The Child Autism UK team

At Child Autism UK, our number one resource is our team of passionate and committed staff.

CEO

Suzy Yardley, BCBA

Suzy has an MSc in Behaviour Analysis, and is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA). She has been an ABA based practitioner for 18 years, and again has worked with children in every year from Nursery to 6^th Form, and has a solid knowledge of the National Curriculum, specialising in the Early Years to Key Stage 3.

 

Clinical Manager

All of the programmes we run are over seen by our Clinical Manager.

 Claire Cotterill, BCBA

Claire has an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis, and has been a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) since 2010. She has been an ABA based practitioner since 1998 and has worked with children of all ages and into early adulthood. Claire joined the charity in 2004 as a case manager and become a senior case manager in 2011.

As well as helping to support the clinical services generally, Claire also takes a key role in many of the projects for instance organizing grant-specified training, and ensuring Vinelands, VB-Mapps and other measures are rigorously collected.

 

Research Director

 

Kirsty originally trained as a Learning Disabilities nurse, has a degree in Psychology, and has a MEd in Special Education (Autism) from Birmingham University, and is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA). Kirsty has been an ABA based practitioner for 29 years, and has worked with children in every year from Nursery to 6^th Form, and has a solid knowledge of the National Curriculum, specialising in the Early Years to Key Stage 3.

Senior Case Manager

Sarah Martin

Case Managers

All case managers have extensive training and experience of working with families and schools to design effective teaching and behaviour support strategies, in order to help each child reach their potential. In addition, all have experience running Vinelands and VB-Mapp assessments, creating IEP goals, writing reports for Annual Reviews and Tribunals, and running other services such as training talks.

The team meet regularly for ongoing training and sharing of ideas, and we hold 6 weekly case conferences. So each family or school is actually getting the benefit of the whole team’s experience and knowledge! In addition to in-house training, staff also attend conferences and external training to ensure everyone’s clinical practice is kept right up to date.

Our case managers covering the majority of the UK:

Rebecca Ayton                                            Kim James

(Conwy)                                                      (Redditch)

 

 

Jennie Kidney                                              Sarah Martin

(Stockwell, London)                                    (Huddersfield)

 

 

Katharine Moon                                           Paula Osorio

(Bicester)                                                     (Isleworth, London)