About

Sridhar Aravamudhan, B.E., PGDM, M.A, BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) is a mechanical engineering graduate and holds a postgraduate degree in management from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. After working in business development and operations management roles with leading transnational corporations like Pepsico, British Petroleum and Tech Mahindra for 22 years , to help his daughter on the autism spectrum, 8 years ago, he started learning Behavior Analysis. Mentored by Dr. Smita Awasthi, he started as a therapist working with other children with autism, went on to complete a Masters program in Applied Behavior Analysis with Autism Emphasis from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana,United states and became a BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Certificant number 1-12-12008 ) in 2012 . He works with Behavior Momentum India ( www.behaviormomentum.com) as a Consultant and Research Associate. He trains therapists and parents and believes that research drives practice excellence. He helps children on the autism spectrum acquire new skills, shapes socially appropriate behaviors and finds effective methods to address challenging behviors. He teaches Applied Behavior Analysis as a faculty in the Board approved course sequence in India to national and international students. His research interests include teaching conditional discriminations, Precision Teaching and articulation training and he has presented several research papers and posters in international and national conferences. He is also a past president of the Association for Behavior Analysis India.