Carol Burmeister

Carol Burmeister, M.A. , has a life-long passion for supporting neurodiverse individuals, their families, and the schools and community settings that serve them. Her professional experience includes serving as a paraeducator, general education teacher, special educator, program specialist, university instructor, and consultant across a variety of educational settings. Armed with the knowledge that evidence-based intervention practices for children with ASD are the basis on which effective...See more

Carol Burmeister, M.A. , has a life-long passion for supporting neurodiverse individuals, their families, and the schools and community settings that serve them. Her professional experience includes serving as a paraeducator, general education teacher, special educator, program specialist, university instructor, and consultant across a variety of educational settings. Armed with the knowledge that evidence-based intervention practices for children with ASD are the basis on which effective programs are built, Carol served as a reviewer on both the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders' and the National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practices' updates on evidence-based practices. For the past several years, her work has focused on the crucial topic of executive function (EF), helping students and parents as well as educators understand the complexity of social, academic, and behavioral challenges that accompany EF deficits and how teaching specific skills in childhood and adolescence can have a positive impact on adulthood. Carol has presented at regional, national, and international conferences and has authored several articles on this topic. In addition, she is co-author, with Dr. Sheri Wilkins, of the book, FLIPP the Switch: Strengthen Executive Function Skills as well as FLIPP the Switch 2.0: Mastering Executive Function Skills from School to Adult Life for Students with Autism , co-authored with Dr. Wilkins and Dr. Rebecca Silva. She is also an editor and a contributing author to Life After Lockdown: Resetting Perceptions of Autism. Carol currently serves on the board of the Panhandle Autism Society in North Idaho. See less