Holly Almon-Morris is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Florida State University, and her Master's degree in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas. In her Master's Degree program, Holly specialized in the behavior analytic treatment of autism. Her areas of research have focused on staff training procedures, precision teaching, program development, observation and measurement systems, and social and play skills for persons with autism and other special needs. Her current areas of interest include pragmatic language development and programming, teaching appropriate assent withdrawal/self-advocacy skills to children with autism, instructional design, programming for non-vocal students using speech-generating devices, and designing functional assessments/analyses and behavior support plans.

Holly has enjoyed working with children with autism and related disabilities since 1996. She has served as an instructor and data analyst at the Martin C. Barrel School in Levittown, New York, a zone leader at the Dallas/Fort Worth Center for Autism, and a precision teaching instructor at the FEAT of Washington Summer Academic Program. She has also served as a teaching fellow for behavior analysis classes at the University of North Texas, and as a representative for Behavior Analysis Technology Support Systems, which focused on teacher training and implementation of functional analyses in public schools.

In 2002, during her last year of graduate school in Texas, Holly joined O.R.L.’s staff (formerly Fabrizio/Moors Consulting) as a Program Manager. She moved to the state of Washington to serve as a Consultant/Program Manager in June of 2003.

Holly has presented her applied work with children with autism since 2002 at the local, state, and national levels at such professional conferences as the Association for Behavior Analysis, the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis, and the International Precision Teaching Conferences. She has served as a member of the Peer Review Committee at the University of North Texas, and is currently a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis, the Standard Celeration Society, and the Association for Behavior Analysis Autism Special Interest Group.

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