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Autism Support Consultancy

autism support consultancy

London

Autism Consultancy Services Ltd is directed by Dr Christos Nikopoulos who is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst® at a Doctoral Level (BCBA-D). His achievements within the science of behaviour analysis as a clinician, a university lecturer, an educator, a consultant, a researcher, and an author in the areas of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), intellectual and other developmental disabilities as well as neurological and behavioural interventions in special education for more than 23 years can be outlined as below: Former Applied Research Representative of the European Association for Behaviour Analysis.(EABA®) European Association for Behaviour Analysis Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Chartered Scientist from the Science Council, UK. Former International Representative of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB®) BACB.com University Lecturer at both undergraduate and postgraduate (i.e., MSc and PhD) levels for more than 11 years at a Research-Incentive University in London, UK. External Examiner for MSc Autism and related conditions at Swansea University (2013-2019). Swansea University Expert reviewer of the European Union and for a number of peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders etc.) as well as for governmental agencies (e.g., NIHR, ESRC, EPSRC, HSC R&D, & HEA). Co-author of 2 books, book chapters, bookelts as well as of a number of articles published in peer-reviewed International journals. Representative Senior ABA consultant for several families at Tribunals. Leader of the Monorodi/Athens BACB® Approved Course Sequence (2016-2019). European leader of the Clemson University (USA) /Romanian BACB® Approved Course Sequence since February 2016. Clemson University Leader of University of Zagreb BACB® Approved Course Sequence (2017-2019). Faculty Member of the AF-LPA BCBA/BCaBA 4th Edition Course Sequence, Paris (2015-2016). Supervisor of a few BCaBAs and of a significant number of students who pursue their BCBA or BCaBA accreditation (25+). Keynote speaker and presenter at various conferences (more than 90 presentations at International Conferences worldwide). TRICARE Provider for children with ASD, ages 2-8 years old. Senior Behavioural Consultant for a vast number of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Learning and other developmental difficulties as well as a range of Mental Health conditions. Senior Behavioural Consultant for the design, implementation and ongoing evaluation of home and school-based programmes in the United Kingdom, Russia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, France, Saudi Arabia, India and elsewhere, including provision of specialised training to parents, tutors, teachers or other therapists. Over all these years, Autism Consultancy Services have established an on-going collaboration with numerous Associates across all above countries!

Toe By Toe

toe by toe

4.9(14)

Shipley

Keda spent almost all of her teaching career at one school - Sandal Road Primary School in Baildon, UK. She also almost exclusively taught just one age group, 6-7 year-olds; the age that most children pick up their reading skills. This was to become Keda’s great passion - the teaching of reading. Initially, she was baffled as to why a significant proportion of the children in her classes struggled to pick up basic reading skills. To Keda, they were just as bright as the other children but - for them - reading remained a mysteriously difficult skill. Keda always had a keen and inquisitive mind and this question of why some children had difficulties in learning to read nagged at her. She thought that she had somehow failed these students, so she made an offer to their parents. She asked their permission to teach their children at her home - without charge - at the end of the school day. As a result of this offer, Keda’s house was soon overflowing with struggling readers. Keda even designed an extension to her house to include a custom-built classroom and persuaded her doting husband Albert to build it. For the next 30 years, Keda’s house - literally, just a stone’s throw away from the school where she worked - was full of children. Between 4-5pm every school day she looked for ways to improve their reading skills. Keda's All-Consuming Passion At the time Keda began her research into children’s reading problems, few people had even heard of the term ‘dyslexia’. Keda became fascinated by the condition and her private research soon became an all-consuming obsession. She divided the children into two groups. A control group where conventional methods were used, and her ‘guinea pigs’, where Keda tried anything and everything to see what would work. This painstaking process of trial and error became the genesis of what later came to be known as Toe By Toe. Keda had no idea what was happening in the psychology departments of universities. She simply looked at the reading process and pared it down to the bare essentials necessary to crack the code of this ‘reading thing’. This is also why Toe By Toe is so refreshingly free of jargon and psychological gobbledygook. It certainly wasn’t a ‘quick fix’ process. Only after decades of this meticulous approach did Toe By Toe eventually become the fully functioning system we have now. Keda named the system ‘Toe By Toe’ after a grateful parent commented that she could see how it worked: “Progress by tiny steps – almost one toe at a time…”