Who are VBC?
Verbal Behaviour Consultants (VBC) was established by Louise Kadayer, BCABA, gbr Ch Psyc, BPS, ACC, PG Cert ABA in SP Ed., BSc (Hons) Psyc, Behaviour Analyst, Psychologist and Counsellor in 2007 following over eight years in the field. She watched as a close friend had to endure a constant battle between getting the right help for her autistic child and the excessive service fees she was charged for that help. Today, the organisation has grown to become one of the most respected and capable in its field, with over 20 years of combined experience in Verbal Behavioural therapy and other cognitive treatments. Offering a full range of support networks, specialist training, consultations and therapy, VBC provides a comprehensive range of services under one, collective umbrella making it easier for parents, families and carers to relate directly to every aspect of the learner’s development. The collective umbrella of NETwork Interventions has VBC and a sister consultancy, Kadayer counselling and therapy (www.kadayer.co.uk) providing counselling and psychological services.
We have developed this website not only as a portal to a network of support, therapy and help, but as a no-nonsense, jargon-free source of information for parents and carers. For further details on all our services and to discuss your child’s needs in confidence,
contact us direct. We would love to hear your views on how we could improve our site.
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Louise Kadayer, , Behaviour Analyst & Psychologist
Verbal Behaviour Programme Consultant and Consultant Supervisor
Director and Founder
BCBA (cand), BCABA, DPsyc (cand), PG Cert ABA, BSc (Hons) Psyc, Dip Couns
Louise has over nine years of experience in providing Verbal Behaviour intervention services to children, teenagers and adults. A Board Certfied Associate Behavior Analyst, she completed the supervision component of her BCBA through Cherish Twigg, MS, BCBA of Establishing Operations Inc. Louise initially received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology Honours, going on to Post Graduate Studies in both Applied Behaviour Analysis and counselling. She is now pursuing her Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, from which point she will be able to obtain her BCBA-D.
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Based out of the United Kingdom, Louise is the director and consultant supervisor for the NETwork Interventions umbrella which comprises of Verbal Behaviour Consultants and Kadayer Counselling and Therapy. She travels across the globe to service families and provide intensive in house training for therapists and supervisors. Louise has designed a number of intensive and informal workshops, which are now delivered throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe. 2010 will see them presented for the first time in Canada.
As well as learner specific workshops, Louise has had the pleasure of designing a workshop series specifically to teach teenagers and adults with ASD, and has established the first solely Verbal Behaviour training model and consultation service to run exclusively from Australia.
Louise provides specialist consultations to schools and families whose children display challenging behaviours, and whom do not have a formal diagnosis. She has designed a specific workshop for this population, and presents this across the United Kingdom.
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Shelley Brown, Behaviour Analyst
Verbal Behaviour Programme Consultant
BCABA (cand), Dip Behavioural Science, BA Psyc
Shelley is our verbal behaviour consultant here at NETwork Interventions. She has over six years of experience in the field of Autism. In order to develop her knowledge of the most recent research advanced in the field, Shelley has attended numerous workshops from world renowned professionals and has completed her Diploma in Behavioural Science. Shelley will be commencing her MSc schooling in 2010 and is expected to achieve BCABA standing in September 2010.
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Shelley provides consultation services to families and organisations across the globe, with her consultant supervision being provided by Louise Kadayer and Cherish Twigg, BCBA.
Shelley has had the opportunity to work in both one to one and group settings with professionals from various disciplines. She has applied her knowledge and talent to develop the programmes of all learner levels, early through to advanced.
Shelley has a wealth of experience with assessment tools and data collection, with her passion lying in the training and development of parents and professionals in order to optimise the lives of learners with autism and related developmental disorders.
Shelley assists with the presentation and development of a number of NETwork Interventions Verbal Behaviour workshops, as well as the workshops developed for the challenging child and proactive parenting series.
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Charlotte Slater, Behaviour Analyst
Verbal Behaviour Programme Supervisor
BCBA (cand), MSc. Behaviour Analysis, BSc. (Hons) Psychology with Biology
Charlotte has several years’ experience working with children with ASD and their families in the home, mainstream nurseries and schools and SEN schools. Having completed her Masters degree in Behaviour Analysis, Charlotte now receives regular supervision from Board Certified Behaviour Analysts and expects to reach BCBA eligibility herself in late 2010.
