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Howard Adelman School Mental Health Project Center for Mental Health in Schools UCLA	Areas of expertise include: youngsters in school settings who manifest learning, emotional and behavioral problems school & community efforts to address barriers to learning
Bob Algozzine Faculty Development and Research College of Education/UNC - Charlotte	Areas of expertise include: all categories of mild disabilities psychoeducational assessment effective teaching educational research and evaluation studies
Carmen Arreaga-Mayer Juniper Gardens Children's Project University of Kansas	Areas of expertise include: educational interventions development/quantitative research culturally and linguistically diverse populations applied behavioral analysis observational technology/ ecobehavioral observational assessment
Janice Baker Vanderbilt University	Areas of expertise include: academic and social skills instruction for students with emotional or behavioral disorders school factors that affect effective practices for students with EBD.
George M. Batsche Institute for School Reform Integrated Services and Child Mental Health and Educational Policy University of South Florida	Areas of expertise include: development and evaluation of classroom and building-level behavioral intervention programa for at-risk students, their parents, and teachers Home-school-community linkages.
Sheldon Braaten Behavioral Institute for Children and Adolescents	Areas of expertise include: training of personnel treatment of students with emotional and behavioral problems evaluation of programs assessment program design staff development
Larry K. Brendtro Reclaiming Youth	Areas of expertise include: treatment & education of troubled children and youth "Life Space Crisis Intervention" and "Positive Peer Culture" national training institute on troubled youth "The Black Hills Seminary"
Tanis Bryan Arizona State University	Areas of expertise include: research and intervention on the social problems of students with emotional and behavioral disorders and learning disabilities model assessment of problems and intervention through a social science curriculum (Amazing Discoveries)
Michael Bullis University of Oregon Department of Special Education and Community Resources	Areas of expertise include: school-to-work transition programs adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems social skills in transition
Lyndal Bullock University of North Texas	Areas of expertise include: emotional/behavioral disorders working with parents/caregivers
Doug Cheney University of Washington	Areas of expertise include: collaborative practices and effective strategies that support students with emotional/behavioral disabilities in school productive school-family partnerships school to community transition of youth/young adults with emotional/behavioral disabilities.
Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark Department of Child and Family Studies Florida Mental Health Institute	Areas of expertise include: individualized wraparound processes for treating children transition of youth and young adults into employment, educational opportunities, and independent living other issues relating to children with emotional and behavioral disturbances and their families
Joseph J. Cocozza Policy Research Associates, Inc.
Martha Coutinho Department of Human Development and Learning East Tennessee State University
Richard D. Dávila Springfield College	Areas of expertise include: multi-cultural competence in working with diverse populations working with youth and their families in collaboration with external systems impacting the quality of their lives.
Harold E. Dent Center for Minority in Special Education	Areas of expertise include: disproportionate representation of minorities in special education cognitive assessment models cognitive instructional interventions
Stephen N. Elliot Department of Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin	Areas of expertise include: social skills assessment and intervention with children ages 4-18 years behavioral and social-cognitive orientation individual and classwide programs program evaluation
Michael H. Epstein Northern Illinois University Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education	Areas of expertise include: developed a nationally representative, norm-referenced scale to assess emotional and behavioral strengths completed evaluations of system of care and wraparound programs at the agency, local and state levels
John R. Firman International Association of Chiefs of Police
Steve Forness UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital	Areas of expertise include: special education of children with emotional or behavioral disorders
Wayne L. Fox The University Affiliated Program of Vermont	Areas of expertise include: collaborative program development for children and youth with severe disabilities, including serious emotional disturbance, within general education settings models for systems of change at State, community, school and classroom levels personnel preparation and professional development
Barbara Friesen Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health Portland State University	Areas of expertise include: improving services to families whose children have mental, emotional or behavioral disorders
Charles R. Greenwood Juniper Gardens Children's Project, University of Kansas	Areas of expertise include: observational assessment peer tutoring/instruction mild disabilities
Beth Harry University of Miami School of Education	Areas of expertise include: cultural and family issues related to disability qualitative research
Kathy Hebbeler SRI International	Areas of expertise include: longitudinal research large scale studies policy research early childhood
Jo Hendrickson Editor, Behavior Disorders University of Iowa	Areas of expertise include: social skills friendship development children/youth with behavior and emotional disorders high risk populations
Ken Howell Western Washington University Department of Special Education	Areas of expertise include: evaluation behavior problems (functional evaluation and intervention) correctional education
Howard M. Knoff Project ACHIEVE University of South Florida	Areas of expertise include: organizational change and school reform consultation and intervention processes personality assessment professional issues
Krista Kutash Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health Florida Mental Health Institute,USF
Philip J. Leaf Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health	Areas of expertise include: development and evaluation of prevention mental health services for children
