My son Yogi started his ABA journey with Svetlana when he was 4 years old, he is 16 now. She has done tremendous change in Yogi’s early years education. Svetlana’s work ethics is incomparable. From assessment, therapy to training tutors, she keeps her standards very high. She has given the confidence to us the parents how to teach Yogi the skills and manage his challenging behaviour. She is always my go-to person for all Behavior Therapy related queries even after a decade and living in different parts of the globe. She also helps out our UK based Aim High 4 Autism support group by conducting webinars and courses to empower the parents and tutors. Svetlana, you make real positive difference in many autistic children and adults who struggle.

Ms. Svetlana Iyer is a strong and compassionate visionary. She sees a need in a community and then executes a viable and sustainable solution. She saw the need for an integrated community school in India that would address the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and created a Montessori-based school where she hired and trained teachers who nurtured children in a one-on-one setting until they were ready to mainstream into the Montessori classroom. This school has won national and international recognition and changed the lives of countless children and their families who would have otherwise been isolated and struggled with sub-par care. Ms. Iyer brought this vision to the United States, where in 2018, she created Stepping Stones Center for Families. Again, Ms. Iyer saw the need for, and then created a space for exceptional holistic behavioral care. I have been her colleague and friend and I have watched her train and then manage new Behavioral Analysts at Saint Elizabeth University, in New Jersey and at Christ University in Bangalore, India. I have witnessed her kindness and warmth while delivering behavioral interventions. Her interventions go beyond behaviorism and reach into more integrated spaces of the mind, body, and spirit by incorporating her Yoga Teacher training into her behavioral interventions. Stepping Stones Center for Families is an environment where children and their families can find a place of holistic healing and growth.

Svetlana is a master of her Craft. She observes and responds our children in a way no one else has. She responds with out judgment, taking simple play to a new level that teaches needed skills and she responds in complex environments to break down tasks and goals in to consistent strategies to develop better behaviors. When she explains strategies it seems simple but application of strategies is not easy and this is where you realize her amazing skill level. She is passionate, and patient, and can adapt to an ever changing environment creatively yet with consistent targets. I can not recommend her enough!