Author. Speaker.
Occupational Therapist.
Mom. Believer.
Using her many years of experience as a pediatric Occupational Therapist, a mom, and a believer, Heidi Tringali helps parents and caregivers successfully navigate the challenging years of childhood. Heidi uses a lens of Learning Readiness to help ensure children are ready for the classroom and life beyond by providing easy-to-implement, developmentally appropriate, and child-friendly strategies and techniques.
The Readied Child
Parenting Tools for Learning and Life Readiness
Heidi Tringali teaches you practical learning readiness strategies to help children fulfill their God-given potential. As a pediatric Occupational Therapist, Heidi serves children who struggle with the daily activities of learning, playing, and being a family member.
Parenting is full of the unexpected. Through her work, Heidi supports families dealing with unexpected behaviors, performances, emotions, abilities, reports, words, days, and nights. Throughout her career, she has been given a front-row seat to the transformative process of children growing into their fullest potential, parents learning to view their children through a lens of success and possibilities, and families coming together to celebrate the uniqueness that defines them.
Parenting is hard.
Trying to decipher your child’s behaviors and actions while getting them ready for the world can be utterly overwhelming.
Parenting is particularly difficult in the early years when advice and opinions are abundant, and confidence is low. When teaching on The Readied Child, Heidi Tringali, MS,OTR/L shares her personal experiences as a mom, a believer, and a pediatric Occupational Therapist. She jumps on your run-away parenting train with you and helps bring it back on the tracks with tools, tips, and tactics that are simple, fun, and practical.
The concept of The Readied Child provides the foundation, the tools, and the next step for parents to have a successful parenting plan. Her strategies will help your little one be ready to learn in the classroom and the years beyond.
Using the Learning Readiness approach, parents and caregivers will:
• Transform their parenting plan from rocky to rock-solid
• Transition from frenzied daily survival to a balanced, predictable routine that will ensure their child will be ready for the demands of the classroom
• Help their child eliminate meltdowns, wiggles, and weak social skills and transform into a child who is regulated, calm, and socially connected
• End unfavorable child behaviors by understanding what those behaviors are really revealing and having sensible ways to respond
• Discover how to replace their child’s blurting and interrupting with the skill of holding a thought
• Lessen the need to yell or repeat themselves by developing their child into a first-time listener
• Learn how to teach their children how to wait without entertainment
Meet Heidi Tringali, MS,OTR/L
Heidi holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Special Education and Psychology from Hastings College and a Master of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University. She has practiced as an Occupational Therapist for 35 years.
Heidi founded Tringali Occupational Therapy Services (T.O.T.S) in 2006 in response to an identified need for Occupational Therapy services in independent schools. Heidi provides training and education to faculty and families on topics related to classroom success and maximizing student performance. She consults throughout the country on curriculum development and school-wide programming.
Heidi is currently licensed in Maine, North Carolina, and South Carolina. She is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), where she serves as a Media Expert. Heidi holds a national certification with the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). She also serves as an Expert Witness/Consultant for legal cases related to pediatric Occupational Therapy.
Heidi and her husband, Tony, live in Charlotte, North Carolina. They have two adult children, Sedonia and Thomas.
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