Education

Providence College B.A.

University of Rhode Island M.A.

Temple University M.Ed.

University of Rhode Island Ph.D.

Interests

Memberships

Publications/Papers

Book Review: Grigorenko’s Education Individuals with Disabilities: IDEIA 2004 and Beyond, “Keeping Up With the Legal Aspects of our Field” (with A. Chait), PsycCritiques (54)8. Other

Book Review: Burns & Gibbons’ Implementing Response-to-Intervention in Elementary and Secondary Schools: Procedures to Assure Scientific-Based Practices, “A guide through rough territory,” PsycCritiques (54)3. Other

Book Review: Rimland’s Dyslogic Syndrome: Why Millions of Kids are Hyper, Attention-Disordered, Learning Disabled, Depressed, Aggressive, Defiant, or Violent—and What We Can Do About It, “Doing Anything that Needs to be Done to Help Children,” PsycCritiques (53) 42. Other

“Motora Yuzero and the Birth of Academic Psychology in Japan” (with A. Hyuga), Annual Meeting, Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2008. Presentation

“Evaluation of an Autism Awareness Program for Typically Developing 8th Graders” (with others), Annual Meeting, Association for Psychological Science. San Francisco, CA, May 2009. Presentation

“Preparing for Graduate School in Psychology: A Mini-Workshop” (with others), Annual Meeting, Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009. Presentation

“Concurrent Validity Study of the Golden Stroop vs. the Computer Stroop: Do They Measure the Same Construct?” (with A. Moniz), Annual Meeting, Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009. Presentation

“Stroop Interference and Working Memory: Measurement Differences” (with J. Grieco), Annual Meeting, American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, August, 2008. Presentation

“An Analysis of the Treatment of Vocal Stereotypy in Children with Autism” (with others), Annual Meeting, Association of Applied Behavior Analysis, San Diego, CA, May, 2009. Presentation

Research and Scholarly Achievements

Six 2-hour workshops, Families for Effective Autism Treatment of Rhode Island, The J. Arthur Trudeau Center Memorial Center, Warwick RI, 2009.

Awards