About Lauren Harrington Abel
Lauren Abel has been helping children with Autism Spectrum disorders in the Houston, TX area since she was a teenager. She knew at a very young age that she was called to be an agent of positive charge within the special needs community. After graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Psychology from the University of Houston, she found herself unhappy and burned out working in a traditional behavioral clinic. This frustration fueled her passion to figure out a way to reach more children with autism and to improve their lives in meaningful ways by meeting their individual needs. She knew there had to be a better way, and she was willing to rock the boat to find it. She quit her job and hit the road as a traveling therapist, conducting private in-home sessions for a small group of children. The improvements these children demonstrated, as a result of working with Lauren, were astounding to their parents. Parents were seeing first hand that improvement was possible, even if they hadn’t experienced it before.
Lauren was eager to do more for her community and took on the task of developing a non-profit day-treatment center where children with Autism could receive high quality services on a full time basis, as an alternative to a traditional school setting. This center, The Next Step Academy, currently serves over 30 families and has helped hundreds of families since it opened in 2005. The Next Step Academy now serves children from birth into adulthood, and has a variety of service offering to help individuals and their families navigate autism. For more information, visit us online www.TheNextStepAcademy.org
Lauren is passionate about developing dynamic solutions to real problems and offers private consultations, private sessions, professional education, a variety of curriculum options and staffing solutions through her for-profit, The Institute for Special Needs Children. She has almost 20 years of experience as a behavior analyst, is licensed in several other therapeutic modalities and is always looking for innovative ways to help children and families who are struggling. Lauren is an innovator when it comes to creating treatment packages for her cases, putting empirically supported treatments together in dynamic ways that produce life changing results. She specializes in working with individuals who have severe or extreme behaviors, little or no language, complicated medical histories and/or those who don’t respond to other effective approaches. She also works with a limited number of private clients, across the autism spectrum and a variety of other special needs. For more information, visit us online at LaurenAbel.com or GetInSNC.com
Lauren is currently acting Director at InSNC and The Next Step Academy. She serves as President of the Board of A Future for Us All, Inc. She is dedicated to finding and implementing the most innovative and effective approaches to the issues facing the special needs community. Since March of 2016 she has also been serving as the Executive Director of Rhythmic Movement Training International.
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Location:
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Certified to Teach
Making Connections Practicum
RMTi Making Connections
RMT for School Readiness
Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum
Face the Fear
RMTi Three - Reading and Writing
RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior
RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension
Rhythm, Movement and Play - A One Day Introduction to RMTI
Essentials of RMTI - A Half Day Introduction to Rhythmic Movement Training
Previous Classes
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - December 16th, 2023
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - December 14th, 2023
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - September 23rd, 2023
- Making Connections Practicum - United States - September 22nd, 2023
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - December 3rd, 2022
- Making Connections Practicum - United States - December 2nd, 2022
- Face the Fear - United States - October 15th, 2022
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - September 18th, 2022
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - September 16th, 2022
- RMT for School Readiness - United States - August 11th, 2022
- RMTi Three - Reading and Writing - United States - July 30th, 2022
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - July 15th, 2022
- Making Connections Practicum - United States - July 14th, 2022
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - April 30th, 2022
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - February 25th, 2022
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - November 13th, 2021
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - November 6th, 2021
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - September 11th, 2021
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - June 26th, 2021
- Level 1 & Level 2 Practicum - United States - March 6th, 2021
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - February 26th, 2021
- RMTi Making Connections - United States - October 22nd, 2020
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - September 13th, 2020
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - September 12th, 2020
- Face the Fear - United States - March 14th, 2020
- RMTi Making Connections - United States - November 7th, 2019
- RMTi Making Connections - United States - October 12th, 2019
- RMTi Three - Reading and Writing - United States - September 14th, 2019
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - April 15th, 2019
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - April 13th, 2019
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - March 17th, 2019
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - March 15th, 2019
- Rhythm, Movement and Play - A One Day Introduction to RMTI - United States - January 3rd, 2019
- Rhythm, Movement and Play - A One Day Introduction to RMTI - United States - October 20th, 2018
- RMTi Three - Reading and Writing - United States - September 21st, 2018
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - August 19th, 2018
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - August 17th, 2018
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - July 18th, 2018
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - July 16th, 2018
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - March 10th, 2018
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - March 8th, 2018
- RMTi Three - Reading and Writing - United States - June 10th, 2017
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - June 1st, 2017
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - May 30th, 2017
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - September 5th, 2016
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - September 3rd, 2016
- Rhythm, Movement and Play - A One Day Introduction to RMTI - United States - August 30th, 2016
- RMTi Two - Emotions, Memory & Behavior - United States - August 14th, 2016
- RMTi One - Focus, Organisation & Comprehension - United States - August 12th, 2016
- RMTi Three - Reading and Writing - United States - July 30th, 2016
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