Services
Comprehensive Program Education | “The Proactive Audit”
This package is designed to catalyze positive change within school districts, while minimizing risk. This experience includes up to 20 hours on the ground, with complemented meticulous classroom visits, engaging admin and teacher interviews, and a thorough final report loaded with recommendations for improvement. This strategic investment ensures the overall well-being of districts’ autism programs and ensures that schools are equipped to navigate the stringent scrutiny of the Texas Education Agency audits (and/or national requirements). An airtight autism program is the bedrock of a thriving district, preventing the domino effect of corrective actions that could span 1.5 - 2 years, and a lot of money and resources. This package not only includes the on-site assessments, but extends to a comprehensive report, ensuring that schools not only identify areas of improvement, but also receive actionable insights to fortify their autism programs. This is a strategic investment in excellence, that schools cannot afford to overlook on their journey to optimal program performance.
Teacher Evaluation, Consultation, and Professional Dev Service
This support is tailored for educators facing the challenges of teaching students with autism. This services goes far beyond observation, and instead delves into the core of a struggling teacher’s experience, providing a comprehensive evaluation of classroom dynamics, structural components, schedules, work systems, and specific job tasks. This package includes personalized modeling of the best approaches to working with individual students, troubleshooting issues, and offering tangible solutions to enhance teaching effectiveness.
This service is indispensable for schools because the teaching landscape currently grapples with rampant teacher shortages and burnout, especially in the specialized field of educating students with autism, behavioral issues, and other special needs. This service emerges as a lifeline for both the teachers and administrators involved.
The structured classroom environment is not just a teaching tool; it is a retention strategy. SpEd directors, recognizing the urgency of teacher retention, are encouraged to invest in this service to cultivate a supportive ecosystem that empowers teachers, ensuring they feel equipped, valued, and capable of navigating the intricacies of teaching students with autism.
This can be done in an individual or group training package.
Student Behavior Analysis + Intervention
My Student Behavior Analysis and Intervention package can be used for individual or multiple students in a school or district and is used to address unique behavioral challenges while fostering positive change.
This offering involves extensive observation of students in various environments, coupled with an informal Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA) to unravel the intricacies of their behaviors. Delivered over multiple days, this service is a commitment to understanding the individuality within the autism spectrum.
The saying goes, “If you have taught or seen one student with autism, then you have taught or seen ONE student with autism.” Recognizing the absence of a one-size-fits-all intervention, my approach is rooted in a meticulous FBA, considering factors like avoidance, access, attention-seeking, or sensory needs. This process isn’t confined to mere observation; it involves collaboration with teachers, paraprofessionals, occupational therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, and sometimes parents, gathering insights into the behavioral history and shaping behaviors into functional alternatives.
This offering extends beyond the individual, catering to districts grappling with compliance challenges. In my extensive experience, I’ve encountered multiple students within a single school, each requiring distinct intervention strategies. This is the pathway to a harmonious and compliant learning environment.
My parent and family training is a dedicated offering designed to empower parents in understanding and navigating the complexities of autism. Whether conducted in the comfort of your home, within a school setting, or over Zoom, this service is tailored to provide invaluable insights into autism behavior, best practices, and the intricacies of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) processes.
Recognizing the diversity of needs among parents and families, I offer flexible options to ensure accessibility. My pricing models relay my commitment to making resources available to ALL who need it.