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This edition includes:

Spring 2015

School Psychology

Program Newsletter

Spring has arrived and there is plenty to get caught up on

in the School Psychology Program!

Looking for even more information on our program? Check out our website:

http://education.uky.edu/EDP/content/school-psych-overview

*Faculty

Awards…………………….2

*Congratulations…...……3

*Faculty & Student

Presentations…………….4

*Faculty & Student

Publications…...................5

*Program Updates &

Announcements……….6-8

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Faculty awards

Congratulations to Dr. Alicia Fedewa and Dr.

Sycarah Fisher

For receiving the Teacher Who Made a Difference Award from the College of

Education for both of their outstanding contributions as faculty members!

Thank you, Dr. Fedewa and Dr. Fisher, for your outstanding work as

faculty members of the school psychology program.

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Congratulations!


Congratulations to the following students for earning a Mas-

ter of Science in Education in December 2014:

Cailin Collins

Katie Hastings

Kirsten Scheil

Kyle Widdison

Venus Wong

The following students have defended their dissertation in School

Psychology this Spring and will graduate in May 2015:

Jessie Birdwhistell

Brian Gustman

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Faculty and *Student presentations and Grants

Belkin, T. & *Rodgers, A. D. (2015, May). A meta-analysis of between group interventions for adults with Au-tism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presentation at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research.

Campbell, J. M. (November 2014). Screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders: Evidence-based assess-ment recommendations for DSM-5 revisions. Kentucky Association of Physician Assistants, Lexington, KY.

Cheung, S. C., Uzuegbunam, N, *Wong, W. H., & Ruble, A. L. (2015, July). MEBook: Kinect-based self-modeling intervention for children with autism. Paper accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Mul-timedia and Expo 2015. Torino, Italy.

*Davis, M. C., Toland, M., Campbell, J. M., Murphy, L. E., & Gardner, L. M. (May, 2015). An item response the-ory analysis of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition (CARS-2). Poster presented at the Inter-national Meeting for Autism Research. Salt Lake City, UT.

Fisher, S., & Reynolds, J. (2015, February). Does School Diversity Matter? An Examination of Bullying. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists. Orlando, FL.

Graybill, E., Baker, C. N., Cloth, A., Fisher, S., Nastasi, B. K. Miranda, A., Power, T. J., Shriberg, D., & Pril-leltensky, I. (2015, February). An analysis of social justice research in school psychology. Symposium present-ed at the National Association for School Psychologists Annual Convention, Orlando, FL

Reynolds, J. L., Shrock, J., Kane, P., Cochrane, W. & Fisher, S. (2015, February). Behavior specific praise state-ments as a tier 1 behavior intervention. Poster presented at the National Association of School Psychologists, Orlando, FL. Fisher, S., (2015). Behavior Specific Praise Statements as a Tier 1 Behavior Intervention

*Rodgers, A. D., Ables, A. P., Ruble, L. A., Kuravackel, G. M., Reese, R. J., Odom, J. A., & Jackson, M. W. (2015, May). A COMPASS for Hope: A parent training and support ?program for children with ASD and problem behavior. Poster presentation at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research.

Ruble, L., *Wong, V., Rodgers, A., McGrew, J., & Grisham-Brown, J. (May, 2015). Does COMPASS Improve Common Elements of Instructional Quality? Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Re-search. Salt Lake City, UT.

Scheil, K. A., Campbell, J. M., Bowers-Campbell, J., Davis, M. C., Caldwell, B., & Jacob, R. (May 2015). Students' Evaluation of an Autism Peer Education Program: Initial Impressions of the Kit for Kids. Paper presented at the In-ternational Meeting for Autism Research. Salt Lake City, UT.

*Wong, V., & Ruble, L., (2015). Theory of Planned Behavior and Teachers’ Intentions to Collect Data. Poster presentation at the 2015 National Association of School Psychologists.

*Wong, W. H., Fisher, S., & Yang, H. W. (2015, February). Perceived safety, social problem solving skills, and the nature of bullying. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psy-chologists. Orlando, FL.

Uzuegbunam, N, *Wong, W. H.,Cheung, S. C., & Ruble, A. L. (2015, May). MeBook: Kinect-based self-modeling intervention for children with autism. Technical demonstration accepted at the International Meet-ing for Autism Research. Salt Lake City, Utah.

New Grant

Dr. Ruble and co-investigators Dr. John McGrew from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Dr. Claire Snell-Rood from the UK College of Medicine, Dr. Harold Kleinert from UK HDI, and Dr. Michael Toland from the UK College of Education received a $700,000 NIH grant to adapt and test COMPASS for improving transition outcomes for youth with autism spectrum disorders. Doctoral students Alexis Rodgers and Venus Wong are research assistants. For more information see the following link: http://uknow.uky.edu/content/


http://uknow.uky.edu/content/autism-after-high-school-making-transition

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Faculty and *Student Publications

*Alumbaugh, A., Fedewa, A. L., & Cerel, J. (2015). Teachers’ experiences with grieving students. Aca-

demic Exchange Quarterly, 19(1).

