August 1996, and currently serves at NECC as the Director of Research.

He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in Northeastern University's

Master's program in Applied Behavior Analysis and Adjunct Faculty in

Western New England College's doctoral program. Bill was named the 2009

American Psychological Association - Division 25 awardee for Enduring

Contributions to Applied Behavioral Research. He also serves on the

Autism Advisory Committees for the Association of Professional Behavior

Analysts, the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and is Past

President of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy.

Bill's research interests include social skills in children with autism, verbal

behavior, assessment and treatment of stereotypy, severe problem

behavior, and pediatric feeding difficulties. He is also interested in

resistance to change, behavioral economics, and conditioned

reinforcement. His work has been published in the Journal of Applied

Behavior Analysis, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,

Behavioral Interventions, Behavior Modification, The Lancet, Journal of

Autism and Developmental Disorders and has written book chapters on

teaching children with autism and pediatric feeding problems in children

with autism. Bill is currently on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of

Applied Behavior Analysis, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, and Behavioral

Interventions and has served as a guest reviewer for several other

journals. He has also received grant funding through NIH and the

Organization for Autism Research.

doctorate from Florida State University in Special Education in 1970  His major

interests include applying behavior analysis principles to behavioral problems

exhibited by  people with disabilities and increasing the academic development

of children of poverty. Dr. Axelrod has served on the boards of editor of

several journals, including Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of

Behavioral Education, and Behavior Modification.  He has written numerous

journal articles and book reviews.  He is an author or editor of Behavior

Modification for the Classroom Teacher, Behavior Analysis and Treatment, and

How to Improve Classroom Behavior.  In 2006, Dr. Axelrod was the first

recipient of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s Michael Hemingway

Award for Distinguished Service to Behavior Analysis. In 1991 he was elected

Fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 2007, he was elected

Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis. In 2009, he received Florida

State University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, Distinguished Educator

category. Dr. Axelrod retired from Temple University in 2011 where he is now

Professor Emeritus.

Neuroscience at Allegheny College, where he has been since 1990.  Dr. Clark

received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in behavioral pharmacology from

Western Michigan University where he studied under the direction of Dr. Alan

Poling.  His undergraduate work was done at the California State University

Long Beach where he rediscovered B.F. Skinner and behavior analysis.  His

principle professional interests are behavioral pharmacology, teaching behavior

analysis, drugs and social issues, and biomedical ethics.  Dr. Clark has co-

authored or authored several papers on behavioral pharmacology and

olfactory discrimination.  He is currently developing courses on the application

of behavior analytical principles to contemporary environmental problems.

Gregory P. Hanley, Ph.D.


Dr. Hanley has been applying the principles of learning to improve socially

important behaviors of children and adults with and without disabilities for

over 20 years.  He worked and trained at the Spurwink School, the Groden

Center, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, was degreed at the University of

Florida, was tenured at the University of Kansas, and is currently an

Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Behavior Analysis

Doctoral Program at Western New England University.  Dr. Hanley has

published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals in areas such as the

assessment and prevention of problem behavior, teaching tactics for young

children, and evidence-based values.  Dr. Hanley is a Fellow of the American

Psychological Association (Division 25), the Editor of Behavior Analysis in

Practice (BAP), and a past Associate Editor of The Behavior Analyst, the

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and BAP.  Dr. Hanley’s current research

and practice activity is primarily focused on the development of effective

and practical strategies for preventing the development of children’s severe

problem behavior.

Philip N. Hineline, Ph.D.


After completing his B.A. at Hamilton College and Ph.D. at Harvard University,

Philip N. Hineline spent three years at the Walter Reed Army Institute of

Research before moving to Temple University, where he is now a Professor.

He routinely teaches at both basic and advanced levels and is very much

involved with the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Applied Behavior

Analysis, which he co-founded with Dr. Saul Axelrod, of Temple’s College of

Education. He has received several awards for excellence in teaching: In the

spring of 1999, he received the Eleanor Hofkin Award for Excellence in

Teaching, from the Alumni Association of the College of Arts and Sciences of

Temple University. The following year, he received Temple’s university-wide

“Great Teacher Award,” and the “Distinguished Teacher Award” from the

College of Arts and Sciences. More recently (2007), he received the Fred S.

Keller Behavioral Education Award from Division 25 of the American

Psychological Association. Also outside the University, he served first as

Associate Editor, as Editor, and then as Review Editor of the Journal of the

Experimental Analysis of Behavior.


He has been President of the Association for Behavior Analysis, as well as of

Division 25 of the American Psychological Association, the Eastern

Psychological Association, and the Society for the Experimental Analysis of

Behavior. In 1995 he received the Award for Distinguished Service from the

Association for Behavior Analysis, International, and in 2002, the Award for

Outstanding Contributions to Basic Research, from Division 25 of the APA.


His conceptual writing has focused upon the characteristics of explanatory

language and the role of those characteristics in controversies that have

confronted behavior analysis. A longstanding theme of his empirical research

has been that of temporal extension in behavioral / psychological processes

– as in choice between predictable and unpredictable outcomes and between

immediate vs. delayed consequences. In recent years his research has come

to include applied topics such as interventions for children with autism,

remediations for those who have suffered closed-head injury, and skill

acquisition for persons who work with those individuals. He is not currently

accepting new Ph.D. students, but mentors Masters’ students and new Ph.D.

students in collaboration with other faculty in the Program in Applied Behavior

Analysis (see especially Dr. James Connell, of School Psychology, and Dr.

Matthew Tincani, of Special Education).

Kimberly Schreck, Ph.D., BCBA


Dr. Kimberly Anne Schreck is an Associate Professor of Psychology and

Coordinator of the Applied Behavior Analysis Masters Program at Penn State

Harrisburg. She is a licensed psychologist and a board certified behavior

analyst. Her research and clinical expertise include autism, intellectual and

developmental disabilities, early intervention, feeding problems, children’s

behavior problems, and childhood sleep disorders. She has published over 20

articles, reviews, and portions of books on these subjects.

Laura Seiverling, Ph.D., BCBA-D


Dr. Laura Seiverling is a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA-D) and an

Assistant Professor of Psychology for the Applied Behavior Analysis Master’s

program at Penn State Harrisburg. She received her undergraduate degree in

Psychology from Temple University before earning her master’s degree from

Queens College (City University of New York) and doctorate in Learning

Processes and Behavior Analysis from the Graduate Center (City University of

New York). She completed a one year post-doctoral psychology fellowship at

the Westchester Institute for Human Development in Valhalla, NY before

joining Penn State. Dr. Seiverling is involved in many research projects

conducted through the Pediatric Feeding Clinic at Penn State Hershey Medical

Center. She has published over 15 articles and book chapters in the areas of

feeding problems, autism, staff and parent training, and applied behavior

analysis.