Staff
Department Chair
Priscilla Burnham Riosa
Associate Professor
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Graduate Program Director
Kimberley Zonneveld
Associate Professor
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Academic Coordinator
Lisa Dilts
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Graduate Coordinator & Academic Advisor
Sha Uppal
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Administrative Coordinator
Brandy Sokoloski
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Administrative Assistant
Melissa Nevarez
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Core Faculty

Courtney Bishop
Assistant Professor
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Available to supervise ABA and LDCC students
human rights advocacy; development of accessible tools and assistive technologies; effective and efficient service systems; systems-level analysis and service framework evaluation; community-engaged participatory action

Andrew Bonner
Assistant Professor
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Available to supervise ABA students
nurturing communities; school-based prevention initiatives; family interventions; climate change and sustainability

Priscilla Burnham Riosa
Associate Professor
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Available to supervise ABA and LDCC students
therapeutic rapport; compassionate care; parent-child and family relationships; mental health; understanding family experiences of disability; strengths-based research; leadership and wellbeing in the workplace; community-engaged participatory research; mixed methods research; physical wellness interventions

Jessica Cauchi
Assistant Professor
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Available to supervise ABA and LDCC students
sexuality education for individuals with autism; conceptual analysis of rapport and effective training practices; evaluation of assent-based practices; teaching and evaluation of skill development across the lifetime

Rosemary Condillac
Associate Professor
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Available to supervise ABA and LDCC students
evidence-based and trauma informed practices in the assessment and treatment of challenging behaviour for individuals with disabilities; service recipient self-determination and agency in ABA services; diverse applications of ABA; ABA ethics; behaviour skills training and quality of behavioural interventions; DEI training and impacts; wellbeing of community practitioners, behaviour analysts, faculty and students; intersectional experiences of post-secondary students from marginalized groups

Alison Cox
Associate Professor
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Available to supervise ABA students
effects of psychotropic medication on behaviour; tool development and evaluation; program evaluation; examining systematic approaches to fading restraint and restrictive interventions

Carolyn Crysdale
Assistant Professor
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Not available to supervise
contingent vocal imitation; verbal behaviour interventions; joint attention; caregiver responsiveness to young autistic children; verbal behaviour intervention and treatment; infant behaviour interventions

Kieva Hranchuk
Assistant Professor
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Available to supervise ABA students
teacher/clinician training; supervision of evidence-based service delivery to clients with and without disabilities; data analysis techniques including decision analysis protocols and the use of artificial intelligence; verbal behaviour development; CABAS® (Comprehensive Application of Behaviour Analysis to Schooling) model; the behaviour science behind marketing and sales

Joshua Jessel
Assistant Professor
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Available to supervise ABA students
developing compassionate and trauma-informed methods for addressing complex behaviour exhibited by learners with intellectual and developmental disabilities specific to functional assessment and skill-based supports

Julie Koudys
Associate Professor & Clinical Coordinator
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Not available to supervise
improving supervisor skill repertoires and supervisee training experiences; enhancing behaviour analytic service provision through evidence-based approaches to collaborative care; strategies to improve the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems through parent training and effective instructional strategies; evaluating parent-implemented behavioural interventions to address sleep difficulties; diverse applications of ABA

Nicole Luke
Assistant Professor
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Not available to supervise
strategic science of instruction for both adult and child learners; verbal behaviour development; use of advanced technology like virtual reality to design learning environments

Laura Mullins
Associate Professor
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Not available to supervise
community-engaged participatory research to address individual, organizational, and systemic factors that affect the quality of life of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities; accessibility within post-secondary education; exploring applied behaviour analysis practices through an applied disability studies lens

Valdeep Saini
Associate Professor
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Available to supervise ABA students
understanding canine cognition through research on human–animal relationships, including dog-assisted therapy for autistic individuals, to strengthen the human–animal bond and improve human and animal welfare

Kendra Thomson
Associate Professor
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Not available to supervise
translating evidence-based behavioural strategies to empower care providers, professionals, and people with developmental disabilities and their families

Lisa Whittingham
Assistant Professor
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Available to supervise ABA and LDCC students
persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities (e.g., autism, FASD) and the criminal legal system; training justice professionals and first responders; construction of vulnerability and risk in persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities; the construction and embodiment of disability in first responders

Kimberley Zonneveld
Associate Professor
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Available to supervise ABA students
assessment and treatment of pediatric feeding difficulities; assessment and treatment of executive function skills; behavioural interventions that leverage technology and innovative teaching formats; using group contingencies and data-based decision systems to improve classwide performance and physical activity in educational settings; diverse applications of ABA
Emeriti - Core
Maurice Feldman
Professor Emeritus
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Cross appointed faculty
Maureen Connolly
Kinesiology
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Jan Frijters
Child & Youth Studies
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Tricia Vause
Child & Youth Studies
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Emeriti - Cross appointed
Dorothy Griffiths
Professor Emerita
Child & Youth Studies
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Frances Owen
Professor Emerita
Child & Youth Studies
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Participating faculty
Sheila Bennett
Education
David Ditor
Kinesiology
Gail Frost
Kinesiology
John McNamara
Child & Youth Studies
Shannon Moore
Child & Youth Studies
Christine Tardiff-Williams
Child & Youth Studies
Dawn Zinga
Child & Youth Studies
Adjunct faculty
Marjorie Aunos
Ivan Brown
Alexis Buettgen
Ivy Chong
Tom Craig
Carly Eby
Katherine Gallinger
Karl F. Gunnarsson
Rebecca Hansford
Barry Isaacs
Anita Kaiser
Darren Levine
Xudong Liu
Albert Malkin
Andrew McNamara
Christina Peters
Claudia Rubatto
Peter Sturmey
Tom Szabo
Valerie Temple
Ashan Veerakumar

