M.PEd., BCBA, RBA (Ont.)
Founder and Clinical Director
Bobby is the founder of Apex Educational Consulting Services Inc., an Ontario-based organization that provides a range of services for individuals diagnosed with autism. His work is driven by a commitment to reducing barriers to learning and increasing access to high-quality, individualized support for neurodivergent individuals and their families. Since 2011, Bobby has worked as a behaviour therapist across a variety of settings, including home, school, and centre-based environments, as well as group homes and psychiatric units. He believes that meaningful and lasting progress is best achieved by equipping caregivers and other key individuals with practical, evidence-based teaching strategies that can be consistently applied in everyday settings.
Outside of his clinical work, Bobby is dedicated to his personal interests in fitness, regularly attending kickboxing classes and working toward his own training goals. He is also an accomplished drummer who both performs and teaches. In his music instruction, Bobby continues to apply evidence-based teaching principles to support his students’ learning and development. Each year, he participates in a concert organized by Community Living Toronto, which highlights and celebrates the talents of neurodivergent individuals.
All ABA services must be overseen and supervised by an RBA. As regulated professionals, they provide leadership, oversight, and accountability to ensure all services are evidence-based, ethical, and tailored to your child’s unique strengths and needs. RBAs oversee and support Senior Therapists and ABA Instructor Therapists, and are responsible for the following:
Clinical Oversight: Designing, approving, and monitoring individualized treatment plans to ensure they align with assessment results, best practices, and your child’s goals.
Supervision & Leadership: Providing ongoing supervision and mentorship to individual working with your child to maintain high standards of care.
Assessment & Program Direction: Conducting assessments and using making meaningful adjustments to programming as your child progresses.
Collaboration: Working closely with parents, caregivers, and other professionals to ensure a coordinated approach to care, while providing clear guidance, training, and support.
Ethical & Professional Accountability: Ensuring all services are delivered in accordance with professional, ethical, and regulatory standards.
Registered Behaviour Analysts provide the clinical leadership behind your child’s program, ensuring that all services are cohesive, effective, and responsive to your child’s evolving needs.
Our Senior Therapists will assist in overseeing your child’s ABA program and ensure it is tailored to their unique strengths and needs. They will assist with the following duties under the supervision of a Registered Behaviour Analyst (RBA):
Program Development: Creating and updating individualized treatment plans based on assessments and goals.
Training & Supervision: Coaching ABA Instructor Therapists to carry out teaching strategies effectively and consistently.
Collaboration: Meeting with parents and other professionals to explain strategies, provide progress updates, and answer questions.
Data Review: Analyzing session data to ensure your child is making progress and adjusting programs when needed.
Problem-Solving: Offering guidance on how to manage challenging behaviours and promote skill development in real-life situations.
Senior Therapists act as a bridge between the RBA and the front-line therapists, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and effective services for your child.
ABA Instructor Therapists work directly with your child during their therapy sessions. They are the team members who spend the most time with your child, helping them practice and build skills every day. Their responsibilities include:
Implementing Programs: Following the individualized treatment plan designed by the Senior Therapist and Clinical Supervisor.
Encouraging Growth: Using positive reinforcement to motivate your child and celebrate progress, big or small.
Collecting Data: Recording your child’s responses during sessions so the team can track progress and adjust goals.
Creating a Supportive Environment: Building a positive and trusting relationship with your child to make learning fun and meaningful.
ABA Instructor Therapists bring your child’s program to life, turning goals into everyday achievements.
ABA-based tutors provide academic support that is adapted to meet the unique learning needs of your child. While ABA focuses on behaviour and foundational skill development, ABA-based tutoring sessions are designed to strengthen and maintain school-related skills by providing:
Academic Support: Assisting with reading, comprehension, writing, and math.
Adapted Teaching: Using strategies that support different learning styles, attention levels, and strengths.
Executive Functioning: Teaching your child how to create and follow an agenda, develop study habits, time management, meeting deadlines, take notes, organizing school material, and utilize accommodations outlined in their Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), when applicable.
Consultation: Meetings with your child's school team to further facilitate their teaching plans during sessions.