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ABA and Why I can’t Support it
I’ve spent most of my career up until this point working with Board Certified Behavior Analysts and spent time learning the framework on which they operate. In my initial training, I was told extensively of the past horrors of the field of support for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities alongside the past horrors of…
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Disability, Autism, and Neurodiversity
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding Neurodiversity, Autism, and the nature of disability. I’m sure nearly everyone on the internet is now well aware of the “ADHD/Autistic” TikTok stars pushing out misinformation and the great concern surrounding a generation of kids who are “socially pressured” into appearing to…
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Informal Education
In the years since I started my career, I’ve grown to appreciate what I now understand to be a unique perspective compared to a typical professional. My formal education is limited to a Bachelors in Science compared to the Masters or Doctoral level coworkers with whom I shared cases, but what I came to appreciate…
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Practice Makes Permanent
After obtaining my B.S. in psychology I started my career in the realm of support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a paraprofessional in a special education school. I would come to find this school had earned a reputation for accepting students with especially volatile behavior. For just shy of two years I…
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Introduction/ CV
First, I’d like to thank you for visiting this blog. This site will certainly be a work in progress as I learn more about how to build a proper website for my intended business. While I do that, I am starting the process of compiling resources for the various stakeholders in the interest of supporting…