluations for school districts with at-risk children.

Her community work included serving as an advisor to Sesame Workshop, WNET Thirteen, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 9111 Building Renovation Project, National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated, and the Military Child Education Coalition, and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. She was also a facilitator for the “Joining Forces Initiative” Call to Action Warrior-Centric Healthcare Training Interprofessional Education Program at the medical school.

Dr. Gerry is also a children’s picture book and comic strip author. She has written several publications related to building resilience in children, psychological assessment, multicultural and bilingual children, therapeutic interventions, and using video games in therapy. In her spare time, she is an avid bird photographer, has taken training as a private pilot, and has performed as a professional drummer for over 30 years.

Kiddiewinks Publishing's mission is to create stories to inspire children to embrace who they are and the unique and colorful people around them. Each story aims to cultivate your child’s appreciation for diversity and elevate social-emotional learning, mental health, science knowledge, and language skills.

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Kiddiewinks Publishing's mission is to create stories to inspire children to embrace who they are and the unique and colorful people around them. Each story aims to cultivate your child’s appreciation for diversity and elevate social-emotional learning, mental health, science knowledge, and language skills.

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