Education
PhD, University of Florida
More details available on my LinkedIn
Background
I advise qualified doctoral students who are employed at The New England Center for Children or other local agencies and those who are Fellows on the WNE campus. I also advise students in the MS in ABA program. I will be accepting students in both programs for Fall 2026.
Interests
I have published applied and translational research on a wide range of topics. Visit my ORCID page for a complete list.
My current emphasis is on mentoring students in applied research aimed at improving their practice. I have listed a few current and recently completed projects along with the name of the student leading the project:
- Teaching Children with Autism to Tact Emotions Using an Intervention Based on Skinner’s Analysis of Private Events (Annalynn Barkhimer)
- Teaching Children with Autism to Mand for Choice-Making Opportunities (Sarah Kong)
- Training residential staff to offer choice-making opportunities (Sierra Leek)
- The Effects of Pre-Session versus Post-Session Choice on Academic Responding (Angela Rezuke)
- Using a Concurrent-chains Arrangement to Offer Choices of Daily Activities for Autistic Students (Madeleine Klibonoff)
Courses Taught
- PSY 505 Methods of Evaluation
- PSY 509 Ethics and Professional Issues
- PSY 610 Professional Issues, Ethics, and Research Design
- PSY 740 Developmental Psychology
- PSY 770 Teaching in the College Environment
