Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

[Guest guest]

Have you tried posting this at your local college? I get great people from the local colleges in my area. Trina 

 

Hi,

 

I’m looking for an ABA therapist for my 7 year old son with autism.  8 hours per week. 

No experience necessary, will train you.  Must be reliable, fun, flexible, patient. 

 

Thanks,

Marilyn Arnold

marilyna@...

 

[Guest guest]

Hey Trina,

I haven’t done that. Thanks for suggesting it. Have you found that they stay long term or do they turn over a lot? That is what worries me, because there’s so much training involved before they are good therapists.

Thanks!

Marilyn

From: Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:38 PM

To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

Subject: Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

Have you tried posting this at your local college? I get great people from the local colleges in my area. Trina

[Guest guest]

I like to hire juniors then they typically stay two years at least. When you hire older people I have found the turn over rate to be higher due to children issues, family issues etc. The highest turnover rate has been with graduating seniors since they typically are highly trained and with degrees in desirable fields but sometimes they stay with me and do tutoring after work or during their masters study. I had one young lady stay  four years now she's getting her doctorate in child psychiatry at SMU. BTW I stopped doing strict ABA program when i discovered RPM and now integrate both very successfully at school and at home. Best of luck. 

Trina 

 

Hey Trina,

 

I haven’t done that.  Thanks for suggesting it.  Have you found that they stay long term or do they turn over a lot?  That is what worries me, because there’s so much training involved before they are good therapists.

  

Thanks!

Marilyn

 

From: Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:38 PM

To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

Subject: Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

 

Have you tried posting this at your local college? I get great people from the local colleges in my area.  Trina

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Trina! I did post the job at our local junior college. We don’t have a 4 year college anywhere nearby. We live in the boondocks.

I have looked into RPM. I have Soma’s book and we went to HALO once.

Right now, Jay is responding fabulously to his Verbal Behavior ABA program, so I’m kind of focusing on that. May look further into RPM

eventually.

Thanks again

Marilyn

From: Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:19 PM

To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

Subject: Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

I like to hire juniors then they typically stay two years at least. When you hire older people I have found the turn over rate to be higher due to children issues, family issues etc. The highest turnover rate has been with graduating seniors since they typically are highly trained and with degrees in desirable fields but sometimes they stay with me and do tutoring after work or during their masters study. I had one young lady stay four years now she's getting her doctorate in child psychiatry at SMU. BTW I stopped doing strict ABA program when i discovered RPM and now integrate both very successfully at school and at home. Best of luck. Trina

Hey Trina,

I haven’t done that. Thanks for suggesting it. Have you found that they stay long term or do they turn over a lot? That is what worries me, because there’s so much training involved before they are good therapists.

Thanks!

Marilyn

From: Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:38 PM

To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

Subject: Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

Have you tried posting this at your local college? I get great people from the local colleges in my area. Trina

[Guest guest]

I highly recommend you do we use a blended approach. Basically if your child is not doing grade level work your adding rpm into your current program of a responding method might be the key. My son for instance only passed about 70% of the ABBLS and was thought to be on a kinder level in 6th grade, he's a sophomore now. I still don't think he'd pass the ABBLS but he is more verbal now. And Brown University wants him to take summer online classes:)

 

Thanks, Trina!  I did post the job at our local junior college.  We don’t have a 4 year college anywhere nearby.  We live in the boondocks.

I have looked into RPM.  I have Soma’s book and we went to HALO once. 

Right now, Jay is responding fabulously to his Verbal Behavior ABA program, so I’m kind of focusing on that.  May look further into RPM

eventually.

 

Thanks again

Marilyn

 

From: Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:19 PM

To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

Subject: Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

 

I like to hire juniors then they typically stay two years at least. When you hire older people I have found the turn over rate to be higher due to children issues, family issues etc. The highest turnover rate has been with graduating seniors since they typically are highly trained and with degrees in desirable fields but sometimes they stay with me and do tutoring after work or during their masters study. I had one young lady stay  four years now she's getting her doctorate in child psychiatry at SMU. BTW I stopped doing strict ABA program when i discovered RPM and now integrate both very successfully at school and at home. Best of luck.  Trina

 

Hey Trina,

 

I haven’t done that.  Thanks for suggesting it.  Have you found that they stay long term or do they turn over a lot?  That is what worries me, because there’s so much training involved before they are good therapists.

Thanks!

Marilyn

 

From: Sherman

Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:38 PM

To: Texas-Autism-Advocacy

Subject: Re: ABA therapist needed - No experience necessary - Dayton, Texas

 

Have you tried posting this at your local college? I get great people from the local colleges in my area.  Trina