People in the Department

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
[email protected]

Administrative Assistant
Melissa Nevarez
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Core Faculty

Courtney Bishop

Courtney Bishop
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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

Andrew Bonner
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Available to supervise ABA students

nurturing communities; school-based prevention initiatives; family interventions; climate change and sustainability

Priscilla Burnham Riosa

Priscilla Burnham Riosa
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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

Jessica Cauchi
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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

Rosemary Condillac
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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

Alison Cox
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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

Kieva Hranchuk
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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

Joshua Jessel
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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

Associate Professor Julie Koudys

Julie Koudys
Associate Professor & Clinical Coordinator
[email protected]
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

Nicole Luke
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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 leaning against a railing

Laura Mullins
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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 standing in front of a bookshelf

Valdeep Saini
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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

Kendra Thomson
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Not available to supervise

translating evidence-based behavioural strategies to empower care providers, professionals, and people with developmental disabilities and their families

Lisa Whittingham

Lisa Whittingham
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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

Kimberley Zonneveld
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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

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

[email protected]

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