Behavioral Parent Training to Address Sleep Disturbances in Young Children with ASD

Cynthia Rheney Johnson PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, is the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism. Dr. Johnson has provided program development, clinical care and clinical supervision for youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for 30 years. Additionally, she has conducted clinical research on the assessment and treatment of children with autism. She has been the principal investigator of several National Institute of Health and other federally funded grants. In addition to the work behind this work, she has had funding to test the efficacy of behavior analytic parent training in the treatment of disruptive behavior in young children with (ASD) and the treatment of feeding problems. She was a primary developer of the behavioral parent training intervention used in both the Research Unit in Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) and the Research Unit for Behavior Intervention (RUBI) consortiums. Dr. Johnson is a licensed psychologist and a board-certified behavior analyst.