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Charlotte has a special interest in the early language acquisition of both typically developing and developmentally delayed children. As part of her undergraduate degree, she carried out independent research to investigate the effects of teaching mimetic imitation skills to children with autism for the development of spontaneous echoic language. Charlotte is passionate about both contributing to, and remaining highly informed on the latest developments in behavioural research, ensuring that her clinical recommendations and programme implementation are always based upon the most up-to-date and relevant evidence.
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Jennifer Booth
Verbal Behaviour Programme Supervisor
BA Criminology and Psychology
Jennifer is our programme supervisor for families in Canada. She has five years of experience working on ABA and VB programmes with children with autism in Australia and Canada. She has worked closely with Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologists and teachers to help guide and enrich children's programming.
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Jennifer is currently working towards completion of her Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Primary Years) at the University of Sunshine Coast. She has also attended many workshops and is committed to ongoing professional development. Jennifer's areas of specialisation is with Early Learners, with a particular interest in Stimulus Stimulus Pairing to bring about initial vocalisations.
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Rachel McGregor
Verbal Behaviour Programme Supervisor
Reg. Psychologist, BSc Psyc, PG Dip Psyc
Rachel has 5 years of ABA and VB experience working with both children and adolescents. She has a passion for helping children at all stages of learning to gain skills and language in the natural environment.
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Rachel has completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology. She is a Registered Psychologist in the state of NSW (Australia). Based out of Europe, Rachel is about to start working towards her BCABA. Rachel has worked with children in a one on one setting and also in group settings in the school environment. Her interests are in training parents to deal with challenging behaviours and language expansion through social interaction.
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Alissa Beath
Verbal Behaviour Therapist
BA (Hons) Psychology
Alissa is our behavioural therapist for families based in Sydney, Australia.
Alissa has her Undergraduate Honours Degree in Psychology and began her PHd at the beginning of 2009. Alissa works in a one to one capacity with our families in Sydney, with her main research interests being in Natural Environment Teaching to teach our children to become conversational.
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Alissa has begun to provide practical training and to work closely with teaching staff to ensure effective teaching strategies, thus ensuring our children, teenagers and adults reach their maximum potential. Alissa also assists with the hands on workshop series which NETwork Interventions deliver.
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Laura Thomas
Verbal Behaviour Therapist
Laura is our behavioural therapist for families based in Surrey, United Kingdom. An incredibly talented and passionate young women, she is the wonderful latest addition to our team.
Laura works in a one to one capacity with our families in Surrey, with her heart being to help families better relate with one another. Laura's focus is to equip parents and extended family members to understand their children's world and to use everyday opportunities to teach language and other skills.
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Laura undergoes rigorous training with our team, continually building on her wealth of experience over the past eight years working with children with autism. In addition to these skills, Laura is passionate in working with young adults with a wide range of developmental, language and behavioural struggles.
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Claire Hellings
Workshop and training Co ordinator
Due to the ever increasing demand for our workshops presented, and after a lot of prayer, Clare jumped into our team. Expanding our services to encompass families who struggle with their children's day to day behaviours at home and in school, but who do not have a specific diagnosis, left Louise and her team less time to concentrate of providing the best possible personal service to our families.
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Based out of Surrey, United Kingdom, Clare performs the marvellous job of coordinating our team, and global workshops and trainings. Now presenting our Pro Active Parenting series, as well as our Verbal Behaviour workshops for individuals with autism and developmental delay, this is no small task. It does, however, allow us to do what we do best: Behaviour Analysis!
Clare has a strong education and career in teaching and childcare, but wanted to move to a position where she could disseminate as much information to families and professionals who are often left struggling and isolated.
Clare is passionate about making a difference to families, and approaches the organisation of our workshops with the conitnual ethos to tailor workshop to each specific group.
