Zachary Crutchfield, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Automatic reinforcement
• Assessment and treatment of severe challenging behavior
• Functional analysis methodology
• Relapse phenomena 

Research Projects:

• Addressing antecedent exercise treatment failures with self-monitoring and contingent reinforcement
• Screening tools for automatic reinforcement systematic literature review

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant: Behavior Assessment & Intervention Planning in ABA
• Teaching Assistant: Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Teaching Assistant: Practicum 4 

Elaine Kim, M.S.,BCaBA

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Research Interests: 

• Unique Skill Acquisition Goals (e.g., music performance, safety skills)
• Trauma-Informed Care, Compassionate Care Skills, Consent Skills
• Application of Behavior Analysis in Niche Areas (e.g., music education, sports performance)

Research Projects: 

• Evaluating the Effects of a Pictorial Task Analysis with Instructions to Increase Piano Performance Skills 

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of ABA

Xinyue Wang, M.S.

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Research Interest:

• Cultural Adaptations and Responsiveness in Behavioral Interventions
• Behavioral Skills Training on Culturally and Linguistically Caregivers, Practitioners and Staff  

 

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Organizational Behavior Management

Rachel Brown, M.A.

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Research interests: 

• Applying evidence-based interventions in schools and in-patient hospital settings
• Caregiver training with behavioral skills training (BST)
• Behavioral gerontology
• Increasing acceptance and decreasing maladaptive behavior in children with pediatric feeding disorders
• Increasing lifestyle behavior
   

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Skills Assessment and Training in ABA
• Teaching Assistant: ABA in Complex Communities
• Teaching Assistant: Single Case Experimental Design 

Madelyn Mercado, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Applying Behavior Analytic Interventions to enhance Musical Performance
• Developing Objective Methods for Measuring Musical Accuracy
• Designing Efficient Training Procedures for Music Educators and Musicians

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Single Case Experimental Designs
• Instructor, Research Methods in ABA
• Teaching Assistant, Observational Methods and Functional Assessment
• Teaching Assistant: ABA Basic Principles

Research Projects Underway:

• Evaluating the Effects of Behavioral Skills Training and Shaping on Middle and High School Musicians' Major Scale Performance

 

Prerana Atreya, M.A., bcba

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Research Interests:

• Functional analyses variations, assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, teaching safety skills, culturally responsive assessments and treatments. 

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of Applied Behavior Analysis
• Co-Instructor: Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning
• Instructor: Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning
• Instructor: Observational Methods and Functional Assessments

 

 

 

Jade Santiago Rodrigues, M.A., BCBA, LBA

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Research Interests:

• Verbal Behavior
• Generative Verbal Behavior
• Stimulus Equivalence
• Bidirectional Naming
• Matrix Training

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Instructor: Organizational Behavior Management
  
• Teaching Assistant: Single Case Research Design
• Instructor: Ethics in Applied Behavior Analysis

Research Projects Underway:

Current research aims to investigate the relationship between the emergence of generalized bidirectional naming (BiN) and related behavioral repertoires, including recombinative generalization and stimulus class formation.

Kimberly Ford, M.A., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Skill Acquisition and Verbal Behavior
• Assessment and Treatment of Prompt-Dependent Behavior
• Assessment and Treatment of Challenging Behavior
• Alternatives to Physical Guidance

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Instructor: Fundamentals of Applied Behavior Analysis 
• Instructor: Observational Methods and Functional Assessment
• Instructor: Directed Research 1
• Teaching Assistant: ABA and Developmental Disabilities
• Teaching Assistant: Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Research Projects: 

• Parameter Manipulations during Skill Acquisition
• Assessment of Prompt-Dependent Behavior

Kyla Pagliai, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Functional analyses variations, assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, assessment instruments, and the evaluation of clinician effectiveness

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant: Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis
• Teaching Assistant: Single Case Experimental Design 
• Instructor:  Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis
• Instructor: Observational Methods and Functional Assessments

 

Claudia Reyes, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Behavior Reduction of High Intensity Problem Behaviors
• Reducing Reactivity in Treatment Integrity
• Staff Management
• Use of Technology in Self-Management
• Synchronous Reinforcement

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Instructor: Organizational Behavior Management 
• Instructor: Applied Behavior Analysis in Complex Community Environments
• Instructor: Ethics in Applied Behavior Analysis

Marqueline Cenatus, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Emotional and behavioral disorders
  Autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities
• Behavioral interventions in child welfare settings
• School-based behavioral interventions
• Caregiver and staff trainings
• Trauma-informed care

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Research Methods and Ethical Issues in Behavioral Analysis
• Practicum Seminar in Applied Behavior Analysis
• Supervision and Training in Applied Behavior Analysis

Research Projects Underway:

• Examining the effects of contingency mapping on young children diagnosed with ASD
• Development and evaluation of an asynchronous PTR training in a group home setting with children diagnosed with a developmental disability

Emma Devine, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Functional analysis methodology, screening and treatment of severe behavior, alternative methods of reinforcement, nontraditional applications of behavior analysis, and translational research.

