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Special Education
276B Education Building
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
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Research Biography

My teaching and research focuses on assessment and treatment of behavior disorders such as aggression, property destruction, and self-injurious behavior within a Behavior Analytic conceptual model. Current research projects are investigating the effects of early intervention and prevention treatment packages for birth-to-five children with disabilities exhibiting emerging behavior disorders. The focus of the research projects are to develop behaviorally-based parent training programs to enhance child communication and reduce self-injury, chronic stereotypic behavior, and other common early childhood behavior problems such as tantrums.

Degrees

  • Post Doc Fellow, Department of Behavioral Psychology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1998
  • Ph.D., School Psychology, minor Applied Behavior Analysis, University of Iowa, 1997
  • B.A., Psychology and Political Science, University of Iowa, 1991

Key Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Special Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006--
  • Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2003-2006
  • Investigator, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas, 2001-2003
  • Investigator, Institute for Child Development, University of Kansas Medical Center, 2001-2003
  • Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 1999-2003

Activities & Honors

  • B. F. Skinner New Researcher Award, Div. 25, American Psychological Association, 2004
  • National Institutes of Health Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program, National Institutes of Health, 2003-2006

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Traditional Faculty Fellow: Early Intervention and Prevention of Disruptive Behavior Exhibited by Young Children with Developmental Disabilities, Bureau of Educational Research, 2008
  • Principal Investigator, Examining Relations between Challenging Behavior and Parenting Stress in Families of Children With CdLS, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Down Syndrome, Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation, 2008
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Project FOCAL: Focusing On Causality and Assessment to Train Leaders in Children's Communication Disabilities, U.S. Department of Education, 2007
  • Principal Investigator, Early Intervention for Self-Injury in Young Children, National Institutes of Health, 2006

Selected Publications

  • Gregory, M., DeLeon, I., & Richman, D. M. (in press). Assessment of Prerequisite Skills for Manual Sign and Picture Exchange Communication Systems. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
  • Brusa, E. & Richman, D. (in press). Establishing stimulus control to decrease stereotypy exhibited by a child with autism. International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy
  • Richman, D. (2008). Early intervention and prevention of self-injurious behavior exhibited by young children with severe developmental delays. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 5, 3-17. 
  • Richman, D. (2007). Editorial: Comments on the Journal of Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention Edition 3(4) –4(1). Journal of Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention, 3.4–4.1, 282-283.
  • Richman, D., Gernat, E., & Teichman, H. (2006). The effects of social stimuli on smiling and laughing in young children with Angelman syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 111, 442-446.

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