Curriculum Vitae

Miriam Tillinger
1957 Commonwealth Ave. #1 Brighton, MA 02135 (617) 223-1589 tillinge@bc.edu EDUCATION 2009-2013 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Doctorate of Philosophy Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology Dissertation title: The influence of friends and family on well-being for children and adolescents with developmental disabilities Dissertation chair: Dr. Penny Hauser-Cram Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Master of Arts Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology Thesis title: Stress and coping in parents of children with autism passed with distinction The George Washington University, Washington, DC Bachelor of Arts Psychology (major)

2007-2009

2000-2004

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2012-2013 2010-2011 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College Fellowship Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program, Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA Completed over 400 hours of advanced interdisciplinary training for health and counseling professionals to develop their leadership potential to improve the lives of individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities Advisor: David Helm (Institute for Community Inclusion) Second Place Poster, Boston College Multidisciplinary PhD Research Day

2010

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011-Present Apex Behavioral Consulting, Boston, MA Clinical supervisor Supervise and manage ABA behavior programs Train and supervise staff, develop behavior support plans, consult with families Apex Behavioral Consulting, Boston, MA Behavior therapist Provide direct instruction with children with developmental disabilities Create, implement, and monitor skill acquisition and behavior reduction programs Early Intervention Collaborative Study, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Project manager Coordinated research activities of a team of undergraduate and graduate students

2010-Present

2011-2012

 Developed data coding procedures and manage data organization and analysis Principal investigator: Penny Hauser-Cram RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) 2009-2011 Early Intervention Collaborative Study, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Research assistant Conducted in-home interviews with young adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers as part of a longitudinal study on children with developmental disabilities and their families Principal investigator: Penny Hauser-Cram Education Development Center (EDC), Newton, MA Research assistant Holistic scoring of fourth grade students writing samples as part of the project Responding to the National Crisis in Writing: An Efficacy Study of an Elementary Grades Writing Program Principal investigator: Andrea Kotula Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Research assistant Conducted school and in-home observations and interviews with first-grade girls and their parents as part of the project Exploring Factors in the Social Ecology of the Home that Affect First-Grade Girls Spatial Skills and Early Math Strategies Developed surveys and data coding procedures Principal investigators: Beth Casey, Eric Dearing Institute for Community Inclusions (ICI), Boston, MA Research assistant Recruited participants and contributed to the design of the project Opt4College: An Online Pre-collegiate Curriculum for Students with Disabilities and/or Special Health Care Needs from Traditionally Underrepresented and/or Recent Immigrant Communities Principal investigator: Myra Rosen-Reynoso Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Research assistant Conducted in-school assessments with first-grade girls as part of the project Helping to Even the Odds for Girls in STEM Fields: Understanding the Basis for Girls Difficulties with Measurement Principal investigators: Beth Casey, Marina Vasilyeva Wireless Generation, New York, NY Study coordinator Coordinated reading coaches and literacy teachers at three Boston Public Schools in their implementation of Free Reading, an experimental reading intervention program for first-grade students Collected and analyzed classroom observation data and teacher feedback to evaluate program and ensure fidelity of implementation

