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Western Kentucky University - Psychology

Board Certified Behavior Analyst; Licensed Behavior Analyst; PhD Child Educational Development
Carrie
Pritchard, BCBA, LBA
Bowling Green, Kentucky
I provide behavior supports and ABA skills trainings for individuals served by Community Living in Kentucky (CLiK) and as a private clinician. I am honored to assist clients in developing everyday adaptive behaviors, and improve social communication and academic or vocational outcomes.

Behavior supports begins with a functional assessment of challenging behaviors, a behavior support plan and may include services such as transition planning, IEP development, emotion and social skills development using Acceptance and Commitment Training. I have been privileged to develop supports that enhance the engagement of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities in home, school, and community for the past 21 years, as a researcher and as the therapist-parent of a child on the spectrum.

My Ph.D. In Child Development-Educational Psychology at UW-Madison has proven essential to my practice. While there, I assisted in NIH funded research to discover principles of teaching and learning, learned milestones for development of skills across the whole child (from motor skills to cognitive skills) and across the lifespan (from infancy to early adulthood). My technical expertise stems from my post-graduate training in Applied Behavior Analysis-as applied to Autism Spectrum Disorders from University of Massachusetts-Lowell, and I learned an exceptional amount from my son with autism, who is now working full time and who is one of the happiest, funniest, kindest people I have had the good fortune to know. I strive to be the parent he deserves every single day.

I enjoy assisting schools in modifying instruction to promote engagement in learning, developing partnerships with home, and reducing target behaviors.

Experience

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Lecturer

    Courses taught: Average Enrollment

    Education Department:
    Introduction to Learning 35
    Child Psychology 35
    Psychology Department:
    Child Psychology 225

  • Western Kentucky University

    Assistant Professor, Psychology

    As an Assistant Professor, I designed and delivered instruction for 7 courses per academic year, provided service on University, College, and Departmental committees, conducted several lines of research, and submitted and presented work to peer reviewed journals and international committees. For several years, I trained honor's and graduate students who assisted in investigating social skills development in children with autism. I was honored to serve as faculty advisor to the WKU chapter of Psi Chi, the honor's society for students of psychology. I was awarded a number of internal grants and in 2006, I was the only social scientist to receive the Kentucky Science and Engineering (KSEF) Innovation in Research grant.

    Courses Taught: Average Enrollment

    Educational Psychology 30
    Advanced Educational Psychology 30
    Adolescent Development 30
    Child Development 45
    Honors: Intuition Vs. Reasoned Deliberation 8

    Recent Research Projects:

    2008 – 2011
    Working at thought: Children’s understanding of objective and subjective influences on epistemic states.

    2008 – 2011
    The development of reasoning in contexts.

    2007 - 2011
    Video games for social skill development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Supported by a grant from the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation and by Western Kentucky University.

    2006-2011
    Relate, Respond, Reflect: A cognitive-behavioral curriculum for developing social competence. Applied for & received KSEF Innovation Grant based on this research, Fall 2008. Western Kentucky University.

    2006-2011
    Social construction of social skills: Distinguishing optimal support from maximal support.

  • Western Kentucky University

    Part-time Faculty, Psychology

    Designed and delivered effective curriculum and instructional activities for online adolescent, graduate adolescent, educational and graduate educational psychology courses.

Education

  • Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne

    Bachelor's degree

    Psychology

  • University of Massachusetts at Lowell

    Graduate Certification

    Behavioral Intervention in Autism
    BACB approved coursework as required for the certification exam leading to a BCBA-D. Completed August 2013. Certification and licensure expected February 2014.

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Ph.D.

    Educational Psychology: Child Development
    Dissertation: Development of reasoning in contexts: Is scientific reasoning special!

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Lecturer


    Courses taught: Average Enrollment Education Department: Introduction to Learning 35 Child Psychology 35 Psychology Department: Child Psychology 225



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