Dr. Lynette Scotese-Wojtila is a licensed occupational therapist, with over 30 years of pediatric experience. Dr. Scotese-Wojtila is a Certified Autism Specialist with a dual certification in Sensory Integration (SI). She specializes in transdisciplinary care, sensory integration, therapeutic use of self, and the evaluation and treatment of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In 1995, Dr. Scotese-Wojtila established Integrations Treatment Center, Inc. (ITC), a unique transdisciplinary outpatient, educational day treatment, and training facility designed specifically to meet the complex needs of children and adults with ASD. In 1998 she coined The S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Approach^SM, ITC’s innovative, synclectic, and neurodevelopmental model for assessing, educating and treating children and adults with autism. As an affiliate of local colleges and a Doctoral Capstone Advisor at Gannon University, Dr. Scotese-Wojtila has taught numerous classes and workshops on transdisciplinary care, sensory integration, and autism. She is published on various topics in autism including: a chapter defining transdisciplinary care in a text entitled Autism: A Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Approach, (AOTA 2001); a research study entitled High-Dose Pyridoxine and Magnesium Administration in Children with Autistic Disorder: An Absence of Salutary Effects in a Double-blind Placebo-controlled Study, (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1997): and her recent doctoral research study on The Effects of The S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Approach^SM in Preschoolers with Autism (2019). In response to the growing demand for broader distribution of The S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Approach^SM mentality, Dr. Scotese-Wojtila and film producer JW Myers, co-established AWEtism Productions LLC, and created an autism training DVD entitled It Doesn’t Need to be This Hard, for Anyone! Portions of her DVD are streamed on Dr. Scotese-Wojtila’s TV show called Connect with SUCCESS, available on The Autism Channel on Roku. Dr. Scotese-Wojtila would go on to produce her own feature length film entitled “My Hiccups are Gone” that chronicles the autism journey of a Texas family with twin boys with autism who relocate to Ohio to access The S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Approach^SM at Integrations Treatment Center. The film’s world premiere was held in October 2016 as part of the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. In addition to serving on various boards and state-orchestrated task forces, Dr. Scotese-Wojtila lectures locally and nationally and is known as a fierce advocate for both people and families with autism as well as her beloved field of occupational therapy. As ITC’s Founding Director she is committed to educating parents, professionals, and society at large, about her unique autism center in Wickliffe Ohio, and its best-practice model for autism; The S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Approach^SM