2011

2008-2010

2009

2007-2008

2007-2008

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: PAPERS Tillinger, M., Lawrie, A., Heyman, M., Hauser-Cram, P. (2013, April). Views of family functioning among mothers and their adolescents with disabilities. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA. Tillinger, M., Lawrie, A., Heyman, M., Hauser-Cram, P. (2013, April). Views of family functioning among mothers and their adolescents with disabilities. Paper presented at the Boston College Graduate Education Association Research Forum, Chestnut Hill, MA. Tillinger, M., Woodman, A. C., Cannarella, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2011, March). Perceptions of self and family among adolescents with Developmental Disabilities. Paper presented at the Boston College Graduate Student Scholarship Symposium, Chestnut Hill, MA. Woodman, A. C., Tillinger, M., Reid, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2011, March). Parenting stress among fathers of children with developmental disabilities: From early childhood through adolescence. Paper presented at the Boston College Graduate Student Scholarship Symposium, Chestnut Hill, MA. Woodman, A. C., Tillinger, M., Reid, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2011, March). The role of coping in predicting parenting stress among fathers of children with developmental disabilities. Paper presented at the Boston College Graduate Education Association Research Forum, Chestnut Hill, MA. Woodman, A. C., Cannarella, A., Tillinger, M., Reid, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2010, March). The importance of marital quality in families with children with disabilities. Paper presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Annapolis, MD. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: POSTERS Heyman, M., Tillinger, M., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2013, March). Predicting young adult executive function from maternal well-being: A longitudinal study. Poster presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, San Antonio, TX. Heyman, M., Cannavina, M., Woodman, A. C., McMullan, M., Cannarella, A., Tillinger, M., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2012, June). Three magic wishes: Insight into the self-perceptions and goals of young adults with developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Charlotte, NC. Heyman, M., Woodman, A. C., Tillinger, M., Cannarella, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2012, March). Predicting ratings of adolescent motivation from early childhood indicators: A study of children with developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Annapolis, MD. Dulaney, A., Ganley, C. M., Tillinger, M., Vasilyeva, M., & Casey, B. M. (2011, April). Factors influencing fifth graders volume estimation strategies. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Woodman, A. C., Tillinger, M., Reid, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2011, April). Parenting stress among fathers of children with developmental disabilities: From early childhood through adolescence. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Tillinger, M., Woodman, A. C., Cannarella, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2011, March). Perceptions of self and family among adolescents with developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, San Antonio, TX. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: POSTERS (CONTINUED) Woodman, A. C., Tillinger, M., Cannarella, A., Hauser-Cram, P., Antonucci, R., Comstock, M., Jacobs, H., Rosenfeld, A. (2011, March). Parental concerns about the sexuality of their adolescents with developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, San Antonio, TX. Woodman, A. C., Cannarella, A., Tillinger, M., Reid, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2010, June). Early mastery motivation of a predictor of executive function in young adults with developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Annual Conference, Providence, RI. Woodman, A., Cannarella, A., Tillinger, M., Reid, A., & Hauser-Cram, P. (2010, April). Early mastery motivation as a predictor of executive function in young adults with developmental disabilities. Poster presented at the Boston College Graduate Education Association Research Forum, Chestnut Hill, MA. Dulaney, A., Ganley, C. M., Tillinger, M., Vasilyeva, M. & Casey, B. M. (2010, March). Exploring fifth-grade students difficulties in estimating volume of 3D objects. Poster presented at the Boston College Multidisciplinary PhD Research Development Day, Chestnut Hill, MA. BOOK CHAPTERS Hauser-Cram, P., Cannarella, A., Tillinger, M., & Woodman, A. C. (2012). Disabilities and development. In R. M. Lerner, A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 6: Developmental Psychology (pp. 547-570, 2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Dearing, E., Casey, B. M., Ganley, C. M., Tillinger, M., Laski, E., & Montecillo, C. (2012). Young girls arithmetic and spatial skills: The distal and proximal roles of family socioeconomics and home learning experiences. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(3), 458-470. Vasilyeva, M., Ganley, C. M., Casey, B., Dulaney, A., Tillinger, M., & Anderson, K. (2013). How children determine the size of 3D structures: Investigating factors influencing strategy choice. Cognition and Instruction, 31(1), 29-61. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012-2013 Instructor, Boston College Family, School, and Society Developed course curriculum for two sections of 45 undergraduate students The course considers the social and cultural contexts that shape developmental and education processes, focusing on understanding the nature of contemporary social problems including racism, sexism, ethnic prejudice, poverty and violence Instructor, Boston College Child Growth and Development Developed course curriculum for two sections of 45 undergraduate students The course acquaints students with multiple processes of child development including

2011-2012

physical, cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional development from birth through adolescence

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) 2005-2006 Pre-school assistant teacher Inclusion Classroom, Alphabet Land, Margate, FL Assisted teacher and led educational activities in pre-school inclusion classroom Residential instructor Boston Higashi School, Randolph, MA Taught daily living and social skills to 5-10 year old students on the autism spectrum Wrote quarterly assessments of students progress and abilities

2004-2005

ADDITIONAL TRAINING 2012-2013 Apprenticeship in College Teaching, Boston College Provides graduate students with a framework within which they can deliberately plan their development as teaching scholars (Connors Family Learning Center) Clinical Seminar Series, Boston Childrens Hospital Seminars on topics addressing in-depth critical issues for leaders in the area of services to children with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and their families

2010-2011

RESEARCH SKILLS Advanced methodology courses taken Design of qualitative research, quantitative research design, multivariate statistical analysis, multilevel regression models Statistical software Software Package for the Social Science (SPSS), Stata, Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) Psychological assessments Trained to be reliable on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, American Psychological Association-Division 33, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Member, Society for Research in Child Development REVIEWING Student reviewer, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

REFERENCES Penny Hauser-Cram, Ph.D. Professor Boston College, Lynch School of Education Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology Campion Hall 239B 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Tel: 617-552-8664 Email: hausercr@bc.edu Andrea Barruch, M.Ed., BCBA Director of Client Services Apex Behavioral Consulting 136 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 914-671-3770 Email: andrea.barruch@gmail.com Jacqueline Lerner, Ph.D. Professor Boston College, Lynch School of Education Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology Campion Hall 239C 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Tel: 617-552-2648 Email: jacqueline.lerner@bc.edu