Rocco Nocera

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About Rocco Nocera

Produces scholarly work Experience in schools, clinics, the community, group homes, in-patient & university teaching Possesses a fundamental understanding of basic behavioral phenomena, experimental control and research synthesis Uses a wide variety of designs to assess and treat severe problem behavior Addresses chronic problems, works with difficult parents/staff and the most systemically impaired families/clients-dual diagnoses, custody issues, abuse and neglect, parent substance abuse and/or mental illness Successful working in multi-disciplinary arrangements to improve child motor control, communication/language and response to bio-behavioral interventions while minimizing medication side-effects Develops functional analyses to specify learning barriers Uses a variety of teaching modalities (discrete-trial, natural environment teaching, stimulus-stimulus pairing, stimulus equivalence, delayed-matching to sample, Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching) Prefers clinical and staff leadership Primary professional goals: to excel clinically and prepare others to be good behavior analysts Collegial orientation to problem-solving, friendly, spontaneous Informative presenter Performance-based trainer (formal and OJT) Dedicated to improving my client's and family's quality of life Work samples and references available upon request