The Plan

Add to Benton County Early Intervention program:

1-2 Paid students to do one-on-one ABA/PRT with Calvin up to 20 hours per week

1-2 Paid students to do one-on-one ABA/PRT with Calvin up to 20 hours per week during the summer

Receive ABA training 3-5 days

Read books in Autism and training autistic children

Revision 1 FEAT of Corvallis:
Goal:

1. To hire and maintain an autism professional with appropriate qualifications, talent, and communication abilities
2. To provide parents with needed guidance from an autism professional & provide training to parents
3. To provide direct one-on-one ABA from autism professional to children. Hours will be minimal in order to keep autism professional up-to-date on each child
4. Assist in hiring and training of therapists
5. To maintain a checkout library of autism/ABA learning materials for parents, therapists, and people involved (books, VHS tapes, CDs, etc)
6. To write grants to continue the program indefinitely or until the state is able to maintain a program approved by parents/providers of children with autism
7. To assist parents with placement
8. To maintain and track FEAT costs within cost-cutting levels
9. To find a way of hooking up with FEAT of Oregon
10. To find a way of receiving state/federal monies for autism professional, materials, and school for placement of children
11. To maintain a website for information
12. To create an atmosphere of education, membership activities , and solidarity

All attempts possible will be made to hire an autism professional with following:

• Speech background (certified or licensed in a state)
• Certified in ABA (from accredited college/university)
• Masters degree in ABA, Special Ed, Early Intervention, Psychology, or related area
• Certified in Structured Teaching from NC
• Minimum of 2 years experience in clinical setting under appropriate doctoral eye
• Ability to work with children, train therapists, train parents, and communicate with all
• Salary of $60k/yr plus state-worker like benefits package