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Faculty
One of the primary reasons Penn State is recognized around the globe as a distinguished university is the sterling caliber of its faculty. As a World Campus student, you will have the opportunity to learn from the same instructors who teach traditional, face-to-face classes on Penn State's twenty-four campuses across Pennsylvania.
Pamela Wolfe, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Education, Academic Program Director of the Professional Development Certificate Program in Autism, Penn State
Dr. Wolfe is an associate professor of special education at Penn State. Her research interests center on persons with autism, severe disabilities, and cognitive disabilities. Dr. Wolfe recently co-edited a book, The Autism Encyclopedia, and co-directs a federally funded grant to provide education on autism to preservice professionals in special education and work with speech-language disorders. She is the academic coordinator for the professional development certificate in autism, a distance education program offered jointly by Penn State and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She is a member of a number of editorial boards having to do with persons with disabilities.
Dr. Vince Carbone, Ed.D., BCBADirector, Carbone Clinic
Dr. Carbone is a board-certified behavior analyst with more than twenty-five years of experience in designing learning environments for persons with autism and developmental disabilities. He received his graduate training in applied behavior analysis (ABA) at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. He has served on the Florida Peer Review Committee, which monitors and guides the provision of behavior analysis services for persons with autism and related developmental disabilities in Florida. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Penn State and the Florida Institute of Technology and is currently visiting professor in the behavioral education doctoral program at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. His teaching responsibilities include courses in applied behavior analysis and verbal behavior.
His behavioral analytic research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including School Application of Learning Theory, Education and Treatment of Children, Journal of Special Education Technology, and Corrective and Social Psychiatry. Dr. Carbone currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention. He is a frequently invited speaker at professional workshops and conferences. He has provided preparatory training and clinical consultation for hundreds of certified behavior analysts in several states. He is the developer and presenter of a series of workshops on teaching verbal behavior to children with autism, based on B. F. Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior. He and his clinic staff are currently working with several school districts, agencies, and families across the United States, and providing services to persons in Canada and the United Kingdom. He is the director of a center-based clinic for children with autism in Rockland County, New York. The clinic provides consultation, training, and therapeutic services to children, their families, and instructional teams.
Joanne Gerenser, Ph.D., CCC-SLPExecutive Director, The Eden II Programs
Dr. Gerenser is the executive director of the Eden II Programs in Staten Island, New York. She is an adjunct associate professor at Brooklyn College as well as at Penn State. She received her doctorate in speech and hearing science from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for the Organization for Autism Research. She is on the boards of the Partnership for Autism Education, the Interagency Council for Mental Retardation, and the New York State Association for Behavior Analysis. Dr. Gerenser is co-author of the interactive CD-ROM entitled Behavioral Programming for Children with Autism, and she has authored several book chapters on autism and developmental disabilities. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis. She sits on a number of professional advisory boards for programs serving children and adults with autism.
Ben Handen, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Thomas Kitchen, M.S., BCBADirector, Lake Erie Autism Diagnostic, Educational, and Research Services (LEADERS) Program
Achievement Center/Mercyhurst College
During his career in the autism field, Kitchen has served as a direct care therapist, public school special education teacher, behavior analyst, staff trainer, educational/behavioral consultant, program coordinator, graduate program teaching faculty, and agency administrator. As a consultant and provider of graduate education, he has worked with families, grad students, and professionals from around the country. Through LEADERS, he provides direction, consultation and supervision to behavior analysts and educators working with children with autism in an organization serving thousands of children. He also teaches 3 courses within the 5-course behavior analysis certification graduate program at Mercyhurst College, in addition to organizing/supervising Mercyhurst's Intensive Practicum for behavior analysis.
Prior to his current work as the director of the LEADERS program, Kitchen served as the designer, developer, and coordinator of a widely-recognized intensive school program for children with autism. Along with LEADERS co-director Robert Gulick, he developed a parent and practitioner training model as a result of a grant he and Mr. Gulick received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the results of this project was the duo's co-authorship of the book and accompanying CD-ROM, “Effective Instruction for Children with Autism, An Applied Behavior Analytic Approach.”
Kitchen has frequently been interviewed in print, television, and radio media about his work in autism, and he has served as an “expert” witness in due process proceedings regarding children with autism. His areas of interest within the field lie primarily with effective instructional techniques, curriculum development for language and social skills, reduction of problem behaviors, systems development, staff performance management, and parent/staff training.
Vincent LaMarca, M.A., BCBALovaas Institute for Early Intervention
Mr. LaMarca is a behavior consultant with the Lovaas Institute. He has been working with children with autism, using the Lovaas Model of Applied Behavior Analysis for the past eleven years. Throughout the country, he has presented at conferences and informational sessions, both in school districts and to parent groups, on a variety of applied behavior analysis topics. He currently supervises intensive behavioral treatment for children in Indiana. He also serves on the quality control committee that oversees certification of personnel at the Lovaas Institute.
Ray Romanczyk, Ph.D., BCBADirector, Institute for Child Development; Professor of Clinical Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton
Dr. Romanczyk is a professor of clinical psychology at SUNY Binghamton. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a board-certified behavior analyst specializing in the problems of children. In addition, he is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, New York. He is the founder and director of the Institute for Child Development, which provides clinical and educational services to children and families. He has been involved in advocacy, program development, the judicial and legislative process as expert witness, and direct services to children and families. His work has been published in many professional journals and books, and he has written extensively in the fields of early childhood behavior and developmental, emotional, and learning disabilities. Dr. Romanczyk has presented several hundred addresses at regional, national, and international professional conferences regarding his applied and research work at the institute.
Kim Schreck, Ph.D., BCBAAssociate Professor of Psychology, Penn State Harrisburg
Dr. Schreck received her doctorate from Ohio State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at the Columbus Children's Hospital. She is a board-certified behavior analyst and is currently an associate professor of psychology and the acting coordinator of the applied behavior analysis (ABA) master's degree program at Penn State Harrisburg. She specializes in early intervention and treatment of children with autism and developmental disabilities and continues to provide private consultative services in matters of behavioral assessment; ABA program development and maintenance; education of children with autism; and assessment and treatment of sleep problems. Her clinical work is reflected in her research. Dr. Schreck publishes research investigating sleep problems, feeding problems, and ABA interventions with typically developing children and those with autism and developmental disabilities. She is also the current associate editor of the journal Behavioral Interventions.
Brenda Smith Myles, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Special Education, University of Kansas
Kay Toomey, Ph.D.Pediatric Psychologist
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