TACSEI Consultants
Florida
Kwang-Sun Blair
Tampa, FL
blair@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- IDEA requirements related to social emotional and behavioral development/intervention
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
Pamelazita Buschbacher
Land O Lakes, FL
buschbacher@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Collaboration and teaming
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
- Pyramid model for children with disabilities
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- 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
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- IDEA requirements related to social emotional and behavioral development/intervention
- 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)
- Assessment instruments and procedures related to social emotional development
- Approaches to monitoring growth or outcomes related to social-emotional and behavior 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 response to intervention (RTI) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Social emotional curricula
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
Kim Galant
Tallahassee, FL
galant@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- The development of IEPs that include goals that relate to social emotional and behavioral development
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Social emotional curricula
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Pyramid model for children with disabilities
Mary Harper
Tampa, FL
harper@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Policies and procedures related to expulsion
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- Effective evaluation procedures for programs and systems
- Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Social emotional curricula
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Collaboration and teaming
- Assessment instruments and procedures related to social emotional development
- Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective practices
- 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)
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting 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
Meme (Mary Ellen) Hieneman
Palm Harbor, FL
hieneman@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Collaboration and teaming
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
Hazel Jones
Gainesville, FL
jones@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5
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)
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Collaboration and teaming
Allison Pinto
Tampa, FL
pinto@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- Collaboration and teaming
- Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective practices
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Effective evaluation procedures for programs and systems
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Approaches to monitoring growth or outcomes related to social-emotional and behavior development
Patricia Snyder
Gainesville, FL
snyder@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- Collaboration and teaming
- Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
- Effective evaluation procedures for programs and systems
- IDEA and OSEP requirements related to measuring outcomes
- Implementing response to intervention (RTI) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
- 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)
- Assessment instruments and procedures related to social emotional development
- Approaches to monitoring growth or outcomes related to social-emotional and behavior development
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Pyramid model for children with disabilities
Anne Wimmer
Tampa, FL
taccetta@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
Bobbie Vaughn
Tampa, FL
vaughn@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5
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)
- The development of IEPs that include goals that relate to social emotional and behavioral development
- Idea requirements related to social emotional and behavioral development/intervention
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Policies and procedures on restraint and seclusion
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
Juliann Woods
Tallahassee, FL
woods@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Providing appropriate intervention for children with autism
- Collaboration and teaming
- The development of IFSPs that include goals relating to social emotional and behavioral development
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention







