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Shaunessy Egan, MS, BCBA
Ms. Egan is a result oriented professional with five years experience
working with children with autism and those with academic, language,
and behavioral challenges. She is a board certified Behavior Analyst
and a certified severe special education teacher. Ms. Egan provides
direct instruction to individuals with ASD, performs evaluations,
monitors behavior and discrete trial programs, creates functional
curriculum, and consults to school systems, organizations, and families.
Shaunessy is proficient in various assessment tools such
as:
- Functional Analysis of Behavior Assessments (FBA),
- The Assessment
of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS-R), and
- The Verbal Behavior
Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP).
While working towards
her Master’s Degree for Simmons College in Behavioral Education,
Shaunessy worked as a classroom teacher for preschool and elementary
students with ASD. Upon completion of her graduate studies, she worked
for the Carbone Clinic in New York designing curriculum, providing
trainings, and developing behavior reduction plans utilizing the
principles of Applied Behavior Analysis, with an emphasis on using
B.F. Skinner’s behavioral classification of language (Verbal
Behavior) as a conceptual guide for teaching language to children.
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