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Steve Anderson, Ph.D BCBA-D


Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Developmental and Child

Psychology from the University of Kansas.  He has served as

Adjunct Assistant Professor at number of colleges and

universities including the University of Kansas, Northeastern

University, the State University of New York at Buffalo and

Buffalo State College.  Dr. Anderson currently is the Chief

Executive Officer of Summit Educational Resources in Amherst,

New YorkSummit serves children and young adults with

developmental disabilities, including autism, through a

comprehensive system of early intervention, preschool, schools,

and consulting programs.  Dr. Anderson also is a reviewer for a

number of professional journals and has published many journal

articles, book chapters, and one book on the education and

treatment of children with developmental disabilities.  As a

licensed psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Dr.

Anderson has worked in the autism field for more than 30 years

and has served as an expert witness and consultant.




 


Jon Bailey, Ph.D., BCBA-D


Dr. Bailey received his PhD from the University of Kansas and is currently

Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Florida State University where he

was on the Graduate faculty for 38-years and produced a record 63

PhDs.  He is currently Co-Director of the FSU Panama City Masters

Program in Applied Behavior Analysis, recently cited in the New York

Times as one of the top applied behavior analysis programs in the

country.

He is President of Behavior Management Consultants, Inc., is Board

Certified Behavior Analyst; and has been an Expert Witness for the US

Department of Justice and is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior

Analysis: International and the American Psychological Association. He

Past President of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts and is

Secretary/Treasurer of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis which

he founded in 1980.

Dr. Bailey has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles, is a

past-Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and is co-author

of four recent books: Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis, How

Dogs Learn, Ethics for Behavior Analysts, How to Think Like a Behavior

Analyst, and most recently 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Professional

Behavior Analysts, all co-authored with Dr. Mary Burch.

His hobbies include photography, videography, and dog training; he has

trained his Welsh Springer Spaniel “Wyn” for both Obedience and Agility

competitions; Wyn has been ranked #1 in the country for his breed in both

performance events.





Mary Burch, Ph.D., BCBA


Dr. Burch is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist. Dr. Burch is an

award-winning writer and she has had media training. She has

published eight books and over 200 articles. Dr. Burch has been a

reviewer for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and her

behavioral research has been published by the U.S. Department of

Education. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and

Authors and she is known for her writing about ethics and behavior

analysis in animal training. In addition to the books she has co-

authored with Dr. Jon Bailey, Dr. Burch is the author of the books

Volunteering with Your Pet, Wanted: Animal Volunteers, and The Border

Collie, An Owner’s Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet.





Jeannie Golden, Ph.D.


Dr. Jeannie Golden is a Licensed Psychologist who received her Ph.D. in

School Psychology from Florida State University in 1981.  Dr. Golden has

worked as a teacher and school psychologist and had a private practice in

Greenville, NC, where she worked with children and adolescents with

behavior problems and their families for over 15 years.  Dr. Golden has

taught in the Psychology Department at East Carolina University for 28

years, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied

Behavior Analysis and conducts Behavior Therapy seminars for child

psychiatry residents at the ECU School of Medicine.  She became the first

nationally Board Certified Behavior Analyst in North Carolina in December of

2000 and was given the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis Honorary

Lifetime Membership Award in September of 1994 and the North Carolina

Association for Behavior Analysis Fred S. Keller Excellence in Behavior

Analysis Award in February of 2005. She also received the East Carolina

University Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award in May of

2001and the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching

Award n May of 2009. In July of 2008 Dr. Golden was awarded a $298,000

grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust entitled ECU-Greene

County Partnership to Improve School-Based Mental Health Services.

Dr. Golden has been a presenter throughout the United States, as well as

in Belgium, Italy, England and Australia.





Helen Hendy, Ph.D.


Dr. Hendy received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California,

Riverside. She is currently an Associate Professor and Psychology

Program Coordinator at the Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill

Campus. She has received numerous awards, grants and honors, most

recently the 2010 Citation Award for Research Excellence from the Society

of Behavioral Medicine for "The Parent Mealtime Action Scale (PMAS): 

Development and association with children's diet and weight"  (with Dr. Keith

Williams, Feeding Program, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Mr.

Thomas Camise, Schuylkill Haven Area School District).

Dr. Hendy is also a reviewer for a number of professional journals and has

published many journal articles and book chapters. During and after

graduate school, Dr. Hendy's research interest was in primatology and

the behavioral development of animals.  By early 1990, she changed the

focus from basic research in animal behavior to more applied research in

health psychology so that her research program would better serve her

students and the community. Dr. Hendy's present research program

examines: Parent mealtime actions associated with children's diet and

weight status; School programs to improve children's diet and weight status

Food and mood relationships in young adults; "Clusters" of violence in the

close relationships of adults.




      


Naomi Swiezy, Ph.D., HSPP

Dr. Swiezy joined the faculty at Indiana University School of

Medicine in 1998 and specializes in Applied Behavior Analysis

(ABA), caregiver training, and the behavioral assessment and

treatment of autism spectrum disorders. She was named the Alan

H. Cohen Family Scholar of Psychiatry in July, 2007 and is an

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry.

Dr. Swiezy functions as the Clinical Director of the Christian

Sarkine Autism Treatment Center, directing the programming and

coordination of clinical services of the Center. She provides

consultation in clinic as well as in the community through home

intervention and school training contracts and is the behavioral

team leader on a multisite NIMH-funded study. In 2004, Dr.

Swiezy developed the HANDS in Autism (Helping Answer Needs by

Developing Specialists in Autism) training model and currently

serves as Program Director. This program was designed to provide

intensive training of professional staff working in educational

environments with individuals across the spectrum and has been

funded by the Centers for Disease Control, the Nina Mason Pulliam

Trust as well as the Indiana State Department of Education. Dr.

Swiezy is a Co-chair of the Task Force on Autism Spectrum

Disorders through the Indiana State Department of Education,

Division of Exceptional Learners and is an editorial board member

of the peer-reviewed journal, Research in Autism Spectrum

Disorders.