Barger, B. D., Campbell, J. M., & Simmons, C. A. (in press). The five factor personality model in children

with ASD during middle childhood. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities.

Campbell, J. M., Ruble, L. A., & Hammond, R. K. (2015). Children and adolescents with disabilities: Impli-

cations for interventions. In H. T. Prout and A. L. Fedewa (Eds.), Counseling and psychotherapy with

children and adolescents (5th ed., pp. 357-398). New York: Wiley.

Esler, A., & Ruble, L. (2015).DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder with implications

for school psychologists. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology.

Fedewa, A. L. & *Davis, M. C. (in press). How food as a reward is detrimental to children’s health, learn-

ing, and behavior. Journal of School Health.

Fedewa, A. L., *Davis, M. C., & Ahn, S. (2015). A randomized controlled design investigating the effects

of stability balls on children’s on-task behavior, achievement, and discipline referrals. Journal of Oc-

cupational Therapy.

Fedewa, A. L., Erwin, H. A.., Ahn, S., *Davis, M.C. (2015). A randomized controlled design investigating

the effects of classroom-based physical activity on children’s fluid intelligence. School Psychology

International.

Joseph, J. E., Zhu, X., Gundran, A., Clark, J., Ruble, L., Glaser, P. & Bhatt, R. (2014). Typical and atypical

neurodevelopment for face specialization: an fMRI study. Journal of Autism and Developmental

Disorders.

Kuravackel, G., & Ruble, L. (2014). Autism Spectrum Disorders: Reasons for treatment referrals across

the developmental life span. Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association, 12(3), 51-56.

Prout, H. T. & Fedewa, A. L. (Eds, 2015). Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents:

Theory and practice for school and clinical settings (Fifth Edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: John

Wiley and Sons Inc.

Prout, H. T. & Fedewa, A. L. (2015). Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents: His-

torical, developmental, integrative, and effectiveness perspectives. In Prout & Fedewa (Eds.) Coun-

seling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents: Theory and practice for school and clinical

settings (Fifth Edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Prout, H. T. & Fedewa, A. L. (2015). Ethical and legal issues in psychological interventions with children

and adolescents. In Prout & Fedewa (Eds.) Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adoles-

cents: Theory and practice for school and clinical settings (Fifth Edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: John

Wiley and Sons Inc.

Southall, C., & Campbell, J. M. (2015). What does research say about social perspective-taking interven-

tions for students with HFASD? Exceptional Children, 81, 194-208.


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Program Updates and Announcements

Spring 2015 Social Skills Groups at the CASPER Clinic!

This semester several school psychology graduate students, supervised by Dr. Hammond

and third year PhD students Alexis Rodgers and Cody Davis, are collaborating to lead two

early adolescent social skills groups. Katie Hastings and Kyle Widdison, both second year

EDS students, are leading a group focusing on skills such as listening and other conversa-

tion skills. Cailin Collins, second year EDS student, and Kirsten Scheil, second year PhD

student, are leading a group focusing on understanding others, feelings, and using self-

control. Eight of the nine group members are returning to the CASPER clinic for social skills

instruction, while one group member is enjoying his first social group experience! The

groups will meet once a week for six weeks with information and progress monitoring mate-

rials provided to parents and teachers of the group members. Venus Wong led a parent

session on February 24th on “Self-efficacy and Adolescence”.


On January 16th, 2015 Kelly Shanks, NCSP,

lead a professional training opportunity for the

School Psychology students. The presentation

“Crisis Prevention and Intervention in Schools: An

Overview” provided students with variable re-

sources and insights into this important domain.

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Annual Ugly Sweater Holiday Bowling Party

The school psychology students and faculty celebrated the holidays

at the bowling alley while rocking their ugly sweaters.

Light it Up Blue

The School Psychology program took part

in a campaign called "Light it up Blue," in

honor of Autism Awareness Month in April.

We illuminated Taylor Education building

in blue. Our own Kyle Widdison designed

the t-shirts.

Thank you to all who participated in this

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APA Accreditation

The doctoral program has been accredited for five years by the Commission

on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association.

Thank you to everyone in the program, department, and University - faculty,

students, supervisors, administrators - for their efforts in hosting a successful site

visit in December 2014.

NASP Conference 2015

Documents

School Psychology Program Newsletter...Poster presentation at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research. Campbell, J. M. (November 2014). Screening and diagnosis of autism