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Toni Pergolin
President, Chief Executive Officer
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Expert Topics
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Chelsea Corley M.Ed., BCBA
Senior Clinical Director-Children's Services
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Expert Topics
- Embedded Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms, early intervention, moving toward transdisciplinary collaboration, parent/caregiver skill building & collaboration, Disabilty & Inclusive settings, value-based leadership, clinical process improvement

Tracy Kettering PhD
Director, ABA Center of Excellence
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Expert Topics
- Neurodiversity
- Severe and Challenging Behavior
- Healthcare access for severe/profound autism
- General autism and profound autism and/or ABA
- ABA
- First responders
- Tehcnology and VR in autism

Karen Lindgren, Ph.D.
Chief Clinical Officer/All
Karen Lindgren, Ph.D., is the Chief Clinical Officer at Bancroft. She oversees Healthcare and Nursing Services, the Applied Behavior Analysis Center of Excellence, and quality assurance across the organization.
Expert Topics
- Profound Autism
- Tech Innovations for those with Autism and I/DD
- Complex medical needs for those with Autism

Claire McGrath PhD
Senior Clinical Director, Bancroft NeuroRehab
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Expert Topics
- Neurological Conditions (stroke, TBI, Primary Progressive Aphasia)
- Cargiver issues
- Stress of Neurodegenerative Disease on Family Members
- Descalation Strategies in neurological
- Disabilty as Diversity

Nikki Schwartz PsyD
Senior Clinical Director - Children's Residential Services
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Expert Topics
- Guiding Your Child to Behavioral Success
- Trauma Informed Care/Compassion Fatigue Burnout
- Neurodiversity
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