Grace began her career working as an Applied Behaviour Analysis tutor on a home programme while she studied for her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Child Studies. She fell in love with the world of behaviour analysis so after graduating she began to tutor in a variety of settings; private homes, community settings, schools and nurseries, both mainstream and special educational needs. Grace has worked with students who primarily have a diagnosis of Autism. After a year she was promoted to Lead Tutor and held this role for 8 years, gaining extensive experience in teaching children core skills such as imitation, visual performance skills, academic skills and functional communication.
In the last few years Grace was also able to take on a more senior role in training staff, analysing data in order to change the learning approach being taken and also presenting evidence at formal educational meetings. Grace has a particularly strong passion for the implementation of PECS, she found this helped her learners not just express their wants and needs but also to comment and interact with the world around them. Wanting to learn more about behavioural science in order to improve her teaching, she began her Behaviour Analysis Masters at Bangor University which she passed with distinction in December 2019. She became a BCBA in early 2021 and UKBA(cert) in 2023.