The Gentry Foundation

Dr. Gentry obtained his doctoral degree from Illinois State University, specializing in assessment, consultation, behavioral therapies and developmental disabilities. After completing his doctoral fellowships at The May Institute in Massachusetts, he and his family moved out to Phoenix Arizona, where they continued to provide services to children a... nd their families. Dr. Gentry has been working with children with disabilities such as autism, ADHD, anxiety and other behavioral challenges for the past 14 years and has presented his research nationally on topics related to applied behavior analysis, social skills and autism spectrum disorders. As the co-owner of Gentry Pediatric Behavioral Services, he and his wife, Sarah, have been providing services throughout Phoenix and the entire state of Arizona for over 8 years. However, when they started to realize the problem that Arizona was facing with young kids with Autism not being found until they were older, they decided they could try to do something about it. The Gentry Foundation is their way of attempting to decrease the age at which children in Arizona are evaluated for possible Autism symptoms, by offering free evaluations to families who can not afford one, increasing awareness of the earliest red flags that have been researched, and by coordinating free screenings around Arizona to screen as many infants and toddlers as possible for these warning signs. Sarah Gentry started her career as a certified special education teacher. She received her bachelors degree in special education at Illinois State University, in Normal Illinois. She stayed in Normal, IL and taught special education for more than three years in the public school setting. She taught kindergarten through second grade during the school year and spent four summers working with young adults in a summer camp setting. Sarah has first hand experience teaching very diverse groups of students, including Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, Conduct Disorder, Fragile X, ADHD and Learning ...Read More