Katharine Anne Roberts
Aurora
Summary
Highly motivated Clinical Director delivering positive client outcomes, creative solutions to issues, and great interaction with staff, clients, and other stakeholders. Knowledgeable, data-driven clinician with a diverse skill set. Ready for a position involving disseminating behavior analysis and teaching student analysts to assist with their future careers.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Regional Clinical Director
ABA Services of Colorado
Englewood
07.2019 - Current
- Provide clinical support and supervision to clients and staff ranging from Behavior Technicians to other BCBAs
- Create content for furthering education for BCBAs
- Conduct family education sessions and community outreach to disseminate information on the behavior analysis field
- Assist in tracking field work for student analysts
- Interview and review applicants for positions within the company
- Aggregate, create and submit insurance authorizations to various insurance companies
Lead Registered Behavior Technician / Assistant Supervisor
Pinnacle Autism Therapy
Scottsdale
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Created behavior intervention plans
- Conducted all-staff meetings
- Created content for BCBA meetings
- OBM Project – created new Catalyst protocol for all staff members
- Provide ABA-based therapy to both children and adolescents with ASD
- Provided ACT therapy to child with Bipolar Disorder and PTSD
- Met with RBTs to discuss techniques and goals in place for clients
- Conducted parent training sessions
Kindergarten Readiness Program TA
Scottsdale Children’s Institute
Scottsdale
09.2017 - 03.2018
- Apply principles of behavior to develop, implement and monitor individualized plans for students.
- Provide ABA-based therapy to children (ages 3-6) with developmental disabilities
- Ran a trial based functional analysis on clients
- Created goals and targets for clients
- Conducted PEAK assessment with the supervision of my supervisor
- Conducted IOA with supervisor on fidelity of RBTs
Reporter
VOX Magazine
Columbia
01.2017 - 05.2017
- Create content, both digitally and for print, for the Women’s Issue.
- Covered Planned Parenthood escorts for a piece of the life of an escort.
Community Outreach member
01.2016 - 05.2016
- Worked with analytics, social media, and community outreach
- Created a new segment of the online newspaper called “Faith Forms”
- “Man on the street” style reporting
Reporter
Columbia Missourian
Columbia
09.2015 - 12.2015
- Wrote for the K-12 education beat.
- Covered protests and marches that occurred on campus during the fall semester of 2015.
- Produced content that was picked up by the AP.
- Produced content that appeared in USA Today, The Guardian and ABC.
- The Columbia Missourian was awarded AP Member of the Year in 2015.
Education
Master of Science - Applied Behavior Analysis
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ01.2019
Bachelor of Journalism - Multicultural Studies, Psychology Minor
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO01.2017
Skills
- Clinical supervision
- Behavior intervention plans
- Insurance authorization
- Staff training
- Community outreach
- Data analysis
- Program development
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Staff development
- Shift scheduling
Certification
- Behavior Analyst Certification Board
- 2019-Present
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- 8-hour supervision course completed
References
References available upon request.
Affiliations
- Professional
- Arizona Association for Behavior Analysis
- Association for Behavior Analysis International
- Colorado Association for Behavior Analysis
- University of Missouri
- Mizzou Psychology Club
- Society of Professional Journalists
- National Society of Collegiate Scholars
- Mizzou Collegiate Scholars
- Golden Key International Honors Society
Publications
- Arizona State University
- Tempe, AZ
- 08/2018 – 5/2019
- Organizational Behavior Management – Increase converting behavior
- Conducted a project to increase staff converting behaviors for billable hours
- Incorporated components of negative and positive reinforcement
- 08/2018 – 05/2019
- Using an alternating treatment design to compare three antecedent conditions and their effects on academic engagement and stereotypy on children diagnosed with ASD.
- University of Missouri
- Columbia, MO
- 09/2015-05/2017
- Research Assistant with Dr. Ashley Groh
- Department of Developmental Psychology – The Family & Child Development Lab
- Ran sessions with infants and parents.
- Coded data from video tapes of sessions.
- Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Research Assistant under Prof. Robert Becklen
- Ramapo, NJ
- 05/2015-08/2015
- Organized and summarized Hans Wallach’s historical data and belongings.
- Condensed the information and submitted it to Akron, Ohio to be put on display.
- Editorial Reviews
- The Effects of Vocational Interest on Study Results: Student Person – Environment Fit and Program Interest Diversity
- Practical Functional Assessment: A Replication and Extension with a Child Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Association for Behavioral Analysis International Conference
- 5/2019
- Presenting paper on Decreasing Motor Stereotypy Using Antecedent Exercise
- Four Corners 2019 Conference
- 3/2019
- Poster Session: Decreasing Motor Stereotypy Using Antecedent Exercise
Timeline
Regional Clinical Director
ABA Services of Colorado
07.2019 - Current
Lead Registered Behavior Technician / Assistant Supervisor
Pinnacle Autism Therapy
06.2018 - 05.2019
Kindergarten Readiness Program TA
Scottsdale Children’s Institute
09.2017 - 03.2018
Reporter
VOX Magazine
01.2017 - 05.2017
Community Outreach member
01.2016 - 05.2016
Reporter
Columbia Missourian
09.2015 - 12.2015
Master of Science - Applied Behavior Analysis
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Journalism - Multicultural Studies, Psychology Minor
University of Missouri