My name is Abby Rivera, I am currently the Bilingual State Coordinator and Parent-School-Partnership Mentor for The Autism Society of SC.  As a bilingual mentor I support parents and school personnel establish partnerships to strengthen the child’s education, increase parents’ knowledge and skills in self advocacy, offering support in resolving problems and reaching solutions. I help families find and make connections with services in their own community. I provide parent support and information to families whose first language is not English. I ensure that families in the Latino community have information that can help support them, their child or loved who are in the Autism Spectrum or is affected by an Intellectual Disability (ID).
  I enjoy learning how to best help others in my community and our state of S.C.  I earned an Associate of Applied Science in Business, a B.S. in Psychology from Columbia Southern University, and attended Midlands Technical College earning a Certificate in Health Care.
  In the past I enjoyed volunteering in local hospitals in my community while living in Greenville S.C. at Shriners Hospital for children in Greenville SC, Landstuhl Germany for the Red Cross as a volunteer for the Wounded Warrior at Landstuhl Hospital in Kaiserslautern Germany and at Palmetto Richland Hospital Columbia S.C.