Faculty Members of the Center

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

Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Genetic testing for hereditary cancer

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

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

Single case Design Research, Multi-tiered systems of Support, Early literacy and behavioral Intervention, Immigrant Family empowerment and engagement

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