Robin Dodds
California State University Los Angeles Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Special Education
Los Angeles, CA
My primary research interests focus on supporting families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related Developmental Disabilities in two ways; through Parent to Parent social support and through parent-mediated interventions for social communication. Additionally, it is imperative to bring evidence-based interventions to underserved communities. Over the next several years, I will be involved in research projects that encompass these interests. These projects involve; a) adapting Parent to Parent, an evidence-based social support program, for culturally and linguistically diverse parents of children with ASD and other developmental disorders, b) developing and assessing an online parent training in Pivotal Response Teaching for toddlers with ASD in low-resource communities and, c) comparing the effects of online and traditional social support mechanisms for parents of children with disabilities.