Distinguished Service to Behavior Analysis Awardee
2004: Dr. Beth Sulzer-Azaroff
The challenges of attempting to teach successfully in an inner-city school led Sulzer-Azaroff to the study of behavior analysis. As a doctoral student in school psychology at the University of Minnesota, she began her investigations of programmed instruction, autism education, and errorless learning. Next, while a faculty member at Southern Illinois University, she, her students and colleagues investigated and wrote of behavior analytic methods for motivating, instructing and managing student and teacher performance. At the University of Massachusetts, she helped coordinate a doctoral-level psychology program in developmental disabilities, meanwhile continuing her collaborative scholarship and research in behavior analytic applications within schools, families, and service and business organizations. Currently she is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts and holds adjunct appointments at Florida International and Florida Gulf Coast Universities. At present, she is collaborating in the development and field evaluations of a federally sponsored distance-learning curriculum designed to teach the parents and teachers of children with autism how to intervene with behavioral methods.
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