Distinguished Lecturer Series: UC Davis M.I.N.D. InstituteLaura Schreibman, Distinguished Professor in the Psychology Department and Director of the Autism Research Program
University of California, San Diego
One of the country’s leading experts in behavioral treatments and approaches for autism, Laura Schreibman is a respected researcher in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and a licensed psychologist. She is one of the developers of Pivotal Response Training, a naturalistic intervention that has been shown to be effective for increasing communication, play, imitation, joint attention and social skills in children with this debilitating disorder. A professor at the University of California, San Diego since 1984, Schreibman is also director of the UCSD Autism Research Program, which is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and focused on the experimental analysis and treatment of autism. She is author of The Science and Fiction of Autism, a book published in November 2005 that provides information and arguments to deal with the onslaught of good, bad, deficient and irrelevant ideas about this mysterious disease.
