We feel extremely fortunate to have John as part of our clinical team at Peak Behavioral Services! John has more than 40 years of experience providing Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to children and adults diagnosed with Developmental Delays such as Autism. He presently serves as a consultant with the Pennsylvania Autism Initiative, which provides educational and behavioral health consultation to school districts in Pennsylvania. He serves as an adjunct faculty member for the Graduate School of Special Education at Wilkes University. John’s research and clinical interests include applications of Relational Frame Theory as well as Precision Teaching to increase language development.

He has presented frequent workshops at national and international conferences on developing generative language programs and he has numerous peer-reviewed publications in journals specializing in ABA and just co-published a book on language development.

See the book at https://hedgehogpublishers.com/product/rfthandbookv1/?fbclid=IwAR2bq8desmDnqzSTQYg3qrogwyvTCfN-fRr8_g6WX9nf1ERO8UHx5kf1QjY

Below are some of John’s more recent articles.

Ming, S., Stewart, I., McElwee, J., & Bynum, K. (2015). Contextual Control Over Derived Relational Responding in a Teenager with Autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders,19 :7-17.

Moran, L., Walsh, L., Stewart, I., McElwee, J., & Ming, S. (2015). Correlating Derived Relational Responding with Linguistic and Cognitive Ability in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders,19: 32-43.

Moran, L., Stewart, I., McElwee, J., & Ming, S. (2014). Relational Ability and Language Performance in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders & TypicallyDeveloping Children: A Further Test of the TARPA Protocol. The Psychological Record. 64(2), 233-251.

Stewart, I., McElwee, J., & Ming, S. (2013).Language generativity, response generaliztion and derived relational responding. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 29, 137-155.

Moran, L., Stewart, I., McElwee, J., & Ming, S. (2010). Brief Report: The Training and Assessment of Relational Precursors and Abilities (TARPA): A Preliminary Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40(9),1149-1153.

Got any questions? I’m happy to help.