Ph.D., Clinical Developmental Psychology, Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Predoctoral Clinical Child/Pediatric Psychology APA Internship, Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami M.A., Human Development, Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Special Studies, Psychology & Spanish, Stanford University M.S.N., Yale University B.S.N. cum laude, Marymount College of Kansas Licensed Psychologist PSY 18819 Registered Nurse 330460 Certificate in Infant Mental Health (Cedars-Sinai, 2002) Certified Infant Massage Instructor, CIMI, July 31, 2009 Certified School Psychologist (Pennsylvania, 1991) Board-Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (RN,CPNP,MSN) (#81223,NAPNAP Boards, 1981) Certified in Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment (Child Development Unit, Children's Hospital, Boston,1980) Post-Graduate Diploma in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Nursing (Greenlane Hospital, New Zealand,1978)

Dr. Eileen Escarce is a licensed clinical developmental psychologist, school psychologist and pediatric nurse practitioner with a specialty and certification in the emotional and social well-being of infants and young children. In 2003, Eileen founded BabyAttuned as an infant-parent health promotion program to encourage sensitive and reflective parenting and developmental record-keeping for every child. BabyAttuned is designed to support parents in the wonderful journey of caring for and supporting the optimal development of their babies. Caring for infants and children has been a primary endeavor since childhood, as Eileen was one of the oldest of seven children. Initially a nurse, she worked as a home visiting student nurse to mothers and newborns in England, and later as a postgraduate nurse for infants undergoing cardiothoracic surgery in New Zealand. She also worked in pediatric and neonatal intensive care, general pediatrics, and pediatric oncology and gastroenterology settings in the U.S. As a Yale graduate student, she received training in the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment (BNBAS) scale and completed a cross-cultural study of Nepalese infants. Later she worked on the adaptation of the BNBAS to premature and NICU infants at Stanford. As a CPNP at U.C.San Diego Medical Centers, she incorporated behavioral observations in newborn admission and discharge exams and supported exclusive breastfeeding in the maternity ward. During her years as a pediatric nurse practitioner in well child care, Eileen enjoyed discussing the routine concerns of parenting infants and children: feeding,sleep,development,discipline, and other issues. Later, as a school psychologist, Dr. Escarce consulted for both public and private preschools and elementary schools outside Philadelphia, providing classroom consultations and admission and gifted (IQ) testing for school entrance. Eileen's dissertation research followed "slow to talk" toddlers from parents' first concern to their later reading achievement at age 8. Her APA predoctoral Pediatric/Clinical Child internship at the Mailman Center of Child Development at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital included primary rotations in pediatric oncology, mother-infant interaction therapy for infants prenatally substance-exposed, and child abuse assessment and treatment. Eileen's clinical specialty is birth to five developmental assessment and treatment.  Since 2000, her work in Los Angeles has included contracts with:   Cedars-Sinai Pediatrics Department Community Child Health programs of (e.g.,home visitation of post-NICU infants and mothers, and pediatric/mental health consultation to LAUSD preschools and elementary schools) St.John's Child and Family Development Center's Birth to Five assessment and treatment program Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center evaluating young children with developmental delays, autism, and mental retardation; and as a faculty member of the Touchpoints Special Needs Training Team which trained professionals in the developmental and relational anticipatory guidance model developed by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, adapted to the special needs population, and facilitating New Paths support groups for parents of children Birth to Five with Special Needs.  Family Services of Santa Monica, as a mental health consultant and developmental psychologist for SMMUSD's 8 Head Starts and State preschools and the Growing Place Infant and Child Care Centers Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health AB3632 Assessment Unit, evaluating emotionally disturbed children in the schools LA County Children's Court regarding the needs of foster children UCLA on a First 5 LA-funded Early Developmental Screening Initiative to increase developmental screening in pediatric practices and early child care centers Santa Monica Connections for Children, educating child care providers in developmental screening implementation in their settings Eileen currently maintains a private practice in Brentwood where she provides assessment and treatment for infants,children, and adolescents and their families. Raising her own three children has been an ongoing pleasure for the past 24 years. As a community service, she leads the Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group for the Los Angeles County's Psychological Association.