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

Music's function in human development from the perspective of music education

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

Applied Behavior Analysis

Applied Behavior Analysis in the treatment of autism; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; auditory & visual discrimination learning; simulation in distance-learning applications.

Nutritional Epidemiology

Reaction engineering; chemical kinetics; reactor design; detailed kinetic modeling