PhD in ABA

Arturo Garcia, M.A., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• ABA in Child Welfare and foster care system
• ABA within Department of Juvenile Justice
• Assessment and acquisition of verbal behavior
• Assessment and treatment of automatically maintained problem behaviors

Current Research Projects:

• An experimental analysis of voice volume for children with autism spectrum disorder

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning in ABA (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• Single Case Experimental Design (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)

Jesenia Giambrone, MS, BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior
• Contextual variables and barriers to treatment effectiveness
• ABA and the treatment of symptoms of mental diagnoses (RAD,
  ODD, PTSD)

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Fundamentals of Applied Behavior Analysis (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• Functional Assessment (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)

Ariandna Martinez, MS, BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Autism/developmental disabilities
• Assessment and treatment of problem behavior
• Skill acquisition
• Early intervention and family centered intervention
• Caregiver and teacher training

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• ABA Graduate Practicum Seminar (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• ABA Undergraduate Practicum Seminar (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)

Sharayah Tai, M.S., BCBA

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Research interests:

• ABA in health, sports, and fitness
• Increasing long-term motivation in individuals
• Enhancing athletic performance and improving athletic behaviors to reduce injury-risk factors

TA courses:

• Research Methods and Ethical Issues in ABA
  Basic Principles of ABA

Shreeya Deshmukh, M.S.

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Research Interests:

• ABA and health, sports, and fitness
• Behavioral interventions and coaching procedures
• ABA therapy in a dance context

Current Research Projects:

• A comparison of the effectiveness of verbal feedback and video feedback to improve dance skills
• An analysis of the accuracy and completeness of verbal and video feedback during dance training
• Reviewing behavioral interventions used to promote physical activity in individuals with IDD
  
  

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• ABA in Complex Communities (Instructor)
• Research Methods and Ethical Issues in Behavior Analysis (Instructor)
• ABA Basic Principles (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)

Asha Fuller, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Behavioral interventions in child welfare settings
• Interventions for addiction recovery and maintenance
• Teaching safety and self-advocacy skills
• Staff training
• Translational research

Current Research Projects:

• A systematic review of delay discounting and alcohol use interventions in humans
• Evaluating BST to teach identification of choking hazards to substitute caregivers
• A meta-analysis of behavioral interventions in child welfare settings 
   

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Observational Methods and Functional Analysis (Instructor)
• Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning in Applied Behavior Analysis (Instructor)
• Applied Behavior Analysis in Complex Community Environments (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• Experimental Analysis of Behavior (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• Single Case Experimental Design (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)

Justin B Han, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests: 

• Functional Analysis Methodology and Training
• Assessment and Treatment of Problem Behaviors
• Cultural Adaptation of Behavior Technology
• Translational Research

Research Projects Underway: 

• Visual-Inspection Fidelity of Functional Analysis 
• Implementation and Efficacy of Indirect and Descriptive Assessment  

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching: 

• Fundamentals of Applied Behavior Analysis (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• Visual-Analysis of Functional Analysis Data (Graduate Level) 

Alyssa Rojas, M.S., RBT

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Research Interests:

• Prevention of problem behavior
• Assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior
• Assessment and treatment of automatically maintained problem behavior
• Early intervention
• Interdisciplinary school-based intervention
• Teacher training

Current Research Projects:

• Systematic literature review of antecedent based strategies for vocal and motor stereotypy
• Precursor Identification Assessment
• Descriptive study on appropriate behaviors of typically developing preschoolers
• Function analysis of topographies of problem behavior

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Applied Behavior Analysis in Autism and Developmental Disabilities (Instructor)
• Applied Behavior Analysis in Autism and Developmental Disabilities (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)
• Practicum Seminar (Doctoral Teaching Assistant)

Danielle Russo, M.S., BCBA

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 Research Interests:

• Multidisciplinary school-based services
• Assessment and treatment of problem behavior
• Evidence-based staff training
• Early intervention
• Increasing quality of school-based behavioral assessment and intervention

Current Research Projects:

• Using class-wide intervention to increase handwashing in schools
• Review of multicomponent function-based interventions implemented by school personnel for students with disabilities
• Review of teacher training on use of function-based interventions for students with disabilities
• Evaluation of teacher-implemented latency-based functional analysis and intervention in the classroom setting

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Functional Assessment (Teaching Assistant)
• Behavior Modification (Teaching Assistant
• Practicum Seminar in ABA (Co-Instructor)
• Practicum Seminar in ABA (Instructor)

Rasha Baruni, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• BST and safety skills
• Clinical practices and safety skills training for children with ASD
• Increasing behavior variability for children with ASD using lag schedules of reinforcement
• Assessment and treatment of problem behavior

Current Research Projects:

