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Richard Saunders, Ph.D. Dr. Richard Saunders is a Senior Scientist in the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at the University of Kansas. He has had continuous research funding from NICHD since 1984 in the areas of stimulus equivalence/classification, treatment of aberrant behavior, and establishment of communication skills in persons with severe disabilities. Recently, he has received funding as a Co-Investigator from ADD, DED and NIDDK for weight loss and weight maintenance strategies for adults with intellectual or physical disabilities. Throughout his career, he has consulted extensively to agencies supporting persons with disabilities in educational, vocational, and residential settings. Presently, he is a consultant to the programs of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. |
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Muriel Saunders, Ph.D. Dr. Muriel Saunders has an extensive history in education and research. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor in the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies. She began her career teaching in regular and special education classrooms. She has been recognized for her excellence and innovation in teaching by the Council for Exceptional Children, receiving the Kansas Special Educator of the Year Award in 1990 and the international Clarissa Hug Teacher of the Year Award in 1991. Since then, she has conducted research funded by NICHD, first on positive behavioral interventions and recently on establishing communication in persons with multiple profound physical and intellectual disabilities. She is a Co-Investigator on a grant funded by NIDDK to study methods of reducing obesity in people with developmental disabilities. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on a grant funded by NIDRR to compare two weight loss programs for people with physical disabilities. |
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Mark Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA-D Dr. Sundberg received his doctorate degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from Western Michigan University (1980), under the direction of Dr. Jack Michael. Dr Sundberg is the co-author of the books Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities, The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills: The ABLLS, and A Collection of Reprints on Verbal Behavior. He has published over 45 professional papers, including a recent chapter titled “Verbal Behavior” in the new edition of Cooper, Heron, & Heward’s (2007) book Applied Behavior Analysis, 2e. He is the founder and past editor of the journal The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, a twice past-president of The Northern California Association for Behavior Analysis, a past-chair of the Publication Board of ABA International, and was a member of the committee that developed the BACB Task List. Dr. Sundberg has given over 450 conference presentations and workshops nationally and internationally, and has taught 80 college courses on behavior analysis, verbal behavior, sign language, and child development. He has received a number of awards, including the 2001 “Distinguished Psychology Department Alumnus Award” from Western Michigan University. He currently conducts research and consults to schools and programs in the San Francisco Bay area. |
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Jeannie Golden, Ph.D., BCBA Dr. Golden is a licensed psychologist who received her Ph.D. In school psychology from Florida state university in 1981. Dr. Golden has worked as a teacher and school psychologist and had a private practice in Greenville, NC, where she worked with children and adolescents with behavior problems and their families for over 15 years. Dr. Golden has taught in the Psychology Department at East Carolina University for 30 years, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied behavior analysis and conducts behavior therapy seminars for child psychiatry residents at the ECU School of Medicine. She became the first nationally board certified behavior analyst in North Carolina in December of 2000 and was given the Florida Association For Behavior Analysis Honorary Lifetime Membership Award in September of 1994 and the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis Fred S. Keller Excellence in Behavior Analysis Award in February of 2005. She also received the East Carolina University Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award in May of 2001and the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award in May of 2009. In July of 2008, Dr. Golden was awarded a $298,000 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds charitable trust entitled ECU-Greene County partnership to improve school-based mental health services. She then received a $600,000 Title V federal grant in January of 2011 to continue that partnership in Greene County and expand school-based mental health services to Rocky Mount. Dr. Golden has been a presenter throughout the United States, as well as in Belgium, Italy, England and Australia. |
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R.M. “Duke” Schell, Ph.D., BCBA-D Duke received his BA in psychology from the University of Florida with Hank Pennypacker. Following two years of work at Western Carolina Center with Jim and Judy Favell he completed his MS & PhD in psychology at Florida State University with Dr. Jon Bailey. He has worked in public residential facilities, day work centers and community homes in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina and North Carolina in varied clinical and administrative positions including the Director of Psychology at the J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center for the past 16 years. Duke has been President of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis and is the NCABA Liaison to ABAI. He has provided community consultations, expert witness work, and been involved with Dr. Denny Reid through the Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center in statewide efforts in SC to improve positive behavioral support services to people with ID/DD. |
