TNPEE · TSRM-PSTRP Professional Register
About me
I am Margherita Dal Piaz, a Neuro and Psychomotor Therapist for Developmental Age (TNPEE), registered with the TSRM-PSTRP Professional Register for Healthcare Rehabilitation Professionals.
Since 2017, I have worked in the rehabilitation of children with complex disabilities at the Paediatric Intensive Rehabilitation Unit of IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome, mainly with children aged 0 to 7.
In my private practice, I provide prevention, rehabilitation, and neuro-psychomotor developmental support.
I specialise in intervention for newborns and infants and, as a certified AIMI infant massage instructor, I run individual and small-group courses for new parents.
I have also developed specialist expertise in infant sleep and I support families in helping their children establish healthy sleep patterns.
My main areas of clinical practice
- Developmental delays or asymmetries in psychomotor development
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Developmental coordination disorder
- Attention difficulties
- Prematurity
- Infant sleep physiology
- Postural asymmetries and deformities in childhood
- Neuromotor, neuromuscular, and genetic conditions
Post-graduate specialist training
Bobath approach for cerebral palsy in children and related neurological conditions
Post-graduate advanced training course
Kinesio taping and functional taping in paediatric practice
SaM® method (Sense and Mind): body, imagery and metacognition in neuropsychological rehabilitation
University advanced training course · Università Cattolica, Milan
AIMI certified infant massage instructor course
Brazelton courses
University Hospital Meyer, Florence · Brazelton Touchpoints Centre
- Neuro-developmental semiology and supportive intervention: 0–18 months
- Eco Edu-Care for psychomotor development in the first three years of life
- The Brazelton approach with families to support child development
- Sleep and its secrets: working with families to support sleep from 0 to 6 years
- Observation of newborn behaviour using the NBO method (Newborn Behavioral Observation System)
RMP (Progressive Modular Rebalancing) and EMP (Progressive Modular Education) – Kabat concept
University Master’s programme · La Sapienza University, Rome
Sensory and emotional regulation in neurodevelopmental disorders – from assessment to rehabilitation
Post-graduate advanced training course
The profession
Who is the Neuro and Psychomotor Therapist for Developmental Age?
The Neuro and Psychomotor Therapist for Developmental Age (TNPEE) is a healthcare professional specialising in preventive, habilitative, and rehabilitative intervention across the neonatal, early childhood, paediatric, and adolescent stages. In Italy, the profession is recognised and regulated by Ministerial Decree No. 56 of 17 January 1997, and requires a specific qualifying degree and registration with the professional register.
Their practice is grounded in an integrated view of development and covers the following areas:
Using specific tools — clinical observation, play, movement, and therapeutic relationship — the TNPEE supports the acquisition and integration of developmental competencies, adapting each intervention to the individual child's characteristics and needs.
The aim is to promote harmonious neuro-psychomotor development and reduce the impact of any difficulties that arise.
Intervention is always personalised, dynamic, and relationship-centred, with particular attention to play as the primary therapeutic tool. It goes beyond rehabilitation to include developmental promotion and prevention, addressing both the child and their family and school environment.