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Vicki de Klerk-Rubin

Executive Director, Validation Training Institute

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Vicki de Klerk-Rubin oversees organizational operations and is a Validation Master. Together with her mother, Naomi Feil, she revised the books, Validation: the Feil Method and The Validation Breakthrough. She authored Validation Techniques for Dementia Care: the Family Guide to Improving Communication and a new workbook: Communicate with older adults with cognitive decline: Validation for First  Responders. She has a BFA from Boston University, an MBA from Fordham University, and did her nursing degree at Higher Technical School of Amsterdam.  

Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, Executive Director, Validation Training Institute

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