Jessica Minahan, MEd, BCBA, is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst, special educator, as well as a consultant to schools internationally (www.jessicaminahan.com). Jessica has over seventeen years of experience supporting students who exhibit challenging behavior in urban public-school systems.
Jessica Minahan’s Bio
With over 20 years of experience, behavior analyst Jessica Minahan trains clinicians, teachers, and parents on dealing with children exhibiting challenging behaviors. The trauma-informed teaching strategies that Jessica Minahan proposes come from a strong education and lots of experience with children who have behavioral challenges. Jessica Minahan’s workshops focus on training staff to reduce challenging behaviors in the classroom and create effective intervention plans for unsafe behaviors.
Ms. Minahan is also the Director of Behavioral Services at Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents (NESCA), in Massachusetts. Moreover, Ms. Minahan is an adjunct professor in the special education department at Boston University and a well-received blogger for the Huffington Post. In addition to being a sought-after international speaker, Jessica Minahan presents in Theramoves webinars. Enroll in speech pathology continuing education courses on Theramoves.
Co-author of The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students (Harvard Education Press, 2012)
Author of The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behaviors (Harvard Education Press, 2014).
