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Recent Presentations - 2007-2008
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• Ferguson, C., Lopez, M., McWayne, C., & Ramos, M. F. (2007, October). State of the art research on ELL parent and family involvement. Session at the Sixth Annual Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit. Washington, D. C.  
• Cheah, C. S. L., Leung, C. Y. Y., Tahseen, M., Bayram-Özdemir, S., & Yu, W. (2007, October). Predicting parenting and children’s peer relationship problems in ımmigrant Chinese families. Paper presented at the On New Shores: Understanding Immigrant Children in North America Conference, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
• Frank, M.A., DeLeon, I. G., Gregory, M. G., Triggs, M. M., Carreau, A., & Allman, M. J.  (2007, November).  Demand elasticity of reinforcers that are identical and functionally dissimilar to escape during treatment of escape-maintained problem behavior.  Poster presented at the Maryland Association for Behavior Analysis, Baltimore, MD.
• Sonnenschein, S., Stapleton, L., & Benson, A. (2008, March). The relation between type and amount of instruction on children’s literacy development. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York City.
• Beall, L.C., Baker, L., & Stapleton, L.  (2008, March). Issues in using national and international data sets for educational research:  An applied example. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY.
• Montgomery, J.A., Garrett, A.J., Sullivan, C.J., & Baker, L. (2008, March).  Testing the paradigm: Is RTI an effective identification and intervention tool during pre-kindergarten and kindergarten?  Poster presented at the American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY.
• Sheperd, K., Lyons, J., Cheah, C. S. L., (2008, March). The future orientation of adolescent mothers: The role of well being and her relationship with her mother. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
• Bayram-Özdemir, S., Leung, C. Y. Y., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, March). Mediating role of mother-child relationship quality on the associations between ındebtedness, filial emotions, and filial behavior. Poster presented at the Society for Research of Adolescent, Chicago, IL.
• Leung, C. Y. Y., Bayram-Özdemir, S., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, March). Chinese adolescents' decision making and social cognitive reasoning regarding filial dilemmas. Poster presented at the Society for Research of Adolescent, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
• Sheperd, K. A., LaFleur, K. M., Raoofian, N., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, March). Effects of sources of parenting information and maternal depression in adolescent mothers' readiness to parent. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
• Sheperd, K. A., Lyons, J., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, March). The future orientation of adolescent mothers: The role of well being and her relationship with her mother. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
• Sheperd, K. A., Queeglay, K., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, March). Parenting identity among adolescent mothers: Effects of individual characteristics and the relationship with the partner. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
• Demir, M., Bayram-Özdemir, S., Özdemir, M. (2008, March). Emotion regulation, best friendship quality and happiness among Turkish late adolescents.  Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
• Pace, Z., Kahng, S., Hausman, N. L., Webb, J., Shumate, E., & Fisher, A.  (2008). The use of a family-based intervention in the treatment of childhood obesity.  Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Addiction, Infectious Disease, and Public Health conference at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
• Hausman, N. L., Kahng, S., Ingvarsson, E. T., Hardesty, S. L. & Parsons, T. S. (2008, May).  Increasing independent responding in children with autism spectrum disorder through delayed prompting.  Symposium presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.
• Sweeney, N. M., Kahng, S., Hausman, N. L., Fisher, A., & Troiano, T. (2008, May).  Treatment of childhood obesity: an opportunity for behavior analysts. Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis. Chicago, IL.
• Jann, K., Kahng, S. Hausman, N. L., Chung, K., Triggs, M.  (2008, May). Treatment of severe problem behavior exhibited by children diagnosed with CHARGE syndrome.  Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.
• Frank, M.A., DeLeon, I. G., Chase, J. A., DeLeon, I. G., & Allman, M. J.  (2008, May). Evaluating continuity as a valuable dimension of reinforcement for children with developmental disabilities.  Symposium presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.
• Kahng, S., Toole, L. M., Hausman, N. L., & Carreau, A. (2008,May).  Behavioral assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior.  AWARES Inc., Anaconda, MT.
• Allman, M. J., DeLeon, I. G., Frank, M. A., Gregory, M. G., Triggs, M. M., & Carreau, A.  (2008, May). Demand curves for common reinforcers vary with the functional similarity of concurrently available alternatives.  Symposium presented at the the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, Illinois.
• Carreau, A., DeLeon, I. G., Frank, M. A., Triggs, M. M., Allman, M. J., & Leon, Y.  (2008, May). A further examination of behavioral momentum effects arranged by noncontingent reinforcement.  Symposium presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.
• Triggs, M. M., DeLeon, I. G., Frank, M. A., Gregory, M. G., Allman, M. J., & Carreau, A.  (2008, May).  Assessing demand elasticity for positive reinforcers against concurrently available avoidance of task demands.  Symposium presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.
• Toole, L. M., Boelter, E. W., Jennett, H. K., Triggs, M. M., Lieving, G. A. & Hagopian, L. P.  (2008, May).   On the relation between severity of autism and resistance-to-extinction.  Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Chicago, IL.
• Buckingham-Howes, S., Fitzmaurice, S., Oberlander, S. E., & Black, M. M. (2008, May). Adolescent mother-grandmother conflict is associated with children's behavior problems. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
• Buckingham-Howes, S., & Black, M. M. (2008, May).  Home intervention increases cognitive development among prenatally drug exposed, urban, low-income infants. Poster presented at the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute Baltimore Research Day, Baltimore, MD.
• Schultz, D., Ambike, A., & Logie, S. (2008, June). The Schultz Test of Emotion Processing (STEP-P): A video-based assessment of preschool children's social information processing. Paper presented at Ninth Annual Head Start Research Conference, Washinton, D.C.
• Schultz, D., Ambike, A., Logie, S., & Shif, D. (2008, July).  Social information processing in early childhood: The development of the Schultz Test of Emotion Processing (STEP-P). Paper presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Wurtzburg, Germany.
• Sheperd, K. A., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, July). Parenting stress and child problem behaviors among Aboriginal Canadian young mothers: The moderating role of acculturation. Poster presented at the International Society for Behavioral Development, Wurtzburg, Germany.
• Leung, C. Y. Y., Cheah, C. S. L., & Bands, H. (2008, July). Autonomy-granting and overprotective parenting and children’s socioemotional development: A comparison of Chinese in the U.S. and Hong Kong. Poster  presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Wurtzburg, Germany.
• Yu,W., Costea,M., & Cheah, C.S. L. 2008, July). Modesty socialization and children’s socioemotional problems among U.S.Chinese immigrants: the moderating role of parental acculturation. Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Wurtzburg, Germany.
• Bayram-Özdemir, S., Nye, A., & Hong, J., Cheah, C. S. L.(2008, July).  The mediating role of parenting style in the association between marital adjustment and children’s social development.  Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Würzburg, Germany.
• Cheah, C. S. L., Bayram-Özdemir, S., Kim, J. (2008, July).  The role of acculturation in Korean immigrant mothers’ parenting practices.  Poster  presented at the  International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Würzburg, Germany.
• Tahseen, M., & Cheah, C. S. L. (2008, July). Mental health, acculturation, and child outcomes of Korean-American immigrant families. Poster presented  at the International Society for Behavioral Development, Wurzburg, Germany.