Name: Amanda Fishley
Role / Credential: MA, BCBA, COBA
Special Learning’s Designation: Panelist of ABCs of Sensory Processing Disorder: Where Do I Start?
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Ability to Contribute: She has extensive experience mentoring and providing supervision to RBTs, BCBA candidates and behavior analysts.
Name: Iris Maynard
Role / Credential: MA
Special Learning’s Designation: Panelist for Ethics of Compassionate Mandated Reporting Across Disciplines
Company Name: El Paso County Department of Human Services
Company URL: www.humanservices.elpasoco.com
Ability to Contribute: Iris trains and supervises a team of caseworkers weekly to discuss cases, to create treatment plans, to address parent’s protective capacities, concerns, worker performance, and career development to achieve peak productivity, performance, and motivation.
Name: Deborah P. Coehlo
Role / Credential: PhD, C-PNP, PMHS, CFLE
Special Learning’s Designation: Subject Matter Expert in Psychopharmacology
Company Name: Juniper Pediatrics
Company URL: www.juniperpediatrics.com
Ability to Contribute: Dr. Debbie Coehlo is a certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Pediatric Mental Health Specialist with a Doctoral Degree in Family Sciences and Human Development.
Name: Ronnie Detrich (Late)
Role / Credential: PhD
Special Learning’s Designation: World’s Leading Expert in ABA in Schools
Company Name: Detrich and Associates
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Ability to Contribute: Dr. Ronnie Detrich has been a student of ABA for over 50 years. As an ABA practitioner with over 50 years of direct hands-on clinical experience, his body of work and contribution to the field of ABA.
Name: Tamara S. Kasper
Role / Credential: MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA
Special Learning’s Designation: Panelist ASHA and BACB Ethics for Collaboration and Tele-Health
Company Name: The Center for Autism Treatment
Company URL: www.centerautismtreatment.org
Ability to Contribute: Tamara Kasper, MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA has practiced for nearly 30 years, specializing in treatment of children with autism. She has devoted her career to identifying and developing effective treatments to promote functional communication and social interaction.
Name: Nicole Postma
Role / Credential: MS, BCBA
Special Learning’s Designation: Panelist for Ethics Code in Action: Ethics of Medicaid Fraud
Company Name: Florida Institute of Technology
Company URL: www.fit.edu
Ability to Contribute: During a career that spans nearly 10 years Nicki has worked in diverse settings that includes clinic, school, outpatient and foster care.
Name: Jon S. Bailey
Role / Credential: PhD, BCBA-D
Special Learning’s Designation: World’s Foremost Expert on Ethics in the field of Behavior Analysis
Company Name: Florida Association for Behavior Analysis
Company URL: www.fabaworld.org
Ability to Contribute: Dr. Bailey is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. He is Secretary/Treasurer and Media Coordinator of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, which he founded in 1980.
Name: Michele Silcox
Role / Credential: CEO & Owner of ABA Billing
Special Learning’s Designation: Panelist for Ethics Code in Action: Ethics of Medicaid Fraud
Company Name: ABA Billing
Company URL: www.ababilling.net
Ability to Contribute: Michele Silcox, with her 25 year career in Accounting, quickly learned that the basic principles of Accounting apply across all industries.
Name: Jennifer Rumfola
Role / Credential: MA, CCC/SLP, BCBA/LBA
Special Learning’s Designation: Panelist for Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Company Name: Daemen College
Company URL: www.daemen.edu
Ability to Contribute: Jennifer Rumfola is a dually credentialed professional, licensed and certified as a Speech Language Pathologist and Behavior Analyst (BCBA).
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Parent Waitlist Program
November 02, 2023 | 12pm-1pm PDT
Being an RBT for me was extremely fun because where were you going to find a place where you can be completely silly without having to worry what people thought about you? This was the only job that made me feel like I could make a dramatic difference while being myself.
I also liked to be surrounded by people that had the same goals of wanting to help kids and the teamwork made the job much easier and more enjoyable.
Change and progress was the ultimate goal for our kiddos. The early intervention program was seriously only a miracle because I saw changes in the kiddos that from day one, you wouldn’t even recognize who they were.
Changes from being able to utter 3-4 words where they can only make a syllable from when they started, the behavior decreases in which kiddo that used to engage in 30-40 0 self-harm to only half, learning how to wait during games, table work where they use to swipe and drop to the floor if they had to.
My favorite was when the parents would tell us what amazing progress they were making at home. I used to tear up and felt for these parents so much because it was already difficult for them and now, they can trust and rely on ABA and the therapists knowing their goal was ours.
By Emma Rogers, BA, RBT
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