Why CTAC

Where Every Child Can Learn​

At CTAC, we believe it is never too late to start therapy and every client can learn. We hire and maintain experienced, professional staff that supervise and work directly with our clients. Our staff receives the highest frequency of supervision, reviews and ongoing training in the field to insure the best quality care for our clients.

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​Training from Leaders in the Field

Each year, CTAC provides continuing education hours by hosting conferences with internationally known researchers and leaders in the field of ABA and VB. Professionals from all over the world attend these conferences. The presenters often spend a day exclusively training CTAC staff, offering amazing growth opportunities for our employees.

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Mark L. Sundberg

Ph.D., BCBA-D

Author of the VB-MAPP

Mark Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA-D received his doctorate degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from Western Michigan University (1980), under the direction of Dr. Jack Michael. He is the author of the VB-MAPP, and co-author of the original ABLLS and the book Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities. He has published over 50 professional papers and 6 book chapters. He is the founder and past editor of the journal The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, a twice past-president of The Northern California Association for Behavior Analysis, a past-chair of ABAI’s Publication Board, and has served on the Board of Directors of the B. F. Skinner Foundation. Dr. Sundberg has given hundreds of conference presentations and workshops nationally and internationally, and taught 80 college and university courses on behavior analysis, verbal behavior, sign language, and child development. He is a licensed psychologist with over 40 years of clinical experience. His awards include the 2001 “Distinguished Psychology Department Alumnus Award” from Western Michigan University, and the 2013 “Jack Michael Outstanding Contributions in Verbal Behavior Award” from ABAI’s Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group.

Vincent Carbone

Vincent J. Carbone

Ed.D., BCBA-D

Director, The Carbone Clinic

Dr. Vincent J. Carbone is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctorate and New York State Licensed Behavior Analyst. He received his graduate training in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Penn State University and graduate programs in Behavior Analysis offered by IESCUM, Parma, Italy, and at the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. His behavior analytic research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. He has provided the requisite university training and supervision to hundreds of board certified behavior analysts in the U.S. and overseas. He is the 2017 recipient of the “Jack Michael Outstanding Contributions in Verbal Behavior Award” from The Association for Behavior Analysis International’s Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group. Currently, he serves as the director of the Carbone Clinics in Rockland County, a northern suburb of New York City and in the Boston, MA, area. Additionally, he serves as the director of the Carbone Clinic in London, UK, and Dubai, UAE.

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Patrick McGreevy

Ph.D, BCBA-D

Author of Essential for Living (EFL)

Patrick McGreevy received B.S. and M.A. degrees in Psychology and Special Education, respectively, from the University of Iowa. He was a special education teacher for eight years, working with children and young adults with moderate-to-severe developmental disabilities. He received the Ph.D. degree in Education from Kansas University under the guidance of Ogden R. Lindsley. He has served on the faculties of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Louisiana State University, the University of Central Florida, and the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the author of Teaching and Learning in Plain English, an introduction to Precision Teaching, and the founder and first editor of the Journal of Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting. He is the author of ten journal articles and a book chapter on teaching verbal behavior. He is the first author of Essential for Living, a functional skills curriculum, assessment, and professional practitioner’s handbook based on B. F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior for children and adults with moderate-to-severe disabilities. For the past 30 years, he has provided consultations for children and adults with developmental disabilities in school districts, residential programs, and hospitals, specializing in the simultaneous management of aggressive and self-injurious behavior and the teaching of communication and language skills to individuals with limited repertoires. He has given hundreds of presentations and workshops, and is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Standard Celeration Society.

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"This training has been outstanding!!! I have revamped my whole language instructional piece to be more research based, and now I have very structured goals for how to teach language in a more scaffolded way to meet the needs of my students. VERY, VERY HELPFUL."

Special Education Teacher
Former participant in CTAC's TOT workshop (unsolicited)