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Instructor: ABA & Developmental Disabilities

• Teaching Assistant: Experimental Analysis of Behavior 1
• Instructor: Fundamentals of ABA
• Teaching Assistant: Practicum 3

Research Projects Underway:

• Reinstatement analysis: A comparison of extinction and differential reinforcement of other behavior

• The use of virtual reality to identify the function of covert behavior in an overt environment

• Functional analysis screening for automatic subtypes and the matching law

• A literature review of drowning prevention and autism spectrum disorder

Stephanie E. Howell, M.A., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Staff and volunteer training and management
• Reactivity
• Caregiver training
• Functional analysis methodology
• Body-focused repetitive behaviors
• Assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Instructor and Co-Instructor: Behavior Assessment and Intervention Planning
• Instructor: Observational Methods and Functional Assessment
• Instructor: Directed Research I and II
• Instructor: Practicum 2
• Instructor: Behavior Theory
• Teaching Assistant: Experimental Analysis of Behavior 

Research Projects Underway:

• Training and Managing Volunteers at an Animal Shelter
• A Functional Analysis of Antecedent Self-Statements on Hair Pulling in Individuals with Trichotillomania
• Assessing the Social Validity of Various Observation Modalities
• Evaluating Video Modeling to Teach Caregivers to Conduct Paired Stimulus Preference Assessments
• Synchronous Reinforcement on Exercise Pace

Lynette Johnson, M.S.Ed., BCBA

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Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant: Skills Assessment and Training in ABA
• Instructor: Skills Assessment and Training in ABA
•  Instructor: Skills Assessment and Intervention Planning
• Instructor: Practicum 3 Seminar
• Instructor: Directed Research 1

Research Projects Underway:

• A Scoping Review of Caregiver Training Methods in Behavior Analytic Research of Children

• Pyramidal behavioral skills training to increase behavior specific praise in juvenile residential staff

Anh Nguyen, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Assessment and treatment of severe challenging behavior
• Barriers to treatment effectiveness
• Staff training

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Co-Instructor: Organizational Behavior Management
• Doctoral Teaching Assistant: Behavior Theory
• Instructor: Directed Research
• Practicum 3

Mary (Max) Llinás, M.S., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Basic and translational research on automatic reinforcement
• Conceptual and theoretical analysis of behavior analysis
• Assessment and treatment of DSM-V disorders (e.g., eating disorders, anxiety, depression)
• Animal-assisted interventions

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Instructor: Behavior Assessment and Intervention Planning in ABA

• Instructor: Supervision in ABA

• Instructor: Directed Research 1

• Instructor: Directed Research 2

• Organizational Behavior Management

• Concepts and Principles of Behavior Analysis

• Behavior Pharmacology

Research Projects Underway:

• Prevalence and Mechanism of Automatically Reinforced Behavior

Arturo Garcia, M.A., BCBA

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Research Interests:

• Behavior analytic assessment and intervention for human trafficking and runaway youth

• Improving outcomes for system-involved children (child welfare, juvenile justice)

• Functional assessment of problem behavior, including automatically maintained behavior

Current Research Projects:

• Assessment tool for identifying runaway victims of commercial sexual exploitation

• Program evaluation of a housing program serving survivors of human trafficking

• Training staff to conduct the FAIR tool and create function-based interventions to address runaway behavior

Classes Taught or Currently Teaching:

• Behavior Assessment and Intervention Planning

• Ethics in ABA

• ABA in Complex Community Environments

• Directed Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences

Jesenia Giambrone, M.S., 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:

• Teaching Assistant: Fundamentals of Applied Behavior Analysis 
• Teaching Assistant: Observational Methods and Functional Assessment
• Instructor: Ethics in ABA
• Instructor: Behavior Theory

Ariadna Martinez, M.S., 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)

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)