Kate Pearson

Dedicated Board Certified Behavior Analyst with strong background in providing high quality ABA services to children and families across Rhode Island. Experience in both in-home and clinic based behavior interventions with children age 2-7 diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental delays. Additional experience working with comorbid and medically complex cases including ADHD, Rett Syndrome, and Turner Syndrome. Committed to being an active and engaged member of a clinical team and integrating compassionate, assent based care into daily practice.

• BCBA
• LBA

• COVID-19 and Technology in Action: Unique Engagement Strategies for Nurse Educators, Northeast Multistate Division Approved Provider Quarterly Meeting, April 2021
• RI Early Intervention Programs: Are child outcomes validity and reliability reported?, 1st Annual University of Rhode Island College of Human Science and Services Research Night, Kingston, RI, May 2013

• Co-Investigator, Master's Thesis Research, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Rhode Island, 2012, 2013, Under the supervision of my advisor, Jaime Dice, I used the National Center for Education Statistics Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) dataset to analyze the relationship between attachment status and self-regulation skills in preschoolers. This project required planning and organizing my research methodology, conducting the analyses using SPSS, reviewing my results and defending my results to my thesis committee.
• Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Rhode Island, 2011, 2013, During my graduate assistantship at the University of Rhode Island, I was assigned to assist both Drs. Sue Adams and Barbara Newman with research and teaching undergraduate courses. Duties included collecting and grading term papers, tracking attendance, reviewing online discussion boards, organizing group projects, and occasional guest lecturing.
• Co-Investigator, Honors Thesis Research, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, 2010, 2011, Under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Reed at East Carolina University, I designed a research study to measure the relationship between children's' Socioeconomic Status and survival memory skills. My research included direct contact with children ages 8-11 in Greenville, North Carolina. With IRB approval, I collected survey data from low and high SES families and used a computer based word memory task to determine survival memory skills.

• Renee Randol MA, BCBA, LBA, rrandol@navigatebehaviors.com
• Jordan Miranda Scott, MS, BCBA, LBA, jscott@navigatebehaviors.com
• Kelley Linden, MA, Sp.Ed, BCBA, LBA, klinden@navigatebehaviors.com

• Licensed Behavior Analyst
• Mandt & CPR certified
• Trained in Big 6+6 Functional Motor Skill Curriculum

Data collection systems - ReThink, Chartlytics

Technology - Proloquo2Go, TouchChat, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook