24th International Montessori Congress

Education as an Aid to Life

Congress Speakers

Dr. Silvana Montanaro

Dr. Silvana Montanaro

 

Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro MD, gained her degree in Medicine and Surgery, with a speciality in Psychiatry from the University of Rome. In 1955 she joined the staff of the Rome Montessori school for assistants to infancy, where she taught mental hygiene, child neuro-psychiatry, nutrition and obstetrics. Dr. Montanaro co-founded the Italian Medical Institute for the Study of Relaxation's Phenomena and States of Consciousness, serves as a trainer in Respiratory Autogenic Training (RAT), works in clinics and hospitals to prepare couples to nurture children under the age of three and has acted as Director of Training on AMI assistants to infancy courses in Rome, Houston, Denver, London, Mexico City, San Diego and Yokohama. She also serves on the Board of AMI. She has several books on the child from 0-3 to her name.