Marlen Carreto Jimenez
Spring Valley,CA
Summary
Dynamic Behavior Technician with proven expertise in intervention management and exceptional communication skills, honed at ABS Kids. Excelled in implementing behavior treatment through social play, significantly enhancing patient interpersonal abilities. Demonstrated leadership in crisis management, utilizing evidence-based practices to transition children from nonverbal to verbal communication, underscoring a commitment to patient progress and caregiver collaboration.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Behavior Technician
ABS Kids
San Diego , CA
03.2024 - Current
- Encouraged patients to develop interpersonal skills and engage in social interactions or other therapeutic activities.
- Provide social play as a naturalistic form of teaching children with autism to overcome milestones set for the child.
- Record data on targets for the child to work on changing behaviors to thrive.
- Communicate with caregivers about the child's progress, and ways therapy can be implemented at home.
- Find children's reinforcers to get them motivated to learn to mand, provide prompting when needed, and remember that every child is different.
- Provide feedback to the BCBA so children can make progress, having the child go from nonverbal to verbal, and communicate with parents.
- Teach children social skills and ways to interact with peers, learning to respect peers' personal space and communicate between peers their needs, and use their words to let others know how they feel instead of interacting in challenging behaviors.
- Provide alternatives to elopement behaviors from occurring, teaching safety commands to know when being in public.
- Provided crisis management when needed by utilizing de-escalation techniques such as redirection or calming strategies.
- Implemented evidence-based practices such as discrete trial teaching and natural environment teaching.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Human Development
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA06-2024
Skills
- Behavior treatment implemented in social play
- Intervention management
- Report writing
- Conflict resolution
- Sensory integration support
- Group instruction techniques
- Communication skills
- leadership
- bilingual
- clinical notes
Languages
English
Professional
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Certification
- CPR certified
Timeline
Behavior Technician
ABS Kids
03.2024 - Current
Bachelor of Arts - Human Development
University of California San Diego
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