James M. Johnston, Ph.D., BCBA
Auburn University
Applied Behavior Analysis and
Positive Behavioral Support

Thursday February 19, 9:00 – 9:50 am Salon E/F


James M. Johnston, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Auburn University who received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1970. Dr. Johnston has conducted laboratory and field research on a variety of topics with both human and non-human species. His present activities focus on longstanding interests in the area of developmental disabilities. He serves as director of the Department's master's specialization in applied behavior analysis in developmental disabilities, and has for some years been involved with the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in facilitating the delivery of sound habilitative services, following similar involvement in Florida's mental retardation system while on the faculty of the University of Florida.

He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, among others, and has also served as president of the Association for Behavior Analysis, as well as regional and state affiliated chapters Dr. Johnston is currently president of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. In addition to authoring journal and technical publications in areas ranging from rumination to canine olfaction, he has co-authored a text in research methods for studying behavior, now in a two-volume second edition. Dr. Johnston has additional interests in teaching applied behavior analysis and in conceptual issues in the study of behavior.


Aubrey Daniels, Ph.D.
Aubrey Daniels International Ensuring Effective Treatment: Lessons Learned from Business Applications of Behavior Analysis

Thursday February 19, 4:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Salon E/F


Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D., founder of Aubrey Daniels International, is a pioneer in applying the principles of behavioral psychology to the workplace. Internationally recognized as an author, speaker, and expert in behavior-based technologies, Dr. Daniels and his staff advise companies on management and human performance issues such as leadership, coaching and mentoring, selection and retention, quality, productivity, compensation and rewards, morale and culture, performance systems, employee skill mastery, and change management.

Dr. Daniels’ most recent book Other People’s Habits: How to Use Positive Reinforcement to Bring out the Best in People Around You has just been chosen as a Doubleday Book Club selection. He has been featured in numerous local and national publications and has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Continental Airlines Magazine, Sky Magazine, Biznet, CNN, CNBC and CBS radio and currently writes a monthly column for Entrepreneur.com. Dr. Daniels is on the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, an Associate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a member of the Advisory Board of Furman University, a faculty member of the College of Health Professions at the University of Florida, and a visiting professor at Florida State University, University of North Texas, and Western Michigan University. He has also taught at Georgia State University, Emory University and Atlanta University and makes frequent presentations at Oxford University in England.

Murray Sidman, Ph.D.
The Analysis of Behavior: What’s in it for Us

Friday February 20, 8:30-9:20 a.m.


Dr. Sidman received a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University in 1952 and went on to make contributions of enormous significance to the field of behavior analysis. He has held positions as a Research Psychologist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the E.K. Shriver Center for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, where he served as director of the Behavioral Sciences Department. Dr. Sidman has taught countless students at Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, University of Nevada, Northeastern University, and Johns Hopkins University. His influence is international, as Dr. Sidman has held academic appointments at the University of São Paulo in Brasil, Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dr. Sidman’s publications in peer-refereed journals number close to 100 and have defined much of our current understanding of stimulus control, stimulus equivalence, and avoidance behavior. His 1960 text, Tactics of Scientific Research, is considered the first primer on within- subject research methodology. It is a classic that is still used today. Other contributions have extended to important social problems. The second edition of his book Coercion and Its Fallout was published in 2000, and his treatment of “Terrorism as Behavior” is in press in Behavior and Social Issues. Dr. Sidman is currently at work on his newest text, Applied Behavior Analysis: How and Why.

George Sugai, Ph.D.
University of Oregon
School Wide Positive Behavior Support:
Lessons Learned

 Friday, February 20, 4:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.


George Sugai received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1980 and is currently a Professor in special education in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. He brings a very practical understanding of issues in the public schools to his academic and research positions. Dr. Sugai has been a teacher in the public schools, a treatment director in a residential program, as well as a program administrator.

Dr. Sugai conducts applied school and classroom research, and works with schools to translate research into practice. He is currently co-director of the Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and the Research and Demonstration Center on School-wide Behavior Support at the University of Oregon. Dr. Sugai has co-authored two texts: Effective school consultation: An interactive approach (with G. Tindal) and Effective teaching: Principles and procedures of applied behavior analysis with exceptional students (with M. Wolery and D. Bailey). He has authored or co-authored chapters in 7 texts and more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Sugai has received more than $14 million in federal grants since 1984 to fund research on school-based interventions.


Brian Iwata, Ph.D., BCBA
 University of Florida
Descriptive Analysis Approaches to
Behavioral Assessment

 Saturday, February 21, 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.


Brian Iwata received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Florida State University and is currently Research Foundation Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Florida, Director of the Florida Center on Self-Injury, and Co-Director of the University of Florida Autism Program. He has held faculty appointments previously at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Western Michigan University.

His primary areas of interest are applied behavior analysis, developmental disabilities, functional analysis of severe behavior disorders, and program evaluation. He has published over 175 articles and chapters on these topics, and he has received over $4 million in research grants to support that work.

Dr. Iwata’s work has focused on almost every behavioral aspect of developmental disabilities, including behavioral acquisition (ranging from basic skills training to community preparation), eating disorders, self-injurious and aggressive behavior, and staff management. Much of Dr. Iwata’s research has focused on the functional analysis of severe behavior disorders, an approach to assessment and treatment that is one of the most significant advancements in behavior analysis.

Dr. Iwata is the former chief editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Chair of the Human Development Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, President of the Association for Behavior Analysis, President of the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, President of Division 33 of the American Psychological Association, President of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, and President of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association on Mental Retardation.

Dr. Iwata has received a number of significant awards for his work, including the Don Hake Award for Contributions to Basic and Applied Research from the American Psychological Association, the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Service from the Association for Behavior Analysis, and the Richard Dillon Award for Excellence in Research from the American Association on Mental Retardation.


 
 
Keynote Addressees