Melissa Sanderford

• Write Treatment Plans
• Done assessments: PDDBI, VB-Mapp, AFLS, ABLS, Vineland, conducted FBA's. and FA's.
• Parent Trainings
• Supervision of RBT's, BT's, and Interns (typically over 10)
• Write goals for programs
• Talked to insurance companies to get plans approved
• Addressed conflict between parents and technicians
• Effectively communicated with parents
• Completed initial intakes
• Training of RBT's/BT's/Interns
• Assisted clients in exploring feelings and understanding behaviors
• Determined clients' risk of self-harm or other dangerous behaviors
• Collaborated with other professionals to coordinate comprehensive care for clients
• Assessed clients' needs to provide appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Supervised meetings with family members to help create support system for clients

• I am currently carrying a caseload and doing intakes across Houston/Dallas/ San Antonio.
• I conduct parent interviews via vineland
• link parent aspirations to programs that are written
• Explain how sessions could/should look like
• Get parents commitment to hours of 20 or more hours per week
• Write and submit treatment plans within 9 days of the IA.
• Talk with insurances when plans go into peer review or make necessary corrections to prevent a peer review.
• Conducted evaluations to help patients develop measurable treatment goals

• Registered to work with children with autism using ABA techniques.
• Notified BCBA immediately of problems that arose.
• Wrote daily notes to explain what skills we worked on, why we worked on those skills, and how the client did throughout the session.
• Implemented program goals written by BCBA and recorded corresponding data on ABA Advantage.
• Assisted clients in learning social, language, and adapted skills.
• Interacted with families and provided detailed but concise summaries of what occurred in sessions.
• Promoted positive interactions with children with Autism by using visual supports, simplifying communication, and utilizing stress scales to turn emotions into concrete concepts.
• Displayed sensitivity to the cultural and linguistic needs of clients and families served.

· Registered to work with children with autism using ABA techniques.

· Notified BCBA's immediately of problems that arose.

· Wrote daily notes to explain what skills we worked on, why we worked on those skills, and how the client did throughout the session.

· Implemented program goals written by the BCBA and recorded corresponding data on Central Reach.

· Assisted clients in learning social, language, and adapted skills.

· Interacted with families and provided a detailed but concise summary of the days session.

· Promoted positive interactions of children with Autism by using visual supports, simplifying communication and utilizing stress scales to turn emotions into concrete concepts.

· Displayed sensitivity to cultural and linguistic needs of clients and families served.

• · Registered to work with children with autism using ABA techniques.
• · Interacted with families during parent trainings to model interventions being implemented with specific client (skill acquisition and behavior reduction).
• · Wrote daily notes to explain what skills we worked on, why we worked on those skills, and how the client did throughout the session.
• · Implemented program goals written by the BCBA and recorded corresponding data.
• · Created graphic representations of data collected during functional analysis. (FA).
• · Wrote protocol for FA and ran each condition of FA.
• · Wrote operational definitions of target behaviors and imputed into Catalyst (with BCBA approval).
• · Wrote behavior intervention plans with BCBA approval.
• · Assisted clients in learning social, language, and adapted skills.