Research & Publications

To provide children and young adults with autism effective science-based intervention, and to disseminate our work through research, publication, presentation, and collaboration both nationally and internationally.

Research

Under the direction of Susan M. Vener, Ph.D., S.A.S., and Alison Gillis, Ph.D., BCBA -D, to advance the science of applied behavior analysis, a team of researchers at RISE NY, conduct research, and disseminate findings in peer-reviewed journals.

Publications

Author: Vener, S.M. Gillis, A. (textbook in progress)
Topic: Generalization of behavior change in applied behavior analysis. Integrating research into practice.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Author: Gillis, A. M., Vener, S. M., & Poulson, C. L. (2023)
Topic: Teaching social skills. In: Matson, J.L. (eds), Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series.
Publisher: Springer, Cham.

Author: Vener, S.M., Gillis, A. M., & Poulson, C. L. (2021)
Topic: Increasing verbal behavior in a young adolescent girl with catatonia and autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04843-3

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Author: Vener, S.M., Wichnick-Gillis, A.M., & Poulson, C.L. (2019)
Topic: Increasing verbal behavior in a young adolescent girl with catatonia and autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2018.09.006

Author: Wichnick-Gillis, A. M., Vener, S. M., & Poulson, C. L. (2019)
Topic: Script fading for children with autism: Generalization of social initiation skills from school to home. Manuscript submitted for publication to the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.534

Author: Vener, S. M., Gillis, A.M., & Poulson, C. L. (2017)
Topic: Observational Methods. In J.L Matson (Ed.), Handbook of social behavior and skills in children (pp 83-99). Publisher: Springer International Publishing/Springer Nature.

Author: Danou, N., Vener, S.M., & Poulson, C.L. (2014).
Topic: Analysis of three components of affective behavior in children with autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 8, 480-501. Retrieved from http://ees.elsevier.com/RASD/default.asp.

Author: Wichnick, A.M., Vener, S.M. Pyrtek, M., and Poulson, C.L. (2010)
Topic: The effect of script-fading procedure on responses to peer initiations among young children with autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4(2), 290-299.

Author: Wichnick, A.M., Vener, S.M., Keating, C., & Poulson, C.L. (2010).
Topic: The effect of script-fading procedure in unscripted social initiations and novel utterances among young children with autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4, 51-64.