PIECES CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
WHO WE AREOur Mission
What We Stand For
Our passion and mission is to dedicate ourselves in honing an individual’s potentials in the way that suits his needs and provide families and professionals the knowledge and training needed for creating meaningful experiences that will fully develop the individual’s sense of independence and enjoy life.
Faithful to our advocacy, we vow to help individuals reach their full potential by utilizing only an evidence-based program and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) an effective and proven principle.
Our Vision
PIECES envisions itself to be the best leading Early Intervention provider in the Philippines…
PIECES envisions itself to be an excellent service provider in the country utilizing the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis – Verbal Behavior Approach that will serve as an excellent center for individuals with developmental delays or challenging behaviors and a dynamic partner of their families and professionals working with them.
We collaboratively work with other professionals like doctors, OTs, SLPs and Sped teachers who are, too, practicing evidence-based procedures/programs.
Kathryn Millano-Mendoza, LPT, MA Ed., BCBA
Program Director, Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Kathryn Millano-Mendoza completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Master of Arts in Education, specializing in Child Study from the country’s national leading center for teacher education, the Philippine Normal University. She is a registered teacher and had finished basic and advance Applied Behavior Analysis course series at Florida Institute of Technology. She was under supervision of Sorah Stein and Cherish Twigg both Board Certified Behavior Analyst based in USA. Kathryn is the first Filipino BCBA who is based in the Philippines.
She began working in the area of Applied Behavior Analysis with children with developmental delays in 2002. She was introduced to Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior in 2007 during her training and employment in Tokyo, Japan as a behavior therapist and a learning support teacher. She founded PIECES in 2010 to provide ABA program services for children with developmental disabilities and to train competitive behavioral technicians. She previously has been a part of an educational support group for children with Autism as a Senior Consultant Instructor in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Her work experience includes working with children in a one-on-one home setting, assisting children in mainstream schools, working and supervising ABA program in a school for children with special needs, running hands-on parent and teacher training workshops and consulting on in-home ABA programs.
She also has experience being a resource speaker for seminars and community outreach programs and teaching undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Psychology, Special Education and Child Study
“Find the piece that can make your child reach his full potential”
PRC License Number: 0792048
Certification Level: Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Certification Number: 1-14-15280