Andrew Bennett

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

(Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption)

Andrew Bennett is a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) from Houston, TX. His introductory experience with ABA was long-term early-intervention care as an RBT, and he then worked at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) consulting with special education teachers in the THECB grant-funded ABA Academy program, teaching them fundamentals of ABA and processes for developing practical, function-based solutions to challenging classroom behavior. He spent one of those years also contributing his knowledge of compassionate care-based parent training to their Connecting the Dots focused-intervention clinic. Andrew has worked at Lee College in Baytown, TX within their Connecting to College program as a transition specialist, a coach and mentor equipped to enable neurodivergent students to access college and define and reach their academic, social, and professional goals while in college.

Andrew’s penetrating insight into the Autistic lived experience and its intersection with the world, and the common thread of difference and a need for belonging and inclusion that unites all of humanity, brings him regularly on podcasts and conferences. He helped co-create Responsive Skills Training modules for RBT certification with a technically comprehensive and neuroaffirming approach to applied

behavior analysis, and has appeared primarily as a virtual speaker in his native Texas, but also Kentucky,

Indiana, Tennessee, and outside the US in countries such as Czechia, Indonesia, France, Ecuador, Kenya,

and Rwanda.