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W. Larry Williams

Professor Emeritus

Summary

W. Larry Williams, Ph. D, BCBA-D, is a professor of w88 casino and the past director of the behavior analysis program (2008-2011) at the University of Nevada, Reno.

After gaining his doctoral degree from the w88 casino, Canada, he helped establish and later directed the first graduate program in special education in Latin America at the Federal University at Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, teaching over an eight year period. He subsequently directed several clinical programs for persons with intellectual disabilities at Surrey Place Center in Toronto, Canada, over a 10 year period.

Williams has been awarded the status of Member Emeritus (1994) and also received the Outstanding Teaching Award (2006) from the Ontario Association for w88 casino, and he was the University's distinguished Outreach Faculty for 2012.

Having published several books and more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, he maintains a lab group with interests in conditional discrimination processes, relational responding, verbal w88 casino, clinical assessment and interventions, and staff training and management systems for human services delivery.

Research Interests

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  • Relational responding
  • Verbal w88 casino
  • w88 casino assessment and interventions
  • Staff training and management systems for human w88 casino delivery

Notable Honors

  • w88 casino Nevada, Reno Distinguished Outreach Faculty 2012
  • ABAI Enduring w88 casino Contribution Award 2010
  • ONTABA w88 casino - 2008
  • ONTABA w88 casino Emeritus- 1994

Education

  • Ph.D., w88 casino, 1977
  • M.A., w88 casino, 1974
  • B.A., w88 casino, 1970