Kathleen Wood

• Oversee client treatment from assessment through care delivery
• Created and organized a monthly group parent training to teach ABA terminology and establish a supportive community for client's families
• Provides quality supervision to Behavior Technicians
• Solicit feedback from RBTs to establish a teamwork mindset
• Design positive reinforcement systems that reward desired behaviors and teach replacement strategies for interfering behaviors
• Develop and implement behavior plans tailored to individual client needs.

• Created system to track due dates of behavior intervention plans for Medicaid to ensure company receives reimbursement

• Communicates and provides documentation to insurance companies across multiple regions

• Responds to insurance pends in timely manner to avoid the cancellation of clients ability to receive services

• Organizes and schedules all employees for Indian River County and Port Saint Lucie County Behavior Analysis clinics

• Maintains insurance documentation for company’s BCBAs to streamline communication between analysts and insurance companies

• Utilized Organized Behavior Management (OBM) techniques to design a system to target employee retention and measure employee satisfaction weekly, averaging 4.5 out of 5 rating
• Created a weekly self-monitoring checklist to ensure 100% job completion. This checklist was embraced and became utilized company-wide including the Director, BCBAs and RBTs within the region.
• Assisted in the development of a tool that allowed for reciprocal feedback that increased both positive and constructive feedback between supervisors and supervises/RBTs
• Scheduled 12 employees and 27 clients on a weekly basis for the region
• Responsible for creating and implementing employee improvement plans as documentation and a visual action plan to elevate employee performance
• Transformed and revitalized a cleaning and inventory system that employees used to communicate ABA center's need efficiently.
• Collaborated with leadership team to set company goals and outline steps to achieve objectives

• Provided in home, school, and center based services
• Coached parents, caregivers and teachers on the implementation of plans across multiple settings
• Devised and presented trainings to paraprofessionals to disseminate various topics in ABA
• Created detailed plans that included individualized skill acquisition goals, reduction behavior programming, life and social skills useful for everyday activities within the naturalistic environment to promote generalization
• Completed assessments and reassessments within specified deadlines
• Consulted on outside cases using personal expertise to increase teamwork and provide quality and ethical services to clients
• Delivered weekly supervision to RBTs on the implementation of protocols to ensure treatment fidelity
• Met with public schools to discuss client's IEP goals

• Built and strengthened positive relationships with students, parents and teaching staff
• Mentored and assisted new teachers with assignment development, special projects and tests to promote a collaborative work environment
• Differentiated instruction according to student skill level
• Scheduled and held parent-teacher conferences to keep parents up-to-date on children's academic performance
• Established rules and expectations for behavior and procedures to maintain structure and classroom management among students
• Met with administration and MTSS team to discuss individual student goals
• Enhanced lessons with the use of various technology tools to address common core goals and increase student engagement (smart board technology, tablets and computers)
• Promoted positive classroom environment and critical thinking by facilitating discussions among students