Anne Lau, M.Ed., BCBA, LBA is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) who has specialized in working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) since 2004. She earned her Master’s in Education (Counseling) from University of Hawaii in 2008. Anne spent six years working up from the chair at an intensive learning center, teaching a wide variety of students in intensive intervention, and seeing first-hand the power of quality ABA to take severely impacted children with limited vocal skills all the way to mainstream classrooms without assistance. Anne was chosen to travel to Tokyo, Japan, on several occasions to assist in providing service and supervising programs. Anne has great experience performing language, academic, and adaptive behavioral assessments and has presented and designed trainings on numerous facets of ABA.
Anne joined ABC Group in 2010, where she assisted in opening The ABC Clinic , a specialty school for children with autism, and other learning challenges, in Aiea, on the island of Oahu. She completed coursework in behavior analysis through the University of North Texas and became board certified in 2010. Anne is an active member of the Hawai’i Association for Behavior Analysis (HABA), and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Autism Training Solutions (ATS) . She is also a member of the Association of Behavior Analysis International and the American Counseling Association.
Anne’s interests include: the core social deficits of autism (as a lack of pairing with reinforcement), Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, feeding problems, parent group training, precision teaching, and organizational behavior management.