• A survey of safety skills training
• An evaluation of an enhanced safety skills program for practitioners
• Critical issues in teaching safety skills to children
• An evaluation of video self-modeling to teach firearm safety skills
• An evaluation of parent implemented web-based behavior skills training for firearm safety skills
• Using behavioral skills training to increase fidelity of staff room searches at a juvenile residential facility
• Passive cooperation: A review of procedures to teach tolerance of unavoidable aversive events in daily life for individuals with autism or related disabilities
• Evaluating behavioral skills training to train online gaming safety skills
• Teaching poison safety skills to children with autism using small-scale simulation training

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Fundamentals of ABA (Co-instructor)

• ABA Basic Principles (Teaching Assistant)

• Fundamentals of ABA (Instructor)

• Behavior Assessment and Intervention Planning (Instructor)

• Supervision in ABA (Instructor; Fall 2021)

Amalix Flores, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Translational Research
• Adventitious reinforcement of problem behavior/ errors
• High-Probability Instructional Sequence Procedural Variations and Effectiveness

Research Projects Underway:

• High-Probability Instructional Sequence: A Review on Current Procedural Variations

• A Survey on Current Practices for Designing and Implementing High-Probability Instructional Sequences

• The Effects of Choice on High-Probability Instructional Sequence Effectiveness

• Assessment of the Reinforcer Value of High-Probability Instructional Sequence

• Behavioral Principles Survey

• Evaluating the Effects of Multiple Exemplar Training on Tact-to-Mand Transfer in Children with Autism

• Evaluating the Class Pass Intervention: Reducing Disruptive Behaviors of Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Single-Case Experimental Design

  Child Clinical Psychology- Behavior Therapy

• Basic Statistics

• Psychology: Basic Process

• Behavior Modification

• Research Methods

• Health Socio-Anhropology

• Practicum Seminar in Applied Behavior Analysis

• Applied Behavior Analysis and Developmental Disabilities

• Practicum in Applied Behavior Analysis

Karie John, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Assessment and Treatment of Severe Problem Behavior
• Caregiver and Staff Training
• Early Intervention
• Choice and Preference
• Translational Research

Research Projects Underway:

• Some Effects of Functional Analysis Outside of Session
• Training Board Certified Behavior Analysts via Telehealth to Conduct Trial-Based Functional Analyses
• Training Undergraduate Students to Conduct Trial-Based Functional Analyses
• Evaluating Video Modeling to Teach a Block Schedule Trial-Based Functional Analysis
• Evaluating Some Effects of Delay to Reinforcement with Individuals with an Intellectual or Developmental Disability
• Training Parents to Implement Trial-Based Functional Analyses
• Training Caregivers to Conduct Preference Assessments via Telehealth

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Applied Behavior Analysis and Basic Principles
• Practicum II
• Functional Assessment
• Behavior Assessment and Intervention Planning (Spring, 2020, Summer 2020, & Fall 2020)
• Single Case Design (Teaching Assistant)
• Experimental Analysis of Behavior (Teaching Assistant)
• Applied Behavior Analysis and Complex Communities (Teaching Assistant)
• Fundamentals of Applied Behavior Analysis (Teaching Assistant)
• Applied Behavior Analysis and
• Developmental Disabilities (Teaching Assistant)

Daniel Kwak, M.A., M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Social validity and cultural responsiveness
  • Evaluating quantitative and qualitative methods of assessing social validity
  • Consideration of culture in assessment, training, and intervention in behavior-analytic research and service provision
• Measurement and analysis
  • Application of visual analysis and statistical methods to quantify and synthesize data from single-case experimental designs
• Efficiency and resource allocation
  • Using a tiered approach and data-based decision-making in training and intervention delivery

Research Projects Underway:

• Using behavioral skills training with self-monitoring to increase conversation skills in adolescents with ASD
• An evaluation of teacher-implemented latency-based functional analysis and intervention in the classroom setting
• School professional coaching on facilitation of prevent-teach-reinforce (PTR) model for students with persistent problem behavior
• Evaluating methods of assessing social validity: A comparison study
• Using data-based multicomponent class-wide intervention to increase handwashing in schools
• A meta-analysis of high-quality studies on training educators to implement behavioral interventions
• Cultural responsiveness in education services: A systematic review
• Implementing the Class Pass Intervention within schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports
• Using percentile schedules of reinforcement to increase on-task behavior

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Observational Methods and Functional Assessment
• Research Methods and Ethical Issues in Behavior Analysis
• Applied Behavior Analysis in Autism and Developmental Disabilities
• Functional Assessment
• Psychological Methods: Research Procedures
• Gaps in Educational Opportunity and Achievement

Trevor Maxfield, M.A., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Safety Skills

• Incorporation of technology into treatment

Research Projects Underway:

• An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Bullying Interventions: A Meta-Analysis
• Video Self-modeling to Teach Firearm Safety Skills
• Evaluation of Parent Implemented Web-Based Behavior Skills Training for Firearm Safety Skills Group Study

Classes taught or currently teaching:

• Practicum in Applied Behavior Analysis

• Research Methods and Ethical Issues in Applied Behavior Analysis