Stern is a certified School Principal and Guidance Counselor. He has extensive experience, in excess of twenty years, in the field of child development, parental consultation, and behavior change strategies. He has worked with children diagnosed as severly developmentally disabled, learning disabled, attention deficit, language impaired, emotionally handicapped, behavior disordered, those that defy categoriztion, and even some regular old "normal" kids. He has worked with a vast array of parents labeled similarly.