NEWS ABOUT THE VISIT OF ASS. PROFESSOR BLAKE HANSEN PH.D., CONDUCTED RESEARCH, PARENTS TRAINING, TWO LECTURES HELD IN COOPERATION WITH MSSA

Abstract

Macedonian Scientific Society for Autism (MSSA) in cooperation with Ass. Professor Blake Hansen Ph.D. and his team began conducting research and trainings that were held in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Ph.D. Ass. Professor Blake Hansen is a lecturer in Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA in the Department for advice psychology and special education. He is also a visiting professor at the University for Medicine in Utah, in the Department of pediatrics. His main areas of expertise are evaluation of challenging behavior and early intervention, instructions for reading and speech and small size sample research. He has worked with graduates from the areas of special education, early intervention, school psychology, advice, experimental psychology and speech language pathology. His research is focused on evaluation and intervention with challenging behavior with persons with intellectual disability, the different kinds and function of repetitive behavior and anxiety disorders.

Keywords

• research
• parent training
• news
• MSSA