Episode 218 - ABA and Literacy Skills w/ Dr. Denise Ross-Page + Dr. R. Douglas Greer

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Dr. Denise Ross-Page, PhD., BCBA-D, is Chair of the University of Wisconsin-System’s Institute for Urban Education, a program housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she is also Associate Professor of Education. Ross-Page is a certified special education teacher and a former elementary school principal. Her research applies behavior analysis to the development of language and literacy interventions for children with and without disabilities. She has established or led approximately 20 professional development partnerships in school districts in Wisconsin, New York, Chicago, South Florida, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ross-Page is a graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University and Spelman College. Doug Greer is Professor of Psychology and Education at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Teachers College of Columbia University in the MA and Ph.D. programs in behavior analysis and the education of students with without disabilities. He has served on the editorial boards of 10 journals, published over 200 research and theoretical articles in more than 21 journals and is the author or coauthor of 14 books. Two of his most recent books are translated into Korean, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian. Greer has sponsored 260 doctoral dissertations, taught over 2,000 teachers and psychologists, originated the CABASÒ model of schooling used in the USA, Ireland, Italy, England and founded the Fred S. Keller School (www.cabasschools.org). He has been involved in basic and applied experimental research in schools with students, teachers, parents, and supervisors as well as pediatric patients in medical settings. He and his students and colleagues have identified: (a) verbal and social developmental cusps and protocols to establish them when they are missing in children, (b) conditioned reinforcement by observation and denial conditions, (c) an organizational systems science of schooling, and (d) the stimu.us control for incidental bidirectional naming. Doug is the recipient of the Fred S. Keller Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education from the American Psychology Association, a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), the ABAI award for International Contributions to Behavior Analysis, May 5 as the R. Douglas Greer Day in Westchester County and the Jack Michael Award for Contributions to Verbal Behavior. He has served as guest professor at universities in China, Spain, Wales, England, Japan, Korea, India, Ireland, Germany, Italy, USA, and Nigeria