Dr. Benson is a career-long Autism Spectrum Disorders Consultant.  She began teaching children with ASD in the Fall of 1977 at the Edmonton School for Autistic Children.  Glenis was immediately drawn to people diagnosed with ASD.  Her formal ASD education and research, combined with her experience, represents her own PERSEVERATION with ASD.

Her approach is eclectic.  She relies on the tenets of Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS) to guide toward respectful interventions; challenging behaviors are communication albeit unconventional.  Glenis believes Temple Grandin, Ph.D. has informed her practice immensely, specifically  Dr. Grandin's book Thinking in Pictures. 

Dr. Benson is committed to providing visual supports and to acknowledging communicative impairments even where none seem apparent.  She relies heavily on the teachings of Attwood, Hodgdon, Myles, Twachtman-Cullen, and Quill (in alphabetical order) and many, many more professionals.  Her true teachers have been the many people with ASD and their families that she has had the pleasure of knowing and supporting. 

Philosophically she is committed to inclusive environments and supported employment; she feels strongly that we've come too far to retreat, back into segregated environments. 

Please contact her for speaking engagements or consultation.  References are available upon request.