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TACSEI Consultants

Tennessee

Joaniko Kohchi

Knoxville, TN
kohchi@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5

This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:

  • Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
  • Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
  • Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
  • The development of IEPs that include goals that relate to social emotional and behavioral development
  • The development of IFSPs that include goals relating to social emotional and behavioral development
  • Collaboration and teaming
  • Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
  • Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
  • Assessment instruments and procedures related to social emotional development
  • Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
  • Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
  • Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
  • Implementing evidence-based practices responsive to cultural and language diversity
  • Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
  • Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)

Matt Timm

Nashville, TN
timm@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5
Websites:  http://www.tnvoices.org/ and http://www.ripnetwork.org/

This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:

  • Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective intervention services for families of young children with challenging behavior
  • Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
  • Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
  • Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
  • Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
  • Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
  • Collaboration and teaming