About Us

Adele Saccarelli Cavallaro, Founder of Teamwork Wins

Adele has a B.S. in Education & a Pennsylvania and Kansas Teaching Certificate. Her outstanding teaching background includes over 7 years of teaching in the public school system, the prison system, the military, as well as the Montessori schools. Prior to joining ADD Coach Academy, Adele spent five years recruiting for a large recruiting firm. In November 2002, Adele started her own recruiting firm called, Recruitment and Coaching Services Inc.

 

Rachael Simms, ASD Connections

Rachael has, for 11 years, been working within Autistic space supporting individuals with social challenges.

Rachael has worked within the District of Philadelphia and Souderton Area School District supporting kids with invisible challenges, specializing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. In addition to working within the public school system, Rachael has worked as a case manager, autism consultant, behavioral specialist, social skills group facilitator, camp director, autism mentor and an adjunct professor at Gwynedd-Mercy College teaching human behavior and other related classes. Today, she works as the director of the Autism Services at Teamwork Wins, Ltd., and is an Autistic Support teacher within the Souderton School district.

Growing up, Rachael struggled with trying to make sense of her own invisible challenges (depression, anxiety and inattentiveness) which lead her to study human behavior and earn a degree in Social Work. As a social worker, she worked within the home and school settings supporting children with similar invisible challenges including Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). She had developed an enthusiasm for working with kids with ASD and continued her education receiving a Masters of Special Education in 1999.

In 2001, while working as a teacher in the District of Philadelphia, she began to realize how her personal issues were affecting her teaching. The traditional methods of personal growth she had been utilizing were no longer enough for her. She knew there had to be more. She stepped outside her box and found someone who was working "outside of the box," Michael Cavallaro. After a year of working with him and utilizing the new "out of the box" techniques her paradigms began to shift. She was experiencing significant, positive and permanent changes in her own life, taking her beyond coping. The techniques have empowered her with the motivation and ability to clear the blockages that prevented her from obtaining the joy that she knew existed.

She is now working to incorporate these skills, in addition to interventions that already exist, to help create the possibility of the same permanent change for individuals with ASD.