Recent School Psychology Doctoral Dissertations

2012

• Heather Arduengo. Validation of the Neuropsychological Processing Concerns Checklist

2011

• Erin Avirett. Validity of Executive Functioning Tasks Across the WJ III COG, NEPSY, and D-KEFS in a Clinical Population of Children: Applicability to Three Neurocognitive Theories
• Kristen Belloni. A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Comparison of Australian and United States Standardization Data of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children.
• Amber LaRue (Mangrum). Increasing Social Competence in the Special Education Population: An Evaluation of a Summer Program
• Jordana Mortimer. Examining the Concurrent Validity of the Visual and Auditory Attention Tasks of the DKEFS, NEPSY and WJ III COG Using Structural Equation Modeling
• Raychel Muenke. A Nationwide Survey of Disability Support Personnel Regarding Transition and Services for Postsecondary Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Joy Nicewander (Whitehead). Comparing Attentional Skills Using TEA-CH Score in a Representative Sample of U.S. Children.2010

2010

• Kelly Gin. Current Roles and Practices of Assessment Specialists in the New Era of RTI: A Survey of Educational Diagnosticians and Licensed Specialists in School Psychology in Texas
• Laura Jacob Sanders. A Comparison of Behavior Assessment System for Children – Second Edition Parent Rating Scale Scores for Children and Adolescents with ADHD, Traumatic Brain Injury and High Functioning Autism
• Holleigh Sims. Programmatic Changes in School Psychology Training Programs from 1997-2007
• Elizabeth Smith. Comparing Behavior and Neuropsychological Functioning Using NEPSY and BASC 2 Scores in a Mixed Clinical Sample: An Exploratory Study
• Tricia Williams. A Concurrent Validity Study of Two Book and Print Awareness Tests in Four and Five Year Old Students

2009

• Crystal Beadle. Attentional Impairment and Processing Speed in Children Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Sharon Cannon. Demographic Changes in School Psychology Training Programs Between 1997 and 2005
• Laura Darby. Effects of Shared Personality Types of Parents and Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders on Parental Stress
• Jonelle Ensign. Psychosocial Subtypes on the Behavior Assessment System for Children Second Edition Following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
• Mary Ann Gansle. Memory Abilities in Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Arthur Swisher. Practitioner Views of Asperger’s Disorder: Clinical Diagnoses and Special Education Eligibility

2008

• Wendi Baumann. Executive functioning in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injuries: Utilization of the Comprehensive Trail Making Test
• Paulette Pitt. Maternal and paternal differences in parental stress levels and marital satisfaction leves in parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2007

• Megan Flom. Patterns of Internalized and Externalized Behaviors on the BASC-2 PRS in High Functioning Children with Autism
• Nisha Kalluvilayi. A Comparison of Parent vs. Self-Perceptions of Social Skills Abilities in Children and Adolescents with High Functioning Autism and Asperger’s’ Syndrome
• Daralyn Plains. Parents’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Preschoolers Pre-Academic Skills and Readiness for Kindergarten

2006

• Kristin Nethers. Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities-Third Edition and Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Scale IQ Scores: Does Autism Diagnosis Make A Difference?
• Brooke Novales. Visual Motor Abilities in Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome
• Robert Lackey. The Relationship of Teacher Efficacy, General Behavioral Knowledge and Causal Beliefs to the Acceptability of Behavior Interventions
• Mark Ruggles. Cognitive Factors and Symptom Expression in Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Investigation of Cognitive Phenotypes and Central Coherence Performance in Relation to Symptomology

2005

• Laurie Harrier. The Learning Styles of Children Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as Determined by the Student Styles Questionnaire
• Jacqueline Beckett. Cluster Analysis of the Putative Diagnostic Distinctions between Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism
• Louanne Parker. The Relationship Between Adolescent Sensation Seeking and Personal Fable: Indications From Students Surveyed as a Component of a Safe Schools/Healthy Students Grant Evaluation
• Dana Tassione. Adolescent Connectedness and the Student Bystander’s Willingness to Report Targeted School Violence
• Debra Jennings. Temperment Based Cognitive Styles of Children with Social Emotional Disturbance
• Linda Pedersen. The Relationship Between Behavioral and Performance Based Measures of Executive Functioning in Preschool Children
• Suzanne Stevens. A Qualitative Evaluation of a Levels Program for Students with Emotional Disturbance in a Public School Separate Facility Setting
• Diana Ruiz. Family Routines and Rituals and the Parent-Child Relationship
• Carrie Wickiser. The Effects of Differing Types of Special Olympics Participation on the Social Competency of Mentally Retarded Participants
• Cheri Waggoner. Comparison of the BASC 2 PRS with the BASC PRS in a Population of Children and Adolescents Classified as HFA, Asperger’s Disorder or PDD NOS including Convergent Validity
• Cristin Dooley. The Behavioral and Developmental Outcomes of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants