Maria Emperatriz Ruiz-Merroth
More than 30 years of professional experience as a teacher of special education, ABA, mediator, advocate, and legal assistant for ABA, supervisor of the Wraparound program, etc, Our mission statement is to train you, the consumer or the parents/guardians to become the independent facilitator of your own program, The main idea is to learn how to find the right services, track the progress, effectiveness, make the changes needed, and control their own budget, to understand the law and use it to improve your program. Therefore, we will put the power in your hands to decide and eventually divert the funds of the external independent facilitator through more necessary services, programs and education for you, as a consumer.
Services Provided
- Ongoing Independent Facilitation
- Individual Budget Support
- Individual Program Plan (IPP)
- Person Centered Plan (PCP) Development
- Spending Plan Development
Regional Centers
- Eastern LA
- Orange County
- North LA County
- San Gabriel/Pomona
- San Diego
- Frank Lanterman
- South Central LA
- Harbor
- Westside
Languages Supported
- English
- Spanish
- Spanish Creole
Qualifications, training and certificates
- An Active IEP Advocate from 2000 to the present
- ASLA Independent Facilitator Mentor Training, California, Sep 21 to April 222, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Person-Centered Plan (PCP) - ELARC. Nov-19.
- Independent Facilitator- ELARC-DDS. Oct-19
- Independent Facilitator - RCOC & DDS. Sept-19
- ABA Paralegal -UCI Mar-2019.
- Ed.D. (c ) University of Pittsburgh, Jun94.
- Master in Education- Suffolk University, Boston Jun 80.
- Special Education B.S. Aug75.
- ABA Clinical Supervisor & PC since 2000.
- Dispute Resolution- Mediation-OCHRC - May 08.