My 1 star review is for ACES Executive Clinical Director: Dr. Sharyn L. Kerr. She is skilled in handling customers and doing business with the school district, but not in actually helping children. My child had ACES services from preschool to 7th grade. Dr. Kerr was the program supervisor and RDI coach from 1st to 5th grade and all of his IEP meetings from 1st to 7th grade.
She singlehandedly handled my child's case, and the supervisors she hired to handle to assist her from 5th to 7th grade were not allowed to contribute to my child program - no goals, no treatment plan, and they were not permitted to speak at my child's IEP meeting.
After 4th grade, she attended my child's IEP meeting only with an observation report without any proposed goals, assessment report, and treatment plan. At the time, we didn't trust the resource teacher (Shelly Mitchell) and school psychologist (Michelle Chang) at Turtle Rock Elementary, but we trusted Dr. Kerr since she helped with my ABA home program for several years. But the team at Turtle Rock would rather pay ACES supervisor fees for four years and Dr. Kerr made a business deal with the school.
Another ACES Supervisor, Ginny Ashbury, had written a detailed observation that was not shown to us until we requested a complete copy of our child's record when he was in high school. Ashbury's report would have been extremely useful in my child's therapy but Dr. Kerr did not permit her to appear at IEP meetings and tell us the truth.
My child had ABA therapy throughout high school with different companies. All his behavior problems that could have been easily identified and treated during his childhood have stayed with him into adolescence. His behavior continues to impact his daily, social, and academic life. He has never been able to make any friends, and his high school teachers suffered from his behavior in the classroom. A long list of accommodations was on his IEP due to his lack of therapy since 4th grade.
Dr. Kerr now is the administrator and staff trainer of ACES. She handles all of the supervisors and co-signs the assessment reports and treatment reports. Please think twice before you use ACES services.
P.S. I would also like to note that the following BCBA from ACES had been working on my child's case or attending his IEP meetings:
Sharyn Kerr, BCBA
Aimee Pack BCBA
Katrien Filez, BCBA
Malia Wilson BCBA
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