Supporting the autistic
and neurodivergent
community
Meet the Team
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Nicole Shallow, M.Ed, BCBA
FOUNDER & CLINICAL DIRECTOR
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Kirsten MacAdam, M.A., BCBA
BOARD CERTIFIED BEHAVIOR ANALYST
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Sydney Frink, B.A, BCaBA
BOARD CERTIFIED ASSISTANT BEHAVIOR ANALYST
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Emily Newberry, B.A, BCaBA
BOARD CERTIFIED ASSISTANT BEHAVIOR ANALYST
Services We Provide
Family Support
Family support involves many things. This can be from helping support the development of a home team (e.g., connecting with SLPs, OTs, BIs, etc.) to parent coaching to navigating the many systems and service available. We work together to help you understand how your child learns, how they experience their world and how to help them communicate and connect with people in their lives.
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✔ Help guide families to navigate the process from diagnosis to building out a team of support.
✔ Provide parents with the knowledge to empower them to connect and help their child learn skills that are important to them through play and connection.
✔ Resource for accessing resources and help with decision making
✔ Support parents in understanding their child’s needs and how to facilitate communication and self-advocacy
✔ Focus on skills and identifying skills to be taught to help the child achieve their goals.
Home Team Coordination
As the Behavior Analyst on your team, I would support in finding behavior interventionists, connect you with other professionals that may be helpful, design and monitor the programming.
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✔ Extensive experience working collaboratively with behaviour interventionists, respite to create safe, supportive and inclusive working environment
✔ Support parents and contractors in budgeting, scheduling, paperwork and allocating resources.
✔ Ongoing assessment, goal setting and training is provided.
School Support
I love helping parents navigate and advocate within the school system. I enjoy collaborating with school staff in creating a learning environment that works best for my clients. Through education, observations and attending important meetings (e.g., individualized education plan meetings), I can help make sure my client’s voice is heard and at the table when making decisions.
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✔ Support parents in understanding how to most effectively advocate for support at the school level.
✔ Support parents in school meetings (e.g., Individual Education Plan meetings, Safety plans, etc.).
✔ Complete school observations and provide support to the school staff as requested
Sleep Support
As you see on YBG we love Sleep! I specialize in providing sleep support and treatment to autistic and neurodivergent children. Through comprehensive assessment, individualized planning and monitoring we are able to help support you in achieving your sleep dreams!
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✔ Experience supporting families across a variety of sleep struggles, from teaching the child to falling asleep on their own, teaching the child to sleep for longer and more consistently, support in reducing night wakings.
✔ Help parents to understand why their child is not sleeping and come up with a plan that is aligned with their values.
✔ Complete a comprehensive assessment and create an individualized plan
✔ Provide sleep education
✔ Option of virtual night-of support to help guide parents in their decision making. (see sleep options for more details) - we can link updated sleep services.