Kelly is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has been working with children with autism since 1999. She completed her Master's Degree in Special Education and graduated with her teaching certificate from the University of Washington in early childhood special education in June of 2003. From June until November 2006 Kelly worked with Fabrizio/Moors consulting supervising and designing behavior analytic services for children ages 2-15 years of age. Kelly gained additional experience working with Northwest Behavioral Associates as a Program Manager from 2003-2005. She focused largely on developing programs for children with moderate to higher language skills. In more recent years, she has worked on designing programs for non-vocal students with a range of skills, utilizing speech-generating devices. Kelly currently is a full-partner of and Clinical Services Supervisor for the Organization for Research and Learning (O.R.L).
Kelly's classroom experience includes a year and a half in an early intervention program for toddlers at the Experimental Education Unit and four years teaching the third-through-sixth-grade class for the Families for Effective Autism Treatment (FEAT) Summer Academic Program in 2002, 2004, 2004, and 2005 where she delivered fluency based instruction in a classroom setting. In 2006, Kelly acted as Assistant Director and in 2007 Co-Director for FEAT’s Summer Academic Program.
Kelly's professional membership and participation have included presentations at conferences including the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) 2002-2007 and the International Precision Teaching Conference 2003-2007. Kelly maintains full memberships in both The Standard Celeration Society and The Association for Behavior Analysis and has published her applied work with children with autism in the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration and the Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis.
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