Congratulations to Avery Keith for successfully defending her thesis entitled, Acquisition of Joint Attention Skills in Children with Cortical Visual Impairment, on January 20th, 2022! The examination committee included Tony Volk, Chair; Nicole Luke, Supervisor; Hannah Hoch, External Examiner (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology, Barnard College); Rosemary Condillac, Graduate Program Director; and Priscilla Burnham Riosa and Veena Dwivedi, Committee Members.
Avery is proud to be the first graduating MA student from Dr. Luke’s lab and is happy to see the Luke Lab develop and expand with each new MA student! Going forward, Avery is excited to start a new job in the field of applied behaviour analysis and to continue pursuing her diverse research interests alongside the Luke Lab. She will be presenting her research at the upcoming annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) held in Boston, Massachusetts in May 2022, as well as at their international conference in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2022. Avery is also currently working towards attaining her graduate-level certification in behaviour analysis.