About the Author

Anna Vagin, PhD, is a licensed speech/language pathologist with over 30 years experience. Currently in private practice in Marin County, she provides individual sessions and social learning groups to families and children 6 months through college age. Her particular interest is using media to support social thinking in students with diagnoses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD/ADD, and Anxiety Disorder, or who have social learning challenges. Dr. Vagin received her doctorate from UC Berkeley and SFSU, writing her dissertation on the subject of mother-child interaction in children with cleft lip and palate. Her particular areas of study were attachment theory, early child language, and cranio-facial disfigurement. She studied mother-child interaction with Anne Fernald, PhD at Stanford University's Center for Infant Studies. She provides consultation to parents and schools, and is a frequent speaker in the US and Canada on topics related to social cognition. She is the author of Movie Time Social Learning (2012) and YouCue Feelings: Online Video Viewing for Social Learning (2015).