Autism Classroom Behavior Technician I and II

Cleveland Clinic•North Canton, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day. We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One. Cleveland Clinic Children’s Center for Autism, an innovative and unique education resource for children with autism spectrum disorders, offers community-based intervention and outreach services, trains medical and educational professionals and conducts ongoing autism research. Cleveland Clinic's Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation is looking for multiple Autism Classroom Behavior Technician's at level I or level II. Placement will be determined based upon experience and requirements outlined below. Our facilities are dedicated to treatment, education, and research for children, adolescents, young adults, and families dealing with autism spectrum disorders. The Lerner School is a full year center-based program that utilizes the principles of ABA. The school serves students diagnosed with autism aged 2-22. A caregiver in this position works days, from 8:00am—5:00pm.

Requirements

Associate or Bachelor's degree in a related field. OR High School diploma/GED and two years of relevant experience (which includes at least three months of ABA experience for CBT I and six months for CBT II).
Educational Aide Permit (EAP) through the Ohio Department of Education: permit must be pending prior to start date; or Ohio Teaching License (OTC).
Six months of experience working with children with autism utilizing applied behavior analysis or a Teaching License in related area plus three months of experience working with children with autism utilizing applied behavior analysis (CBT II).

Responsibilities

Acquire baseline data and implement approved program using behavioral technology.
Follows and implements a behavior plan, consistently redirects challenging behavior, and implements PTT techniques.
Creates monthly summaries and progress reports.
Maintains professional communication, and follows student's daily schedule.
Implements student's IEP, creates and updates daily data sheets, identifies programs that require troubleshooting.
Makes appropriate changes to student's curriculum.
Implement discrete trial teaching procedures across a variety of students and functioning levels; utilizes prompt fading, naturalistic teaching, shaping, and chaining procedures; utilizes leader-prompter model and group reinforcement during small group instruction.
Select appropriate task analyses and teaching targets based on student's goals/objectives; monitor, analyze and troubleshoot programs; align students' curriculum to work in a dyad; prepare lesson plans incorporating Ohio academic content standards and appropriate materials.
Collect, analyze, and maintain behavior data; implement differential reinforcement procedures; apply schedules of reinforcement; utilize functional communication teaching.
Act as a mentor for new staff; develops graphs for parent communication; attends home visits; assists with student transitions.