Dr. Lynne Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the Language & Cognition Team at the Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia in Scottsdale, Arizona. She completed advanced fellowship training in developmental pediatric psychology and forensic psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Kenney has developed curriculum, programming, and activities that strengthen children's cognition through rhythmic cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building, and social-relational learning. Her work focuses on students in grades K–6. It translates research on the brain-body connection into practical tools for classrooms, clinics, and homes.
Her recent innovations include Cognitivities™, a collection of portable Roll-Out Activities® mats launched with Fit and Fun Playscapes in 2024. The mats combine music, art, and movement to help children practice cognitive skills, executive function, and self-regulation. In 2025, she released a set of original executive function songs for classrooms on Apple Music. She wrote the lyrics, which carry the same cognitive and social-relational lessons she teaches in schools worldwide.
Dr. Kenney is an international educator, researcher, and author. Her books include Move More, Learn More! Harnessing the Brain–Body Connection in Early Childhood (Kuczala & Kenney, 2026), Brain Primers (Kuczala & Kenney, 2020), 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016), and Bloom: 50 Things to Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). She also created the social-emotional literacy program Bloom Your Room™ and Musical Thinking™.
Dr. Kenney is committed to improving the learning trajectories of children in high-need, under-resourced communities. She places particular value on her work with Title I schools. Since 1985, she has served as an educator in community service with organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, First Nations communities in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On).