Thomas S. Higbee Ph.D. Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Professor and Department Head EDUC 315C 435-797-1933 tom.higbee@usu.edu https://profile.usu.edu/sperc/images/directory/Higbee_Tom_Headshot.jpg /sperc/files/cvs/Thomas_Higbee_CV.pdf Behavior AnalysisAutismFunctional AssessmentIntervention Dr. Thomas S. Higbee is Professor and Department Head in the Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Department at Utah State University, where he has worked since 2002. He is also the Executive Director of the Autism Support Services: Education, Research, and Training (ASSERT) program, an early intensive behavioral intervention program for young children on the autism spectrum that he founded in 2003. A Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Dr. Higbee is a doctoral-level Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D) and a Licensed Behavior Analyst in the state of Utah. The primary focus of his research is on the development of effective supports for children on the autism spectrum and with related developmental disabilities. His secondary research focus is on the development of effective strategies for supporting the parents and professionals who love and support these children. He is a former associate editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) and the European Journal of Behavior Analysis. Dr. Higbee is committed to the broad dissemination of evidence-based supports for students on the autism spectrum and with related disabilities and has helped to create intensive behavior analytic preschool and school programs for these children in Brazil, Russia, Portugal, and throughout his home state of Utah.  He is the past president of the Utah Association for Behavior Analysis (UtABA) and has served as a member of the Practice Board of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (SEAB), the Utah Psychologist Licensing Board, and the Utah Behavioral Health Licensing Board. A00016402 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S7rEFX8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Google Scholar