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Priya Sharan
MA Clinical Psychology, BA Psychology Clinical Psychologist
Priya is our passionate and driven Clinical Psychologist. Priya is continuing to making significant contributions to the field and we are terribly blessed to have her on board. A member of the British and Indian Psychological Societies, Priya first trained as a Clinical Psychologist through the University of Mumbai. Priya’s dissertation comprised a comparative study on children with traits of ADHD and she has continued to specialize in the field of special needs. Priya’s commitment to the assessment of and psychotherapy for children and parental populations has grown from this research. Her commitment to cognitive behavioural therapy to other populations and issues has come from her initial dissertation on the effect of neuro-linguistic programming.
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Priya has contributed to a number of published research papers and has developed a series or workshops for parents in regards to behavioural problems, communication and positive parenting. Amongst other accolades, Priya was an invited panel member on the Cosmetology and Plastic Surgery Seminar, has been awarded the Best Psychologist of the quarter for reliable and comprehensive psychological services and has received the award for best research project for her Masters dissertation: “Born to Explore: the other side of ADHD”.
Here at NETwork Interventions, Verbal Behaviour Consultants, Priya is responsible for conducting the clinical interviews for our families and the psychological, developmental, projective, cognitive, personality and educational assessments for our learners. Priya reports the results to professionals and parents in our learners’ teams and assists in gaining funding for our programming from local education authorities. She is passionate about telling parents the whole story and assists Louise is developing treatment plans for our learners. Our treatment plans are not based solely on our learners, but on their family’s capacity to carry out these programmes. Priya often gives psychotherapy and counselling sessions to our parents and families to increase this capacity.
Priya is also a member of the team at NETwork Interventions sister company providing counselling, psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to a range of clients from those with depression through to those with more acute critical psychopathologies.
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Sue Sundstrom
Administrative Support
BComm Mktg & Bus Admin
Sue Sundstrom provides much needed administrative support for us at Verbal Behaviour Consultants. After completing her Bachelor of Commerce, Sue has spent years working in various administrative and project management roles. She has a particular interest in working in the field of intervention services for children with speech and other developmental delays, and is determined to provide the best for our families and those looking for help and support.
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Sue is passionate about seeing children fulfil their potential and wherever possible, overcome any limitations they may have which hinder their ability to enjoy and succeed in life. Sue has a strong desire to see families of children with developmental needs be both supported and understood by teachers, therapists and professionals working with their child.
We are all pieces of a jigsaw puzzle here at VBC and would be incomplete without any of us but Sue is, without a doubt, the lynchpin who keeps VBC running smoothly and enables our consultants to do what they do best: consult for families! Her ability to design packages for families, research and management skills are second to none and Louise doesn’t know where she would be without her. Sue manages to achieve all of this on top of being mum to two gorgeous boys, Joel 5, and Caleb, 3 years old, wife to Chris, Sunday School Teacher to lots of little ones and a key player of Sisterhood at Hillsong Church. Wow…..
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Michaela Archer
Psychologist's Asssistant and Personal Assistant
BSc Psyc
Michaela is our newest addition as PA to the team. Michaela is passionate about helping people, and she will be pursuing her qualifications in clinical psychology in the future. She is also well-organised, and is a very dedicated and hard-working individual. These qualities together make a winning combination and a perfect fit for the work we do!
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Before coming to us, she has been very busy completing her BSc in Psychology at the University of Kent. She has also done a number of part-time administrative and customer service orientated jobs while studying, and has done many hours of voluntary work (having been awarded a Millennium Volunteers certificate for attaining 100 hours of voluntary service to her community).
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Genna Centenera
Verbal Behaviour Therapist, Adelaide, Australia
Genna has over three years experience with children, teenagers and adults with autism and special needs. She is totally committed to the field and in keeping up with recent care and intervention advances. Genna has worked in the United Kingdom for three years with children with special needs and has volunteered as a special needs programme counselor for three years in a row at a special needs camp in America. She travels to Africa to work in an orphanage for children with special needs. Genna has now returned to her home in Adelaide, Australia, and works as a Verbal Behaviour Therapist. She begins her Psychology degree in 2010.
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Genna loves to travel, read and play basketball, netball and Australian Rules football and coaches basketball for her district club.
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