Pamela Pérez-Melms Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Davie, Florida, United States

• Oversee the implementation of ABA behavioral services for young children and and adolescents diagnosed with autism and children with behavioral challenges in clinical and home settings.• Complete trainings and consult visits internationally for children with behavioral or learning challenges across the globe and collaborate with other clinical professionals in homes or schools as needed.• Promoted the use of ABA strategies for families and teachers to manage challenging and/or disruptive behavior and replace it with appropriate, adaptive, and/or functional equivalent behavior.• Facilitated parent/family/teacher carryover and consistency of skill-acquisition programs and behavioral interventions to the natural environment to promote generalization of skills.

Boca Raton, Florida

• Oversee the implementation of ABA behavioral services for young children diagnosed with autism and children with behavioral challenges. • Promoted the use of ABA strategies for families and teachers to manage challenging and/or disruptive behavior and replace it with appropriate, adaptive, and/or functional equivalent behavior.• Conducted consult visits as needed to children with behavioral or learning challenges with other professionals in homes or schools as needed.• Facilitated parent/family/teacher carryover and consistency of skill-acquisition programs and behavioral interventions to the natural environment to promote generalization of skills.

Cooper City, Fl

• Provides direct therapeutic interventions to the clients, by teaching, modeling, and coaching ABA directed techniques to increase social skills, language and communication skills, appropriate play skills, cooperation skills, and daily living skills.• Implements operationally defined targeted behaviors or educational goals and executes observable and measurable objectives to facilitate the child’s abilities and resources in reaching his/her maximum potential.

Ithaca, New York Area

• Co-led research investigating the eating habits of Dominican mothers and children in the home• Conducted qualitative interviews examining the influence of immigration on diet and exercise• Translated audio recordings from Spanish to English of the interviews conducted with Dominican mothers

Ithaca, New York Area

• Facilitated an introductory level developmental psychology class section to 300 college students• Led a discussion section on topics relating to human development and child rearing

Ithaca, New York Area

• Managed a team of 10 researchers in investigating second language learning in young toddlers• Led in the recruitment of 5 daycares to participate in the study and redesigned the methodology in the study • Prepared IRB and grant proposals and reported findings to various types of audiences

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Developmental Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology