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Maurice Feldman
Ph.D., C. Psych, BCBA-D - Professor
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Dr. Feldman is a scientist-practitioner with expertise in behaviour disorders, autism, developmental disabilities, child maltreatment, and parenting. He is a leading expert in parenting by persons with learning difficulties, having designed and scientifically validated a parent education program emulated worldwide. Currently, he is co-Principal Investigator (with Frances Owen) of the 3R's - Human Rights Training Project for Persons with intellectual disabilities. He has published extensively in peer-review journals and books, and has given numerous addresses and workshops.
Research Interests
- Early identification and intervention for children with or at risk for developmental, behavioural, emotional, psychiatric, and school problems.
- Atypical development, including autism, developmental disabilities, developmental psychopathology, dual diagnosis, behavioral genetics.
- Positive behavioural interventions for severe behaviour disorders.
- Parent, teacher and staff training.
- Child maltreatment and parenting, particularly related to child neglect and parents with learning difficulties
Recent Publications
Books
Feldman, M.A., & Aunos, M. (2010). Comprehensive competence-based parenting capacity assessment for parents with learning difficulties. Kingston, NY: NADD Press.
Peer-review articles
Feldman, M.A., McConnell, D., Aunos, M. (in press). Parental cognitive impairment, mental health and child outcomes in a child protection population. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities (invited peer-review).
McConnell, D., Aunos, M., Feldman, M. & Prasad, N. G. (in press). Parental cognitive impairment and child maltreatment in Canada. Child Abuse & Neglect.
Feldman, M.A., Ward, R.A., Regehr, K.D., Savona, D., Parker, K., Hudson, M., Penny, H., & Holden J.J.A. (2011). Development and initial validation of a parent report measure of the behavioral development of infants at risk for autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI 10.1007/s10803-011-1208-y
McConnell, D., Feldman, M., Aunos, M. & Prasad, N. G. (2011). Child maltreatment investigations involving parents with cognitive impairments in Canada. Child Maltreatment, 16(1) 21-32.
Mitchell, K., Regehr, K., Reaume, J., & Feldman, M.A. (2010). Group social skills training for adolescents with Asperger’s syndrome or high functioning autism. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 16(2), 53-63.
Regehr, K., & Feldman, M.A. (2009). Parent-selected interventions for infants at-risk for autism spectrum disorder and their affected siblings. Behavioral Interventions, 24(4), 237-248.
Schwartzman, L.J.V., Vause, T., Martin, G. L., Yu, C.T., Campbell, L., Danbrook, M., & Feldman, M.A. (2009). Predicting the learning ability of children with autism: The assessment of basic learning abilities test versus parents’ predictions. Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 44(2), 271-279.
Book Chapters
Aunos, M. & Feldman, M. (in press). Parenting by persons with intellectual disabilities. I. Brown & M. Percy (Eds), Developmental Disabilities in Ontario. Toronto, ON: OADD.
Feldman, M. (2010). Parenting education programs. In G. Llewellyn, R.Traustadóttir, D. McConnell, & H. Björg Sigurjónsdóttir (Eds.), Parents with intellectual disabilities: Past, present and futures. (pp. 121-136). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Richards, D., Miodrag, N., Watson, S.L., Feldman, M.A., Aunos, M., & Griffiths, D. (2009). Sexuality and human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities. In F. Owen & D. Griffiths (Eds.), Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities, pp. 184-218. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley.
Vause, T., Regher, K., Feldman, M.A., Griffiths, D., & Owen, F. (2009). Right to behavioral treatment for individuals with developmental disabilities: Issues of punishment. In F. Owen & D. Griffiths (Eds.), Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities, pp. 219-239. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley.
Manuals
Andrews, A., Bishop, C., Agnew, S., Hamelin, J., Griffiths. D., Owen, F., & Feldman, M. (2010). Teaching health self-advocacy skills to adults with intellectual disabilities. Welland, ON: Community Living Welland Pelham.
Agnew, S., Bishop, C., Gosse, L., Stoner, K., Vyrostko, B., Terreberry, T., Taruli, D., Tardif-Williams, C., Griffiths, D., Feldman, M., & Owen, F. (2010). Rights, respect and responsibility: Rights in everyday life. Welland, ON: Community Living Welland Pelham.
McConnell, D., Feldman, M., Aunos, M. & Prasad, N. (2010). Child welfare process and outcome, Caregiver cognitive impairment: Secondary analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2003). Family and Disability Studies, University of Alberta. ISBN: 978-1-55195-262-8.
Invited Presentations
Feldman, M.A. (2011, Nov.). Preventing child-neglect through contextual behavioral assessment and intervention. New York State Association for Behavior Analysis, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Feldman, M.A. (2011, Oct.). Parenting with an intellectual disability: Comprehensive assessment and intervention. Adult Protective Service Workers of Ontario, Annual Conference, Kempenfelt, ON
Feldman, M.A. (2011, Sep.). Comprehensive, competence-based parenting capacity assessment for parents with learning difficulties.. The Association for Successful Parenting, Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Feldman, M., & Luckasson, R. (2011, Apr.). Exclusion of children with disabilities from mainstream child development research. Invited views of two. Society for Research in Child Development, biannual conference, Montreal.
Feldman, M. (2010, Dec). Community based positive behaviour support and ABA Inaugural Keynote Address, Association for Behaviour Analysis India, First Annual Conference, Bangalore.
Feldman, M. (2010, Oct.). Preventing child neglect: Evidence-based parent education for parents with learning difficulties. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Feldman, M. (2010, May). Competence-based assessment for parents with learning difficulties. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Feldman, M. (2010, May). Competence-based assessment and intervention for parents with learning difficulties. VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Feldman, M. (2010, May). Preventing child neglect: Evidence-based parent education. Mini-conference on parents with learning difficulties. VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Feldman, M. (2010, May). Competence-based assessment and intervention for parents with learning difficulties. University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Feldman, M., Owen, F., & Griffiths, D. (2010, May). Health self-advocacy training for persons with intellectual disabilities. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Feldman, M. (2010, May). Preventing child-neglect through contextual behavioural interventions. National University of Ireland, Galway.
Feldman, M. (2010, Apr). Competence-based parenting capacity assessment for parents with intellectual disabilities. Human Rights and Intellectual Disabilities Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Feldman, M. , Andrews, A., & Hamelin, J. (2010, Apr). Teaching health self-advocacy skills to adults with intellectual disabilities. Human Rights and Intellectual Disabilities Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
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