Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Fellowship Recipients
2006: Sarah O'Connor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Sarah O'Connor earned her Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology in 1998 at Loyola University, Chicago where she was awarded the Presidential Scholarship for academic excellence. She worked for a time as a research assistant to Dr. Eaaron Hendersen-King and with other psychologists conducting research involving psychometric testing. In 2000 Ms. O'Connor relocated to Ireland where she worked for local Government evaluating psychometric test performances. This work lead Ms. O'Connor to her enquiries into the functional nature of intelligence and the modern behavioral perspective which she now employs to develop behavioral interventions for intellectual deficit. Ms. O'Connor is currently working in the Department of Psychology at National University of Ireland, Maynooth as a Teaching Assistant. Her doctoral research, under the supervision of Dr. Bryan Roche, consists of a systematic investigation into the educational value of multiple exemplar interventions for derived relational skills. A series of such interventions, using a combination of procedures provided by Relational Frame Theory and the precision teaching tradition, have produced very modest but promising increases in relational skills and I.Q scores in a sample of normal children compared to controls. In her on-going research Ms. O'Connor plans to develop an integrated multiple exemplar intervention package that can be used in the educational context with both normal and intellectually challenged children. She hopes to use these developments in her future career as an applied behavior analyst in an educational setting.
Other 2006 Recipients:
Elizabeth Athens, University of Florida
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