Chad M. Burns, M.Ed., BCBA, LBA
Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Therapist
Chad holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Austin College and a Master of Education in Special Education: Autism/Applied Behavior Analysis Concentration from Texas State University. He is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst® (BCBA®) and a Licensed Behavior Analyst with the state of Texas. He is a UCLA PEERS® certified provider (adolescents and telehealth). He has a Behavior Coach Endorsement [400 Hours in Behavior and Discipline Management] from Education Service Center (ESC) Region XIII & Otey Associates and is a certified Texas educator in Special Education (EC-12).
As a BCBA and as a parent of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Chad is committed to partnering with parents to improve the quality of life for their children with disabilities; he is also passionate about empowering parents to become the best teachers and advocates for their children.
Chad has a decade and a half of professional experience providing behavioral-support services to children identified as having ASD, Emotional Disturbance, ADD/ADHD, Specific Learning Disability, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and Intellectual Disability, including children exhibiting high levels of physical aggression and/or self-injurious behavior (including pica) and children with ASD who also experienced significant trauma, such as neglect and physical abuse.
Chad has thirteen years of professional experience collaborating with caregivers, with other professionals—educational associates, school administration, behavior specialists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, classroom teachers, licensed professional counselors, and licensed specialists in school psychology--and with agencies, organizations or teams: CPS, CASA, Hill Country MHDD, and MCOT.
Chad obtained his clinical experience at the Clinic for Autism Research, Evaluation, and Support (CARES) at Texas State University, where he completed two semesters of intensive practicum.
Chad has two years of undergraduate experience managing daily-living activities for children ages 9 to 17 with identified disabilities in a group-foster-home setting.
Chad’s additional training includes, among others: Basic Mediation Training [40 Hours], ESC Region XIII, in acc. w/ the Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution Act, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, 154.052; Satori Alternative to Managing Aggression (SAMA); Mental Health First Aid; Scottish Rite Dyslexia Center's Language Foundations [40 Hours]; Legal Perspectives in Special Education; educational technology; IEP development; and ASD-specific trainings.
Chad has over a decade of practical experience being the parent of a sweet boy diagnosed with ASD. What he hasn’t learned from his son, he has learned from his amazing twenty-one-year-old daughter and from the hundreds of children that he has seen develop at Miller Middle School between 2006 and 2019.
If you’re looking for Chad, you will probably find him at the river, at the “green belt” or at the city park--just look for his son’s light-up scooter.
Publication:
Burns, C., Lang, R., & Ledbetter Cho, K. (2017). Meta-analysis of single-case experimental design studies involving children with or at risk of autism spectrum disorder suggests intervention is effective during first three years of life. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 11:3-4, 119-123.
DOI: 10.1080/17489539.2017.1401038
Professional Affiliations:
Association of Professional Behavior Analysts
Texas Association for Behavior Analysis
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"