Expertise
Her career focus has been on promoting science, practice, and policy surrounding the development of effective and efficient intervention strategies to improve student academic and behavioral functioning.
Interests:
- Evidence-Based Interventions for behavior, communication, and health-related disorders.
- Mind-Body Health; Positive Psychology.
- Professional Issues related to School Psychology.
- Preschool-related Issues.
My research agenda originates from my passion and commitment to enhancing the overall functioning and well-being of children. As a school psychologist, I have focused my scholarship on effectively bridging the gap between research and practice to improve the academic, social, and emotional adjustment/functioning of children.
I have focused primarily on psychoeducational service delivery, in particular, school-based interventions to improve the outcomes of children with behavior, communication, homework, academic problems, and health-related disorders. I am particularly interested in understanding and influencing individual and class-wide interventions for these children and developing techniques that can be easily adopted by teachers and generalized to children experiencing different difficulties.
I have instead focused on group contingencies.
Most of my empirical research has employed single-subject design methodology with calculation of effect sizes to document the magnitude of the intervention effect, as well as to add rigor to my work.
My research on intervention strategies are evidence-based and meet the criteria put forth in these recent laws.
A secondary focus of my research and publications stems from my involvement in national leadership positions in school psychology.