TACSEI Consultants
Connecticut
Mary Beth Bruder
Avon, CT
bruder@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 preschoolers (3-5)
- Effective evaluation procedures for programs and systems
- Policies and procedures on restraint and seclusion
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Collaboration and teaming
- IDEA and OSEP requirements related to measuring outcomes
- The development of IFSPs that include goals relating to social emotional and behavioral development
- The development of IEPs that include goals that relate to social emotional and behavioral development
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
- Approaches to monitoring growth or outcomes related to social-emotional and behavior development
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- 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 the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Pyramid model for children with disabilities







