MISSION
Step By Step Academy’s mission is to support children and youth with special needs and their families, by applying evidence based practices based on their specific needs, to create meaningful change in their lives.
Vision:
Strengthen families and communities one step at a time, in order for children with special needs to participate in our communities to their fullest potential.
Core Values:
Respect: we treat all people with fairness and embrace diversity and inclusion to honour one another’s rights.
Integrity:
we complete our work with excellence by working with experienced leaders in the field to enhance our services to provide accountability and evidence-based practices.
Collaboration:
we work as an integrated team to provide the best direction for all children and youth’s learning.
Continued Education:
we are committed to continued learning in the field of Applied Behavioural Analysis and sharing knowledge as a team.
Responsiveness:
we seek to understand and meet the needs of our families and communities as a whole by responding to their requests and goals for children and youth’s learning.
HISTORY
Our founder, Lesley Rogers, is an educator and has over 20 years experience, working with persons of all ages, including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD). She founded Step by Step Academy of Learning in response to the growing need for individualized services for families.
In addition to decades of work as a volunteer, respite worker, Behaviour therapist, foster carer to children with special needs, and supervisor of many clinical teams, Lesley believes that learning is a life long process. She has an accomplished background in business, completed extensive course work in the field of autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis, and is currently completing a degree in Psychology.