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Dennis H. Reid, Ph.D., BCBA Dennis Reid received his Ph.D. from Florida State University. He has over 35 years experience as a manager and clinician, and has consulted with human service agencies in the majority of states of the United States as well as Canada and New Zealand. He has published over 130 refereed journal articles focusing on applied behavior analysis and authored or co-authored eight books. In 2007 he was awarded Fellowship status in the Association for Behavior Analysis International and in 2006 received the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities International Research Award. Dennis is the founder and current director of the Carolina Behavior Analysis and Support Center in Morganton, North Carolina. His company has employed adults with severe autism in a supported work capacity for the last 16 years. |
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Martin Ivancic, Ph.D., BCBA-D Dr. Ivancic received degrees from Case Western Reserve University, Western Michigan University, and Florida State University studying with Drs. Jon Bailey, Brian Iwata, and Dennis Reid in addition to completing an internship at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He has worked in the field of developmental disabilities and head injury for 36 years including work as a therapist, programmer, program director, director of staff development, behavioral consultant, psychologist, and senior psychologist. He is a Licensed Psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Currently, he is a Senior Psychologist at the J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center, Morganton, NC. He has published 19 research articles or chapters including work on skill training, staff management, reinforcer assessment, and happiness. He has participated with students and co-workers in over 200 data presentations addressing the clinical issues of his consumers emphasizing life-quality for people with profound, multiple handicaps. He is a member and past president of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis (NCABA) and a member of the International Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA). |
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Raymond C. Pitts, Ph.D. Raymond C. Pitts received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Florida in 1989. After a 2-year post-doc at the Wake Forest Medical School, he was a Research Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In 1996, he moved to the Psychology Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and has been there since. He achieved his current rank of Professor in 2005. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Behavior Analyst. His work has been supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and has been published in journals such as Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Psychopharmacology. He is a Fellow of Division 25 of APA, serves as a Program Co-Chair for ABAI, and serves as the Experimental Representative on the Executive Council of ABAI. |
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Carol Pilgrim, Ph.D. Dr. Carol Pilgrim received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1987 with a specialization in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. She is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she has been honored with a Distinguished Teaching Professorship, the North Carolina Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award, and the Faculty Scholarship Award. Her research contributions include both basic and applied behavior analysis, with an emphasis in human operant behavior, relational stimulus control, and the early detection of breast cancer. Dr. Pilgrim has served as editor of The Behavior Analyst, associate editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Behavior Analyst, co-editor of the Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, and as a member of the editorial boards of those and several other journals. She has served as President of ABA, SABA, Division 25 of the APA, and SEABA. Additionally, she has been Member-at-large of the Executive Council of ABA and Division 25, and member of the Boards of Directors of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Cambridge center for Behavioral Studies. |
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Jim Bodfish, Ph.D. Jim Bodfish, Ph.D. is the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is Director of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UNC. He received his degree in Psychology with a concentration in developmental disabilities research from the University of Alabama and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation. As a clinician he has worked in home, preschool, school and hospital settings with infants, children and adults with a variety of developmental disabilities. This includes extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of autism and related conditions with a focus on the integration of behavioral and medical approaches for treatment-refractory cases. Dr. Bodfish’s research has focused on the pathogenesis and treatment of repetitive behaviors, behavioral disorders, and movement disorders and has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, the American Journal of Mental Retardation, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Autism, Autism Research, the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, the Journal of Pediatrics, and the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Bodfish’s state, national, and international service activities include: standing member of the National Institutes of Health Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section; Associate Editor of the American Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Co-Chair of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Developmental Disabilities Task Force, Governor-appointed member of the NC Council on Developmental Disabilities; Senate Appointee of the NC Legislative Study Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorders; expert consultant for the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and faculty member of the International Congress on Movement Disorders. |
