| Biography |
I have graduated from York and am currently pursuing an MA in Applied Disability Studies at Brock University.
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| Research interests |
Applied Behaviour Analysis, Behaviour Therapy, Autism, Anxiety, Depression, Children, Youth
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| Research experience |
Undergraduate Specialized Honours Thesis (June 2014 – April 2015)
Dr. Jonathan Weiss – Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Lab
Emotional Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation in Children with High-Functioning ASD
• Developed knowledge of emotion regulation by coding abnormal child self-regulation and parental co-regulation behaviours in videos of child and parent engaging in the 15-minute Emotion Discussion Task
• Currently involved in coding Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Samples (AFMSS), scoring various attitudes that a parent may display while talking about his or her child
Research Assistant (Volunteer): Nov. 2012 – April 2014
Dr. Jonathan Weiss – Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Lab
• Gained knowledge about ASD and mental health research by writing lay summaries for the ASD Mental Health blog
• Scored psychological scales for a multisite CBT project with children and youth with ASD, such as the CBCL, GHQ, ABAS, Spence Child Anxiety Scale, and SRS
• Performed various data entry tasks within the lab for the Secret Agent Society (SAS) project, such as transcriptions of parents’ five-minute speech and burning therapy sessions onto DVDs
Research Assistant (Volunteer): April 2014 – September 2015
Dr. Chandan Narayan – Speech and Perception (SAP) Lab
• Scored the Cattell Culture Fair III test
• Developed speech sample analysis skills by extracting representative samples from adult-directed and infant-directed speech for a speech rate analysis study
• Learned how to find and summarize relevant research through helping compile an annotated bibliography of articles for a review of infant perception all types of native and non-native linguistic contrasts and for the speech rate paper
Research Assistant (Volunteer) July-August 2013 and June 2014 – September 2015
Surrey Place Centre (under Dr. Barry Isaacs)
• Entered data from the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) questionnaire, which assesses various adaptive behaviours in children, into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
• Coded and quantified the demographic and main survey data to make it suitable for subsequent analysis
Research Assistant (Volunteer) January 2015 – May 2015
Dr. Ellen Bialystok – Cognitive Development Lab
• Test participants for a bilingualism and emotion study, including verbal administration of the LSBQ (Language and Social Background Questionnaire) and the K-BIT
• Perform miscellaneous administrative tasks for various research projects
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| Skill and resources |
• SPSS, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, some knowledge of R
• Survey Design
• Research Ethics – Completion of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans Course on Research Ethics (TCPS 2: CORE)
• CPR and CPI Certified
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