Paula Barnard-Ashton is an experienced occupational therapist and university lecturer. She has been published in several journals and magazines and is a well-known expert in paediatric occupational therapy. Paula’s expertise lies in child development, learning difficulties and Sensory Integration, and she is currently a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. Paula has over 10 years of clinical paediatric occupational therapy experience. Paula is married and mother to a 10-year-old daughter, Morgan.