Ms. Tursenovic is a NYS Certified School Psychologist, who serves as our IRB Chairperson, with post-graduate training in Advanced Applied Behavior Analysis, and twelve years of experience practicing ABA across various settings with diverse populations. Ms. Tursenovic also has nine years’ experience working as a School Psychologist, providing counseling and crisis intervention to students of varying disabilities, district-wide parent training, and psycho-educational evaluations. Most recently, Ms. Tursenovic is working as part of a dynamic team within Kidz Choice Services Inc. As an Assistant Clinical Director, Ms. Tursenovic helps to recruit new staff, and develop staff training protocols, as well as company policies and procedures. Ms. Tursenovic looks forward to continuing to help Kidz Choice Services Inc., grow and provide top quality ABA services to children with Autism and their families.

Dr. Sara Bauer is a certified member of our IRB Team, and a Lecturer of the Applied Behavior Analysis program at the Seymour Fox School of Education The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from Queens College, and her Ph.D. in Learning Processes and Behavior Analysis from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. During her graduate studies, Dr. Bauer’s research concentrated on examining behavior analytic interventions to address characteristic weaknesses associated with the Down syndrome behavioral phenotype. Dr. Bauer’s research has been published in several peer reviewed journals (i.e., Research in Developmental Disabilities; Behavioral Interventions)

Khadija Prowell is certified IRB member and a Master’s level certified Teacher of early childhood general and special education. Additionally, she has completed all required coursework of the post-master’s BCBA program and is looking forward to earning her title as a BCBA. She obtained all of her degrees at CUNY Hunter College. Currently, Khadija is an assistant supervisor and lead ABA Teacher with Kidz choice. She has worked with Kidz Choice for 4 years and has worked with young children with disabilities and special needs for 9 years. Khadija mentors and coach’s early childhood classroom teachers in addition to assisting in training some of our Kidz Choice providers. Khadija is passionate about her progress in her career. She strongly believes in continuously learning through her professional experiences and is looking forward to expand her knowledge in the field. Aside from supporting her clients she enjoys spending her time with her own family, which includes her husband and daughters.

Magdalena Kolec is a certified IRB member and Registered Behavior Technician. She received her Bachelor’s degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Master’s degree in Psychology from The City College of New York. Magdalena holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis Advanced Series from Florida Institute of Technology and is pursuing her Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) credential. She has been in the field of ABA since 2015 and has worked with children diagnosed with ASD and other disabilities in the school setting as well as, provided 1:1 therapy in the home setting to children ages 3-17. Currently, Magdalena is an ABA Assistant Clinical Supervisor at Kidz Choice Services Inc. where she continues to implement individualized ABA therapy focusing on increasing language and communication skills, decreasing problem behavior, improving attention, social skills, memory, academics, play and leisure, self-care skills as well as, independent work habits and community integration. Magdalena has found a passion in using ABA principals to help students work towards their goals and to achieve their full potential. She is committed to significantly improving each student’s overall quality of life.