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Robert M. Miller, Ph.D. Dr. Miller is a graduate of Rutgers College and received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1973 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has spent most of his career in the field of developmental disabilities, as Unit Manager, Assistant Director of Psychology Services, Director of Psychology Services, and Director of Programs at Murdoch Center, Butner, NC. After retiring in 2001 he returned to Murdoch Center as Assistant to the Director. In 2010 he became Assistant to the Director at Central Regional Hospital. He has consulted with D.D. programs across North Carolina and in various states, including Colorado, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. He is the co-author of the widely used Murdoch Center Program Library, an extensive collection of task analyses for teaching basic skills to the severely and profoundly handicapped. |
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Ruth Hurst, Ph.D., BCBA-D Dr. Hurst has worked for over 30 years in the fields of autism, developmental disabilities, and severe and persistent mental illness. She received the MA in psychology from Drake University in 1979 and the Ph.D. in psychology from UNC-Greensboro in 2005. She worked as a psychologist for the state of Iowa before moving to NC in 1996 to work for the UNC TEACCH program. Following completion of her Ph.D., she spent five years on the faculty of the ABA concentration in the psychology department at UNC-Wilmington. Currently she is a clinical associate professor at UNC-CH, spending the majority of her time providing behavioral assessment and programming services at Central Regional Hospital. The rest of her time is spent teaching behavior analysis at the university. She is a past president of NCABA, a member of the board of the Autism Society of North Carolina, and an active member of the North Carolina Psychological Association. |
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Charles L. Wood, Ph.D. Charles L. Wood, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Special Education at UNC Charlotte. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Western Michigan University and M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis from The Ohio State University. His current teaching and research interests focus on instructional design, Direct Instruction, and applied behavior analysis. |
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Timothy D. Ludwig, Ph.D. Tim Ludwig earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech researching the benefits of employee-driven behavior based safety programs under E. Scott Geller. Dr. Ludwig is a professor at Appalachian State University where he was named a Distinguished Graduate Faculty for his contributions to the nationally recognized Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management Masters program. Dr. Ludwig's teaching has been recognized with the North Carolina University Board of Governors’ Excellence in Teaching award and he has been inducted into Appalachian State University's Academy of Outstanding Teachers. Dr. Ludwig is the chairperson of the Institutional Review Board at Appalachian State.
Dr. Ludwig is currently serving editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and is the past President of the Organizational Behavior Management Network. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles that empirically document the successes of methods to improve safety and quality in industry through behavior-based solutions. His books include Intervening to Improve the Safety of Occupational Driving which reviewed 10 years of behavior-based safety in the product delivery industry and Behavioral Systems: Understanding Complexity in Organizations which presented contributions from 15 top scholars and practitioners in the field of Behavior Systems Analysis. His upcoming books include Best-in-Class Safety which benchmarks how companies with the best safety records succeed and Ticklish Safety Tales: Stories with a Purpose which draws on his experience working internationally with safety programs. Dr. Ludwig serves on the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies’ Behavioral Safety Accreditation Board that reviews best-in-industry safety practices and offers independent, objective feedback on safety programs.
He has continued this research for two decades integrating his empirical findings into his safety consulting. Within his consulting practice Dr. Ludwig has helped design, deliver, and implement safety programs at Husky, Marathon Refining, Corning, Albany International, TRW Automotive, Eastman Chemicals, Domino’s Pizza, DRA of South Africa, Newmont, Andersen Windows, Carolina Medical Center, Kimberly Clarke, Connectiv Energy, Arizona Public Service Company, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), SuperValue, and Nucor Steel. He also has provided his expertise in Behavior Systems Analysis, Strategic Planning, and Human Resources Development to numerous private and government organizations over the past 15 years. Clients include the US Navy-Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), US Department of Energy, US Department of the Interior, National Grocers of Canada, the Deaconess Hospital System, Boyles Furniture, and Alex Lee Inc. of North Carolina. |
