Back by popular demand! This presentation will not be recorded. Entrance to the event will be first come first serve.
Presentation:
The Practical Functional Assessment is a collaborative approach of supporting families and their children to address severe problem behaviour using a skills-based treatment model. This workshop is based on Dr. Greg Hanley’s IISCA (or PFA) and is designed to provide a framework to understand the PFA for parents who wish to learn more about it or pursue it with their BCBA.
Speakers:
Theresa Jouan: Theresa Jouan: As a BCBA (St. Cloud State University) with a Master of Science, Theresa has a passion for collaboratively building strong teams, for mentoring the next generation of consultants, improving the quality of life for families and the individuals she works with and desires to do better for the autistic community. Theresa has worked for individuals with ASD ranging in age from 18 months to 24 years for the last 20 years and enjoys working on goals that are in line with family and student values. Theresa supports families and youth with a variety of learning disabilities with a background that includes support in an ABA teaching home, and both public and private schools. She currently teaches ethics in the ABA-SW program through Surrey College.
Nicole Shallow: Nicole became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in March 2019 with a Masters in Special Education – Concentration in Autism and Developmental Disabilities. She is a Category A - Registered Autism Service Provider (RASP) in British Columbia. She gained experience working with senior behaviour analysts to implement natural environment teaching, developing play-based programming, collaborating with schools and other professionals, providing parent support and training of support staff. Recently, in her private practice, she has become more focused on empowering families to be a part of developing and implementing practical solutions to help improve overall quality of life. Within the scope of applied behaviour analysis, she is most interested in sleep coaching, and providing families with the tools to support their child towards the goal of independent and healthy sleep.
Lizz Wark has worked in the field of ABA for six years. She started providing community support for individuals on the autism spectrum and decided to get more involved in the field. She then started in ABA and fell in love. She went to school and became a Special Education Assistant and worked as an ABA-SEA for three years before deciding she wanted to go further in ABA. She working on the course work towards getting her BCaBA and plan to continue to take a Masters in the next few years to become a BCBA.
Elishia Merryweather is a Board-Certified Assistant Behaviour Analyst (BCaBA) and a certified Professional Crisis Management (PCM) Instructor dedicated to the safe, dignified, and effective treatment of challenging behaviour in children and adults with diverse abilities. She began serving this population in 2009 after many years working with typically developing children. Elishia advocates for her client's rights to freedom of choice and their access to the least restrictive environment possible. Her current practice specializes in the Practical Functional Assessment (PFA / IISCA) and Skills-Based Treatment of Severe Problem Behaviour. She also has expertise in the use of relational frames to develop complex and flexible language repertoires.