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Kelly Morris

Hi all, I am a consultant behaviour analyst for individuals with autism. Please feel free to ask me questions about behaviours that may challenge, teaching functional communication, increasing/decreasing certain behaviours, etc. I can hopefully offer some general advice that may be of help. My job entails conducting functional assessments on behaviours that challenge (finding out why they are occurring), writing positive behaviour support plans, training staff on best practise and much more.

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    Hi Alice,

    It seems that Kelly is an american coach for the ABA system of behavioural training. I don't recall another posting from such a person in the 2 years I've been using the forum. I don't know anything about ABA except that it is sometimes used with children and I guess that the results are variable. I would have been interested to understand her views on ABA but it probably wasn't appropriate for her to offer her services in the way that she did.

    Anyways, please don't feel shy about starting a new thread. There is a mixture of adults with autism and parents (sometimes with autism themselves) of children with autism so you are likely to get a wide variety of responses! I had a look, using the community search (top left of the forum pages), and hoarding hasn't been discussed properly yet. This is a bit surprising as my understanding of a lot of the people with hoards that you see on programmes like http://www.channel4.com/programmes/obsessive-compulsive-cleaners is that they are on the spectrum somewhere (as are some of the obsessive cleaners!)

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    Hi Alice,

    It seems that Kelly is an american coach for the ABA system of behavioural training. I don't recall another posting from such a person in the 2 years I've been using the forum. I don't know anything about ABA except that it is sometimes used with children and I guess that the results are variable. I would have been interested to understand her views on ABA but it probably wasn't appropriate for her to offer her services in the way that she did.

    Anyways, please don't feel shy about starting a new thread. There is a mixture of adults with autism and parents (sometimes with autism themselves) of children with autism so you are likely to get a wide variety of responses! I had a look, using the community search (top left of the forum pages), and hoarding hasn't been discussed properly yet. This is a bit surprising as my understanding of a lot of the people with hoards that you see on programmes like http://www.channel4.com/programmes/obsessive-compulsive-cleaners is that they are on the spectrum somewhere (as are some of the obsessive cleaners!)

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