· Founder of STAR System. Experienced educator, researcher and trainer.

· Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, U.S.A.

· Over 40 years experience of teaching and research in the area of autism & creating autism teaching strategies.

· Author of “School-based Programs for Children with Autism” in the Handbook on Autism.

· Instruct therapists in OST with STAR strategies and assessment systems. Participates in  setting up STAR classrooms, assessing students, designing teaching plan and tracking students progress;

· From 2016 till now, establishing OST-STAR centers in cooperation with OST.

· Founder of STAR System. Public university special education teacher in U.S.A.

· Over 30 years experience of teaching and research in the area of autism & creating autism teaching strategies.

· Many years of experience coaching and implementing the strategies in the STAR Program, including: Discrete Trial Training, Pivotal Response Training, Teaching Functional Routines, etc.

· Instruct therapists in OST with STAR strategies and assessment systems. Participates in  setting up STAR classrooms, assessing students, designing teaching plan and tracking students progress.

·From 2016 till now, establishing OST-STAR centers in cooperation with OST.

· Professor Sally Hewat used to work with Trinh Foundation in Australia,establishing speech training institutes in universities in Vietnam. She wasawarded the Honored Medal by People’s Committee of Hochiminh City, as gratitudefor her extraordinary contribution to the area of speech training in Vietnam.

· Board CertifiedBehavior Analyst. PhD in Special Education from the University of Iowa.

· More than 20 yearsexperience working with children with autism.

· Faculty positionsat multiple universities, autism coordinator for the University of Iowa,Children’s Hospital Autism Center, behavior analyst with school districts inIowa and West Virginia, special education teacher, and paraprofessional.

· Graduated fromArizona State University (ASU) with a Masters Degree in education. She is aBoard Certified Behavior Analyst.

· More than 10 yearsworking as public education tutor and autism specialist.

· Working with STARAutism Support (SAS), providing large amount of training through lecture andconsultation.

· Graduated from Northern Arizona University with Bachelors Degree in Elementary and Special Education and a Masters Degree in Elementary Education.

· Mary Jo was previously employed in the Arizona Public Schools since 1987 as a general education teacher, special education teacher, Special Education Instructional Coach and a Special Education Achievement Leader.

· She has worked on the Arizona state-wide project training teachers in both the LINKS Curriculum and STAR Program. She has also provided on-site training for the Philadelphia project training teachers on using the LINKS Curriculum.

Bachelor’s Degree in SpecialEducation and Master’s Degree in Education Policy, Organization, andLeadership. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.

· Bachelor’s Degree inSpecial Education and Master’s Degree in Education Policy, Organization, andLeadership. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.

· Holds a current IllinoisAdministrator License.

· Over 8 years experienceworking with students with autism and other disabilities. Being a trainingspecialist, she provides relevant training through lectures and classroomconsultation.

· She has worked acrosselementary, middle, and secondary levels in academic, functional life skills,community, and vocational settings. As a classroom teacher, Elizabethimplemented the STAR program and Links curriculum, and became an elementarymodel site for the STAR Program in her district.

· Debbie has been a Speech/Language Pathologist providing consultation/training in schools throughout the United States.

· Debbie worked as a consultant with Easterseals of Arkansas - Outreach Program providing consultation/training to teachers and therapists in the state of Arkansas.

· She was the coordinator of a week-long summer training program which utilized modeling, coaching, and hands-on implementation using the STAR program.

· Prior to this, Debbie worked in the San Diego Unified School District in San Diego, CA. She received extensive training in the field of Autism and participated in a 3-year multi-agency grant project in San Diego County. Upon completion of the grant, she was on a team that opened the first pre-school classroom in the district for children with Autism using evidence-based practices.