This position is grant funded, and continuation of this position is contingent upon continued grant funding.
This position coordinates and develops three primary activities: performing consultations with
school personnel, providing professional development for school personnel, and by creating and
providing resources and expertise to school personnel. This role manages all aspects of Project
ACCESS programs in the field, working with a broad spectrum of public-school personnel
including teachers, administrators, related service providers, and para-educators. Specifically,
they develop instructional materials and plans and conducts in-person professional development
workshops, asynchronous online workshops, synchronous web conferencing workshops, and
provides in-classroom coaching for school-based multidisciplinary teams who serve students
with autism or related developmental disabilities. The ARS-BCBA is responsible for consulting
with and training school-based multidisciplinary teams in assessment of students who present
with autism spectrum disorder behaviors or characteristics to determine eligibility for special
education services. Additionally, this position consults with and trains school-based
multidisciplinary teams to conduct assessments in areas of academics, functional skills, social
skills, and language skills and helps school-based multidisciplinary teams develop appropriate
programming based on these assessments, in addition to consulting and training school-based
multidisciplinary teams to utilize functional behavior assessment to assess behaviors that may be
interfering with a student’s learning and independence and helps school-based multidisciplinary
teams develop a behavior support plan based on assessment results.
