Natalie Stafford - Program Supervisor

Natalie Stafford, an Inclusive Education & Community Partnership (IECP) program supervisor, possesses a Masters degree in Early Childhood Special Education from the California State University Northridge (CSUN) and a Bachelors degree in psychology from the Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (LMU).  Natalie has experience and a passion for providing one to one behavioral therapy as well as developing and supervising behavior intervention and social play programs for children with autism within private residences, clinics, schools, and community settings. She has loved working with children with special needs since 1999 and strives to highlight children’s strengths as she supports inclusion of children of all abilities. In 2006, Natalie developed a staff training DVD visually depicting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM IV) demonstrating how autism affects play and how to support children with autism on play dates and during recess with typically developing peers. Natalie lectures, provides workshops and in-services to IECP staff, Non Public Agencies (NPA) agencies, school districts such as ABC Unified, Los Angeles Unified, and Tri-County Area, as well as to regional centers such as Harbor, Lanternman and Tri-county.  Natalie has also been a guest classroom speaker at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), CSUN, LMU and at Santa Monica City College. Further, Natalie has presented at the Antelope Valley Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) 2007 & 2008 conferences; California Association for Behavior Analysis (CalABA) 2008, 2009 & 2010 conferences; HEAD START’s 2009 & 2010 transition to kindergarten conferences; provided workshops at Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) conferences in both 2009 & 2010. One workshop was entitled, “A Step-by-Step Guide: Assessing, Designing, and Implementing Effective Behavior Plans” while another was entitled “Effective Behavior Plans: Assessment, Design, and Implementation.” In February of 2010, she presented twice at CalABA. Her favorite symposium was entitled, “Facilitating Social Interactions across the Ages: Using Perseverative Behaviors and Typical Peer Models to Increase Social Behavior of Young Children with Autism.” Lastly, she was also one of the participants to provide an invited workshop by the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts (APBA) entitled, “Writing, Implementing, and Evaluating Effective and Ethical Behavior Intervention Plans.” 

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