Melissa Shiefelbein, Chief Executive Officer
My name is Melissa Schiefelbein. I began my journey as a teacher, specializing in Early Childhood education and development. When my son was diagnosed with autism, everything changed. I quit my job in teaching to focus on him and navigate through the world of providing the services he needed. As I sat with him in all of his therapies, I was drawn to Applied Behavioral Analysis. I watched my son learn so many skills and I decided that the best thing for him was to learn how to implement his therapy at home. I went back to school for ABA, became an RBT and then eventually became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, helping children like my son by developing their treatment plans and training their technicians. There was just one problem – the parent connection was still missing. I still sat with parents of my patients and listened to their concerns of how the skills they were learning in therapy were not happening at home. Worse, there were parents that sat on waitlists just to get help for their children. I decided that what the world needs is education for parents – the ability to implement treatment at home, as that made all the difference for my son. I also saw that it’s still difficult for parents to find answers to their questions and decided that it needed to be much easier.