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Author/Illustrator: Marla Roth-Fisch

Marla Roth-FischMarla Fisch’s professional background includes positions in marketing and operations for Los Angeles-based Westfield Corporation, one of the world's top owners and managers of major regional shopping centers. Prior to her experience at Westfield, Fisch founded and ran Raiders’ Benefit Basketball, a California-based organization that recruited professional athletes for charity basketball and softball fundraisers benefitting schools and other causes.

Marla, a happily married mother of two children, lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. She wrote and illustrated the book Sensitive Sam, as a read-together book for parents and children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). The book, written from a child’s perspective, is told in rhyme and illustrated with bright colors and empathetic scenes designed to hold attention and foster better understanding of children with SPD and their parents.

The mother of a son with SPD, Marla Fisch is committed to making an active and positive personal contribution in her future involvement as an SPDF board member.

 

Photo by:   John Leyba  http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=6238