coe-staff: Please welcome Stephanie Shire

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,

I am pleased to announce that Stephanie Shire will be joining us as an Assistant Professor this September in the Special Education and Clinical Sciences Department.  Stephanie graduated in 2013 with a Ph.D. in Human Development and Psychology from UCLA.  Since that time she has served as a post-doctoral scholar in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, and as a volunteer trainer for the World Health Organization where she has conducted Autism-related training in Japan, China, Korea, and Macedonia.  

Stephanie's research career is centered on community based intervention and communication skill development for children with Autism.  She has 21 journal articles, 4 book chapters, and 1 book to her credit.  A sampling of Stephanie's recent research works include;

Shire, S.Y., Chang, Y.C., Shih, W., Bracaglia, S., Kodjoe, M., & Kasari, C. (in press). Hybrid implementation model of community partnered early intervention for toddlers with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Shire, S.Y., Shih, W., & Kasari, C. (in press). Short Play and Communication Evaluation: Teachers’ assessment of core social communication and play skills with children with autism. Autism.

Chang, Y.C., Shire, S.Y., Shih, W., & Kasari., C. (2016). Preschool deployment of evidence-based social communication intervention: JASPER in the classroom. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 46, 2211-23

Shire, S.Y., Gulsrud, A., & Kasari, C. (2016). Increasing responsive parent-child interactions and joint engagement: Comparing the influence of parent-mediated intervention and parent psychoeducation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 46(5), 1737-1747.

Please join me in welcoming Stephanie to our faculty, and in thanking our early intervention search committee for their diligence and skill.

Regards,

Randy 
C Provost Scott Coltrane, Associate Provost Doug Blandy, Vice President David Conover

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