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DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Current ADP Students

Student Contact Info

Listed below are ADP students’ names, email addresses and primary areas of interest. Please feel free to contact any of the students.

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  • Sevgi Bayram Ozdemir - sevgi1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - The role of family and contextual influences on the social and emotional development of preschool-age children across different cultural groups.
  • Jessica Becraft - sjess1@umbc.edu - (mentor: John Borrero)Assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior and communication deficits displayed by individuals with intellectual disabilities; applications of behavior analysis to classroom interventions; translational research
  • Rose Belanger - rbelangerkenny@verizon.net - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein)
  • Amy Benson - amybenson97@yahoo.com - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein) - Children's math development.
  • Katherine Bohner - kbohner1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Steve Pitts) - Psychophysiology of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), in particular examining differences in the cardiovascular functioning of children with and without this disorder. Psychometric evaluation of the current DSM classification of ADHD (i.e., bifactor model)
  • Anna Burns - annaburns@hotmail.com - (mentor: Laura Stapleton)
  • Abbey Carreau-Webster - carreau@kennedykrieger.org - (mentor: John Borrero) - Evaluation of methods to improve the assessment and treatment of severe behavior disorders as well as factors that influence risky-choice in human decision making
  • Maria Finger-Elam - mariaf1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Linda Baker)
  • Kate Flynn - kflynn3@umbc.edu - (mentor: David Schultz) Early intervention for children with behavior problems, especially those at risk for later social and psychological difficulties
  • Michelle Frank-Crawford - crawfordm@kennedykrieger.org - (mentor: John Borrero) - Assessment and treatment of behavior problems for individuals with intellectual disabilities, particularly identification/prevention of conditions under which treatment degradation occurs
  • Nicole Hausman - hausman@kennedykrieger.org - (mentor: John Borrero) - Applied behavior analysis, assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, and childhood obesity
  • Catherine Lee - cklee4@gmail.com - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein) - Children's math development.
  • Christy Leung - leung1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - The role of culture in parenting, parent-child relationships, and socio-emotional development of children and adolescents and how migration experience plays a role in the adaption and acculturation processes of immigrant family
  • Heather Lewis - hlewis2@umbc.edu - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein) - Educational development in early childhood, parental influences on children's educational development
  • Amber Mendres - aemendres@umbc.edu - (mentor: John Borrero) - Intellectual disabilities, behavior analysis, assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, translational research
  • Shari Metzger - smetz2@umbc.edu - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein) - Schooling and educational development, children's conceptions of mathematics and how those conceptions relate to motivation, home experiences, and achievement; curriculum development and evaluation.
  • Brian Morrison - bmorri3@umbc.edu - (mentor: David Schultz)
  • Manica Ramos - manica1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein)
  • Laura Rose - laurose1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - Parenting, attachment, peer relationships and developmental delays from infancy through early childhood.
  • Laura Scaletti - lascalet@umbc.edu - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein)
  • Kelly Sheperd - sheperd1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - Parenting practices in various at-risk contexts, such as adolescent parents, drug using women, or parents of medically fragile intants; how these contexts influence the development of both the parent and child.
  • Mary Shuttlesworth - mshutt1@umbc.edu - (mentor: David Schultz) - Social and emotional development in children, especially preschool children; prevention of behavior problems, espeically with low-income and/or minority children.
  • Madiha Tahseen - madiha3@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - Factors that promote positive socio-emotional development and well-being among immigrant parents and their adolescents.
  • Barbara Tomlian - barb8@umbc.edu - (mentor: John Borrero) - Improving behaviorally based interventions for individuals with severe problem behavior; interventions for communication deficits of children with autism spectrum disorders.
  • Joy Thompson - jthomps1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein) - Early childhood education; short- and long-term educational outcomes of children from low-income and minority backgrounds; evaluation of educational interventions targeting children from low-income backgrounds; application of research to policy.
  • Kelly Todd Schmidt - todd@gl.umbc.edu - (mentor: Susan Sonnenschein) - Infancy/early childhood, parenting, early intervention for children with special needs.
  • Lisa Toole - toole@kennedykrieger.org - (mentor: John Borrero) - Assessment and treatment of severe behavior disorders, early childhood education and early intervention, and peer tutoring.
  • Andrew Yu - weiyu1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - Acculturation, parent, immigrant children's social and emotional development, early intervention and policy.
  • Jing Yu - jy6@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - How culture, parenting beliefs and practices, and child's temperament interact to influence child's socio-emotional development; the adjustment and acculturation of immigrant parents and children.
  • Nan Zhou - zn1@umbc.edu - (mentor: Charissa Cheah) - The role of culture in socio-emotional development of children, parent-child relationships, and parenting.