UMass Lowell will resume on-campus instruction, research and campus life for Fall 2020. View the plan for more info.
Development of children and youth: Disability and individual differences; family and school; foster care and adoption; basic mechanisms in autism and other developmental disorders; sibling relationships among children with autism; school-to-prison pipeline.
Research methods, statistics, adolescent psychopathology, emerging adulthood
Labor economics, the economics of disability, applied econometrics, scholarship of teaching and learning
Music education
Autism spectrum disorder; adolescents and young adults; adult outcome, transition; employment; college/university; mentoring
Applied Behavior Analysis
Developmental psychology, especially language development, narrative, and life stories
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders; students with learning disabilities; positive behavior supports; single-case research; observation research; What Works Clearinghouse certified reviewer of single-case research
Pain in Children, School Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
Bioethics, Philosophy of Disability, Continental Philosophy, Social Epistemology
Applied Behavior Analysis in the treatment of autism; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; auditory & visual discrimination learning; simulation in distance-learning applications.
Nutritional Epidemiology
Special Education with a focus in early intervention for students with learning and/or emotional and behavioral disorders.
Reaction engineering; chemical kinetics; reactor design; detailed kinetic modeling