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Christine E. Hughes, Ph.D. Dr. Christine Hughes received her MS and PhD from the University of Florida in behavior analysis, completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and currently is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Dr. Hughes conducts translational research in the areas of punishment, schedules of reinforcement, and behavioral pharmacology, specifically the effects of prescription drugs on impulsive choices and on punished behavior. Dr. Hughes has been program chair for Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology for the Association for Behavior Analysis International, program chair, secretary, and president of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, and currently is President Elect of Division 25 – Behavior Analysis of the American Psychological Association. She also is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and is a member of the Society of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Board. |
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R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S. Dr. Codd is the president and founder of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC, P.A. located in Asheville, NC. He specializes in delivering and disseminating empirically-based treatments including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). He treats anxiety, mood and substance use disorders, but has particular interest in OC-Spectrum disorders. He completed his graduate training at the University of Florida and he maintains professional memberships in the Association for Behavior Analysis International and the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science. |
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Chad Drake, Ph.D. Dr. Drake has been an active student, researcher, and teacher of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory for the past 10 years. Much of his clinical experience has involved conducting ACT groups for PTSD, depression, and psychosis, and he is also an active researcher of behavioral measures of ACT processes, including a program of study using variations of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure. Currently he is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina Aiken, where he teaches graduate courses on behavioral, cognitive, and contextual approaches to psychotherapy. |
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Diane M. Browder, Ph.D. Diane M. Browder, PhD is the Lake and Edward P. Snyder Distinguished Professor of Special Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has over two decades of research and publications on teaching students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities. Dr. Browder was recognized for these achievements as the 2009 Distinguished Researcher by the American Education Research Association Special Education SIG and the 2009 First Citizen’s Scholar’s Award. Dr. Browder’s work also focuses on providing resources for practitioners that utilize and extend this research. She has coauthored several curricula published by Attainment including Teaching to Standards Math, Teaching to Standards Science, and the Early Literacy Skills Builder. She also is coauthor of the comprehensive textbook Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities published by Guilford Press. |
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Fred Spooner, Ph.D. Dr. Spooner has 25 years of IHE experience and 4 years of direct practical experience with learners who have severe disabilities. He has published over 100 articles, books chapters, and books on teaching individuals with severe disabilities. He has directed more than a $3 million of research and personnel preparation projects in the area of severe disabilities in the last two decades. Dr. Spooner was a trailblazer at UNC Charlotte in the creation of distance education coursework and the first faculty member at UNC Charlotte to use this teaching medium in special education. His work in distance education has received national attention through publications, presentations, and expert consulting. Dr. Spooner is past Co-editor of TEACHING Exceptional Children, an Associate Editor for Exceptional Children, Associate Editor of Teacher Education and Special Education (TESE), and currently is Co-Editor (with Algozzine) of TESE and The Journal of Special Education, in addition to serving as an Associate Editor for Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD). In 2003, he served as the guest editor for a set of articles in a special exchange series on defining scientifically based research for RPSD. Most recently, 2006, he co-edited a special issue of RPSD on accessing the general curriculum with Stacy Dymond and Craig Kennedy. During the last six years, Dr. Spooner has worked very closely with Dr. Diane Browder in the development and implementation of federally funded research projects in the area of alternate assessment, serving in the capacity of a research associate. |
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Bree Jimenez, Ph.D. Dr. Bree Jimenez received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Special Education. Before joining the faculty at UNC Greensboro she was the Lead Research Associate for Project MASTERY with the department of Special Education and Child Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Jimenez’s research interests include general curriculum access and assessments for students with intellectual disabilities, including autism.
