October 10, 2024 @ 8:30 – 11:30 am
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Conference: 8:30 – 11:30 am
Attend In Person or Via behavioral live
Grandview Farm
55 Center St.
Burlington, MA 01803
Hosted by LABBB Collaborative
SpeakerS
Description
Join LSGurdin Consulting for their kick-off CE event for the 2024-25 school year! Behavior analysts are invited to join us online live, on-demand later, or in-person in Eastern Massachusetts for a live event featuring Dr. Kimberly Ho and Lisa Gurdin. This is your chance to become part of a vibrant professional learning community of like-minded behavior analysts dedicated to moving the field forward. We will have time to network, share resources, and discuss important topics relevant to our work as behavior analysts in schools. Dr. Ho will talk about neurodiversity-affirming approaches in ABA and Lisa Gurdin will highlight 5 essential skills (compassion, collaboration, communication, cultural responsiveness, & contextual fit) for today’s school BCBAs. This is a must-attend event! Participants will be eligible for 2 Ethics CEs through LSGurdin Consulting and may attend live, virtually or on-demand attendance to the formal presentations. Both presentations will be available for on-demand CEs.
About the SpeakerS
For over 20 years, Lisa Gurdin (she/her) has been working with students, families, and school-based professionals with students from preschool to age 22 with a range of special needs and complex profiles. Ms. Gurdin supports educational professionals through consultation, student evaluations, and staff training. She works collaboratively with parents and school professionals to facilitate integrated supports across settings thereby maximizing behavior change and skill development. Ms. Gurdin also provides parent coaching to help parents implement behavioral strategies to improve behavior, encourage independence, and build stronger family relationships. Prior to starting her own private practice, she worked as the Clinical Coordinator for LABBB Collaborative in Massachusetts. In this role, she supervised a team of BCBAs, provided clinical oversight, managed home-based programming, consulted with school teams on complex cases in area school districts, conducted staff trainings, and provided ongoing consultation to classrooms across the collaborative. Ms. Gurdin is also a Part-Time Lecturer at Northeastern University. Before becoming an ACE Provider, she was the ACE Coordinator for the BCBA Roundtable at EDCO Collaborative in Massachusetts. As an ACE Provider, she coordinates and presents continuing education workshops for local school-based behavior analysts. When she is not working, she is taking care of her three children, ages 19, 17, and 13, and two dogs.
Dr. Kimberly Ho (she/her) is a speech-language pathologist who serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Northeastern University. She holds a certificate of clinical competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. She received her doctorate in speech-language pathology with an emphasis on severe disabilities, AAC, and a cognate in family systems therapy in 2000 from Purdue University. She has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in AAC, Autism, speech-language pathology, and severe disabilities at Purdue University, Northeastern University, University of Rhode Island, and Boston University. She has served individuals with little or no functional speech for over 24 years. She currently supervises graduate speech-language pathology students during assessment and intervention with autistic individuals with little or no functional speech. Dr. Ho has published three articles and one abstract in peer-reviewed professional journals related to AAC and severe disabilities. She has presented at 18 state, national, and international conferences. She received the Speech and Language Pathologist of the Year Award in 2016 from the Speech and Language Network. Dr. Ho supervised a qualitative study of the health protocols for residential summer camps for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Dr. Ho is the primary investigator for a study on the effect of differential reinforcement, echoic prompting, and a speech generating device (SGD) on vocalizations of an autistic adult. She has served as dissertation chair for a study in 2021, Identifying Barriers to Successful Implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in a Southern Metropolitan School District and for a study in 2019, Improving Social and Pragmatic Skills in Adolescents Diagnosed with ASD.
About LSGurdin Consulting CE Program
LSGurdin Consulting is an ACE Provider with an on-demand library on professional development topics including ABA and mental health, social validity, mindfulness, cultural humility, compassionate school ABA, neurodiversity, assent-based treatment, and ABA superpowers. Each event is presented live and also offered on-demand through Behavior Live.
About LSGurdin Consulting
LSGurdin Consulting also offers behavioral consultation to parents and school teams, school and home assessments, staff training and professional development workshops, educational consultation, and program evaluations.
Membership Information
Most MPY webinars are available ONLY to current staff from member districts and organizations. Public school memberships include police and fire personnel. Former and retired employees and members of committees, including but not limited to, PTO/PTA, PAC, School Improvement Councils, Health Councils, Drug/Alcohol Councils, and school volunteers, are not considered MPY members.
Event Cancellation Policy
This program is being offered in partnership with LSGurdin Consulting. You will be receiving an email with instructions on how to view the training on Behavior Live. All cancellations or request for information should be directed to Lisa Gurdin at lsgurdin@lsgurdinconsulting.com.
This program is open to all MPY members. PDPs and CEUs are not being offered. BCBAs are eligible to receive CEs through LSGurdin Consulting.