Who We Are

Jill Hellemans is a Senior Behaviour Support Educator at ABI. She joined ABI in August 2006 and has been a leader in pioneering the Family Support Services program.

Jill has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at Macquarie University, a Postgraduate Degree in Counselling from the Australian College of Applied Psychology and a Master of Special Education from Macquarie University.

Jill began working with children with autism in India in 1999 and from there became a trained ABA therapist in 2001. Her role expanded when she became a Supervisor at the Early Autism Project in 2004. Her role as a Supervisor entailed one-to-one therapy, managing teams, training therapists and parents and program development.

Another passion of Jill’s is her work and dedication to a NGO based in Bangalore, India for street, slum and orphaned children. Jill travels to India every year to offer her skills and expertise as a Special Educator training teachers in the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis. In 2008 Jill spent 8 months working in India creating a special education program for children with learning difficulties. During this period she launched the “Making Up for Lost Time in Literacy” MULTILIT program created at Macquarie University in India and supervises the on going progress of the children and training of the teachers in MULTILIT and special education.

Her role as a Behaviour Support Educator at ABI has allowed her to fulfil her interests in working with families from a range of cultural backgrounds. Click here to contact us.