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Ya-yu Lo, Ph.D. Ya-yu Lo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Special Education in the Department of Special Education and Child Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has been serving on the NCABA’s Executive Council since 2006, and is currently its Past President. Her research interests are in the areas of functional behavioral assessment, positive behavior supports, social skill instruction, urban students at risk for behavior disorders, and applied behavior analysis. She has extensive work with children and youngsters with challenging behaviors for over a decade, including two years of consultancy with delinquent juveniles on probation. She teaches graduate level courses in advanced classroom management and single subject research. She is the current President of the Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association (CAERDA). |
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Mark W. Stafford, MA, BCBA, LPA Mark W. Stafford, MA, BCBA, LPA Mark earned his Bachelor's (1977) and Master's (1990) Degrees in Applied Behavior Analysis from the psychology department at Western Michigan University. His graduate work was done under the direction of Jack Michael a leader in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior. While at WMU, Mark had the good fortune to work with Mark Sundberg, a current leading expert in the field of Verbal Behavior and autism treatment. Drs. Sundberg and Michael, sparked Mark's interest in B.F. Skinner's book Verbal Behavior and the application of the principals presented in that book to the training of language skills in children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Mark moved to North Carolina in 1991 and worked at Learning Services as a behavior analyst before moving on to providing psychological/behavior analysis consultation to group homes for children and adults and to families of children with developmental disabilities. He has also worked as a Staff Psychologist at the Murdoch Developmental Center. Mark began working as Director of Programs at the Mariposa School for Children with Autism in May 2010 and currently serves as the Interim Executive Director of the school. Mark has served on the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis since 2007 and is currently serving as President. Mark has authored or co-authored a number of publications, presentations, and workshops in the field of developmental disabilities with an emphasis on Verbal Behavior applications. |
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Thomas J. Thompson, Ph.D., LP-HSP Dr. Thompson is the Associate Director of Psychology Services at Murdoch Developmental Center. He has been a practicing behavior analyst for 33 years. He has been a licensed psychologist in North Carolina and supervisor for more than 20 years. Dr. Thompson has been a member of NCABA since 1990 and of NCPA since 1995, serving on the Legislative and Public Sector Committees. He is a past president of NCABA. He served on the North Carolina Psychology Board for 9 years. He has experience in writing rules adopted by the NC Psychology Board that impact the practice of behavior analysis. He has worked with NCPA on recommended language for the Autism Insurance Bill. He most recently he served as the co-chair of the NCPA workgroup which authored the committee substitute for HB 487. |
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Susan D. Flynn, M.A., BCBA Susan is a doctoral candidate in special education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has nine years of experience teaching students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and two years teaching students with high-incidence disabilities. Susan is currently a graduate research assistant for the CIRCLES Project, a Transition Outcomes for Special Education Secondary Students, Efficacy and Replication, Goal #3 IES research grant, and is developing a course for the new graduate certificate program in ASD at the university. Susan’s research interests include teacher training in behavioral assessments and interventions, applied behavior analysis, and students with ASD or serious emotional disabilities. |
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Bethany Smith, M.Ed. Bethany R. Smith, M.Ed. is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She completed both her undergraduate and Master's level course work at the University of Kentucky. Her current research interests include applied behavior analysis, systematic instruction, general curriculum access, alternate assessment, and instructional technology. She has over 10 years experience educating children with severe disabilities and has authored several manuscripts in peer-reviewed scholarly journals that focus on providing general curriculum access using research-based and evidence-based practices. In addition to being employed by the federally funded General Supervision Enhancement Grant, Bethany also works as an alternate assessment consultant for school districts in multiple states. |
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Keri S. Bethune, M.Ed., BCBA. Keri S. Bethune is a doctoral candidate in Special Education at UNC Charlotte. She earned her Master’s degree from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Her current research focuses on students with severe behavior challenges and applied behavior analysis. |
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Julie L. Thompson, M.Ed. Julie L. Thompson is a doctoral student in Special Education at UNC Charlotte. She earned her Master’s degree from UNC Charlotte. Her current research focuses on teaching academics to students with autism, Direct Instruction, and applied behavior analysis. |
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Ashley Bouknight Wingard, M.S. Ashley received her bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Carolina-Aiken. She then worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina for two years before coming to East Carolina University (ECU). She is currently a 4th year graduate student in the Health Psychology Ph.D. program at ECU with a concentration in Pediatric School Psychology. Her primary research interests include early intervention and child development. In addition, she is interested in applying behavioral techniques to mental health therapy for adolescents. |
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Ozalle M. Toms, M.Ed. Ozalle received her B.A. in Special Education from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2002 and her M.Ed. in Learning Disabilities from East Carolina University in 2005. Ozalle has taught students with learning disabilities, emotional impairments, autism, mild and moderate cognitive impairments, traumatic brain injuries and other health impairments in an inclusive high school setting and in a separate public school. She was a classroom teacher for 8 years before pursuing her doctorate degree as a full-time student. Currently, she is working part-time as a graduate assistant on the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) grant at UNC Charlotte. She is also a doctoral student in the Special Education and Child and Family Development Department at UNC Charlotte, specializing in culturally responsive instruction and behavior management of at-risk students. |
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Adrienne Anderson, M.Ed. |
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Kelly L. Hughes, B.A. |
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Megan Brandon, B.A. |