Tom Higbee
Contact Information
| Phone: | 797-1933 |
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| Email: | Send Email |
| Office: | Ed 328 |
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| Center for Persons with Disabilities Admin Special Education & Rehabilitation 2865 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-2865 |
Director, Autism Support Services: Education, Research, and Training
• CPD Faculty Fellow
• Associate professor in the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation
• Founder and Director, Autism Support Services: Education, Research and Training program, an early intensive behavioral intervention program for children with autism. ASSERT is a collaborative effort of the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation and the CPD.
• Associate Editor: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
• On board of editors: Behavior Analysis in Practice
• Faculty member in the Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program at the CPD. URLEND is a multi-state collaborative program with the University of Utah Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics; the CPD; the Utah Department of Health’s Children with Special Health Care Needs Bureau; Primary Children's Medical Center; Family Voices organizations in the participating states, and CSHCN programs in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah.
• Twenty to thirty undergraduate students are employed at ASSERT at any given time. Five doctoral students are currently employed.
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Higbee has published and presented at the state and national level. Throughout his career, he has worked with children with autism and other developmental disabilities in homes, centers and school-based programs. Through workshops and consultation, he has trained teachers and related service providers in school districts in four states.
His research focuses on techniques that help individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities develop appropriate communication, academic, social, and life skills. His articles been published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of Special Education Technology, Education and Treatment of Children and Rural Special Education Quarterly.
