Brooke Anderson

Implement and monitor student behavioral and instructional support plans, assist teachers with interventions and strategies, and support students in achieving social, emotional, and behavioral goals through behavioral strategies like positive reinforcement and redirection. Utilizes de-escalation and crisis minimization techniques on a daily basis in order to maintain the safety of students and colleagues. Detailed documentation, data recording, and input.

Identify maladaptive behaviors by conducting data analysis and targeted observation of behaviors, triggers, and factors. Create and integrate individualized behavior success plans that aim to improve the child’s overall well-being and function within their environment. Use evidence-based techniques, like positive reinforcement, priming, and shaping, during direct intervention. Collaborate with parents, teachers, and therapists as partners to ensure consistency across environments. Coach families and teachers on behavioral strategies and possible functions of behavior.

Provide 1:1 Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy to children with intellectual or processing disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder. Facilitate programming to improve individuals' communication, social skills, adaptive living skills, fine and gross motor skills, as well as overall cognition and language through positive reinforcement. Support individuals' mental health by providing self-help skills, de-escalation techniques, and decreasing maladaptive behaviors. Acquire data through active, play-based learning, as well as document findings in a concise yet descriptive manner.