AUTISM THERAPISTS AND SKILLS TRAINERS

Emaley McCulloch, B.A., BCABA. Honolulu, Hawaii
Emaley found her passion early in life by working for children with autism using methods of Applied Behavior Analysis. She started her career in 1996 and has never stopped learning. She has had the privilege of having amazing mentors in the field of ABA during my years as a behavior therapist such as Marlena Boehm from Autism Partnership, Kathleen Kitlowski Ph.D., and Dara Michalski from Redwood Learning Center. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Brigham Young University. She moved to Hawaii in 2002 and worked as an Autism Consultant for several local companies. She trained and supervised skills trainers, assisted in the IEP development process, and composed treatment plans for student’s with autism and related disorders.

In 2004 she assumed the role as the Program Supervisor at Pacific Autism Center. Given a diverse group of clients, her responsibilities included supervision of all ABA programs, supervising and training all ABA therapists, collaborating with schools, speech therapists and OTs. She provided supervision and consultation as well as, directed all programs at PAC including social skills classes, integrated preschool program, summer programs and an ABA classroom. Her other responsibilities included creating and developing curriculum and data systems for individual children. Emaley has had the amazing opportunity to work with Dr. Carol Nowak Ph.D. in doing comprehensive assessments and diagnosis. She was able to consult and train families and professionals in Japan over the course of 2 years, through PAC’s sister program Pacific Learning Center.

She is currently a grad student in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii and has studied Applied Behavior Analysis through the University of North Texas. Emaley is scheduled to graduate with her M.Ed. in Spring of 2010. She received her Board Certification as a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCABA) in November 2008.

Emaley loves being in this field because it allows her interact with the most amazing people, including the children she has served. She has seen how children and families can be transformed by quality intensive behavioral programs. Because her own two children are so precious to her, she also understands how important it is for a parent to have nothing but the best. She is grateful to now work for ABC Group, utilizing the Verbal Behavior approach to ABA, and is proud that ABC Group is committed to bringing quality ABA programming to their learners!

Heather A. Law ABA Program Consultant - Virginia Beach VA

Heather found her passion and career in 1996 where she began working with children with autism using methods of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).

She has had the privilege of having amazing mentors in the field of ABA during her years as a behavior therapist, such as Mary Vesloski, BCBA, Advance, Inc, Matt Bowman, Rutgers Autism Project and Cherish Richards, BCBA. She has attended hundreds of conferences and workshops in the field and has worked with a wide array of children on the spectrum, from early intervention to adolescence.

With over 10 years of experience in the application of ABA and VB, she has worked as an Autism / Verbal Behavior consultant with a number of school districts and families in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. She closely follows the work of Mark Sundberg, and has helped collect field testing data to support his research using VB-MAPP.

In the fall of 2008, she began traveling to Virginia Beach, Virginia to help families setup Verbal Behavior programs and has recently relocated to the Virginia Beach area. She has trained and supervised skills trainers, tutors, therapists, and has assisted in the IEP development process, and composed treatment plans for student’s with autism and related disorders.

She is currently completing her BA in Psychology and working towards her Board Certification in Applied Behavior Analysis which she plans on completing by 2010.

She is grateful to now work for ABC Group, utilizing the Verbal Behavior approach to ABA, and is proud that ABC Group is committed to bringing quality AUTISM ABA programming to their learners in the Virginia Beach, Norfolk Virginia and surrounding areas in Virginia!