Kerry Mataya has a deep love for Bridgeway Services because of the individual clients and families represented. Whereas many service providers and teachers are only able to follow a student for a short period of time, she desires to follow a student for life. She is outcome-driven with the desire to see each student become more successful in cognitive thinking, socialization, emotional understanding, communication, conversation, friendships, problem solving, perspective taking, behavior, academics, self-awareness, self-regulation, executive functioning, and sports. Having created her own program for most of those areas, Kerry enjoys systemizing learning for high functioning learners with ASD. With a Master's Degree in Education with emphasis in Autism and Asperger Syndrome coursework from the University of Kansas in August 2003 under Dr. Brenda Smith Myles, Kerry has specific training on how to really understand the thinking and learning process for high functioning individuals with ASD. As a consultant, Kerry develops individualized and group programs in Birmingham, AL and surrounding areas where the client with HF-ASD is always the center of the program. Co-author of Successful Problem Solving and Talk with Me, Kerry has presented at numerous conferences and school workshops internationally. She is also the founder of EVOLVE and Asperger Connection. In her spare time, she enjoys spending quality time with her two children, Mark and Ava Kate, spending time with friends and family, attending Church of the Highlands Grandview campus, traveling, reading, and doing most anything outdoors.