Meet A TEIS Therapist

Tamara Guo, M.Ed. 

Developmental Specialist 

Tamara graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Psychology and Spanish from Juniata College and obtained her Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Early Education of the Handicapped Birth to 5. She began her career in the field of early intervention in 1990 first with Achieva as an assistant toddler group teacher and later at The Early Learning Institute where she spent 10 years as a Developmental Specialist, teaching toddler groups and seeing children for home based therapy.

From 2001-2007 she was the Child Development Specialist at Child's Way, the medical day care facility run by the Children's Home of Pittsburgh. She has worked for TEIS since May 2007 and currently is an independent evaluator in Beaver County. Her special areas of interest are working with premature infants, medically fragile children, children with multiple disabilities and children with Down syndrome. She chose early intervention as a career because she loves working with young children and as a pre-teen became interested in the field of autism (before there were any such programs or certifications for that specialty!). She is married, has two rescue dogs and her hobbies include travel, music, guitar, and most recently running half marathons with her husband..