RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My work focuses on the assessment and treatment of severe challenging behaviors exhibited by children with and without disabilities within a conceptual framework of applied behavior analysis. My focus is to use this oreintation to develop effective assessments and treatments for both behavioral excesses such as aggression, destructive behavior, and self-injury, as well as for behavioral deficits, such as noncompliance, and lack of social or adaptive behaviors.

My colleagues, graduate students, and I have focused primarily on two problems in the area of child behavior therapy:

(1) The development of assessment techniques that identify effective treatments.

(2) Identification of the variables that influence the value of certain consequences for individuals and how those consequences can be used to decrease problem behaviors and increase adaptive behaviors.

The doctoral students on my team are actively involved in developing skills needed for both psychological service delivery and sholarship. I currently have a contract with the State of Louisiance Department of Education to train educators in the state who work with children with autism in instructional and behavior management techniques. My team also conducts research in many of the schools of the East Baton Rouge School District.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Call, N. A., Wacker, D. P., Ringdahl, J. E., & Boelter, E. W. (in press). Combined Antecedent Conditions as Motivating Operations within Functional Analyses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Roane, H. S., Call, N. A., Falcomata, T. S. (in press) An analysis of adaptive responding under open and closed economies. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Asmus, J. M., Ringdahl, J. E., Sellers, J. A., Call, N. A., Andelman, M. S., & Wacker, D. P. (2004). Use of a short-term inpatient model to evaluate aberrant behavior at the University of Iowa: Outcome data summaries from 1996-2001. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 3.

Call, N. A., Wacker, D. P., Ringdahl, J. E., Cooper-Brown, L. J., & Boelter, E. W. (2004) An assessment of antecedant events influencing noncompliance in an outpatient clinic. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 2, 145-157.

(updated 8/16/2004)

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