Julie Sayers
ABA Supervisor.
I have worked in ABA since 2005, and have been a supervisor for over ten years.
Before that I supported adults with learning difficulties in a residential care setting, and managed a childcare nursery for nine years. In 2005 a parent approached me to tutor their child with autism. I attended the initial two day workshop, started tutoring, and once I saw the progress children and young adults could make I never looked back.
Since then I have worked alongside many case managers and experienced tutors, and trained a good number myself. I stay closely involved in the programmes I oversee, and I include parents, siblings and other family members in the teaching wherever I can.
Registration
UK-SBA member no. 101340. Registered on the UK Society for Behaviour Analysis register, accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. What this means.
What a supervisor does
As a supervisor I oversee programmes and the tutors delivering them, working under the clinical direction of a Consultant Behaviour Analyst. That means regular sessions with the family, in person or by video call, training whoever is running the teaching, reviewing how targets are going, and adjusting what is not working.
Supervisor sessions are charged at a lower rate than consultant visits, so for some families a programme overseen by a supervisor, with consultant input where it is needed, makes a programme affordable that otherwise would not be.
"Julie's hands-on support, fantastic problem-solving skills, and wealth of knowledge about autism have proven invaluable over the years. I can't recommend Julie enough."
Parent, home programme. Feedback requested after our work together ended.Training
- School shadowing – Child Autism UK
- Theory of mind – Child Autism UK
- Autism, Asperger's syndrome and semantic pragmatic disorder – Terry Gilligan