Constance Lehman Teaching Research Division Western Oregon State University	Areas of expertise include: technical assistance to community entities, schools, juvenile justice, mental health, social services, to develop, implement, and evaluate integrated community systems of support for children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems and their families. consultation to design and implement effective family service coordination for children, youth and families. design and conduct interprofessional training at the inservice level within communities moving toward more integrated and coordinated systems of support for children, youth and families. consultation with colleges and universities to develop interprofessional training curricula. applied research that engages youth, families and community members in the process
Suzanne M. Martin West Virginia University	Areas of expertise include: teaching BD adolescents head SED program at WVU
Margaret J. McLaughlin Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children University of Maryland
Marjorie Montague University of Miami	Areas of expertise include: strategies to facilitate instruction for students at risk for developing serious emotional disturbance (SED) instructional strategies for students with ADHD and behavioral/learning problems social skills instruction for classroom management
Daniel P. Morgan Utah State University Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation	Areas of expertise include: teaching behaviorally disordered students self-management applications generalization strategies teacher preparation substance use prevention sexual harassment prevention
Francie Murry University of Northern Colorado	Areas of expertise include: Native American students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) legal issues for students with EBD behavior techniques enhancing social competence as it relates to emotional intelligence
C. Michael Nelson	Areas of expertise include: applied behavior analysis/classroom behavior management special education in correctional programs integrated services for children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges behavioral consultation
J. Ron Nelson Arizona State University	Areas of expertise include: school-based interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders
Margo Okazawa-Rey School of Social Work San Francisco State University	Areas of expertise include: multiculturalism and multicultural education qualitative research methods, including participating in active research staff development
Chris Petr School of Social Welfare University of Kansas	Areas of expertise include: development of family-centered behavior scale (FCBS) for use in training and evaluation of professional behaviors and programs
Marleen Pugach Department of Curriculum and Instruction University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	Areas of expertise include: teacher education collaboration professional development of teachers development schools and urban special education
Abram Rosenblatt Child Services Research Group Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco	Areas of expertise include: evaluation of the costs and outcomes of systems of care for youth with severe emotional problems assessment of outcomes and costs designed to impact on system implementation and policy formation
Tom Scruggs Purdue University Department of Educational Studies	Areas of expertise include: learning and memory of students with learning disabilities and mild mental retardation inclusion science education and learning disorders intervention research with students with learning and behavioral disabilities
Richard L. Simpson University of Kansas Department of Special Education	Areas of expertise include: children and youth with aggressive and violent tendencies management of students with emotional & behavioral problems parents/families of students with behavioral disorders
Nirbhay N. Singh Medical College of Virginia	Areas of expertise include: cultural diversity families drug therapy
Russ Skiba Institute for Child Study Indiana University	Areas of expertise include: school discipline finance of wraparound systems of care
Stephen W. Smith University of Florida, Department of Special Education	Areas of expertise include: research in cognitive-behavioral training to reduce violence and aggression research in school-wide efforts to reduce inappropriate responses to conflict through conflict resolution and peer mediation.
Phillip Strain University of Colorado at Denver	Areas of expertise include: social skill development in young children prevention of aggressive behavior longitudinal studies of early intervention
George Sugai Behavioral Research and Teaching University of Oregon	Areas of expertise include: emotional and behavioral disorders applied behavioral analysis positive behavior support school-wide management social skills instruction functional assessment behavior and classroom management
William W. Swan Educational Leadership Department The University of Georgia	Areas of expertise include: statewide planning for children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems (e.g., Georgia Psycheducational Network) research (design, statistics) program evaluation leadership
Dwight Sweeney Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling California State University, San Bernadino	Areas of expertise include: definition and assessment of emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) functional assessment and positive behavioral interventions inclusion of students with EBD in general education classes
Richard J. Whelan Department of Special Education Kansas University Medical Center	Areas of expertise include: programs for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) program design, management and evaluation conflict resolution - due process hearings and mediation applied behavior analysis alternative assessments
Bruce Wolford Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children Eastern Kentucky University	Areas of expertise include: administration professional development funding of educational services for at-risk and delinquent youth meeting facilitation compression planning job analysis curriculum development evaluation and delivery
Paula Wood College of Education Wayne State University	Areas of expertise include: the self-concept explanatory style and cognitions of African-American adolescents related to negative feedback, the use of self-protective techniques to preserve self-esteem cognitive behavioral techniques for teachers to help students deal more appropriately with negative feedback
Mitchell Yell University of South Carolina	Areas of expertise include: special education law IDEA reauthorization discipline CRE

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