Dr Sarah Mead Jasperse

Dr. Sarah C. Mead Jasperse is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Special Education, and Neuroscience Division at Emirates College for Advanced Education and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Dartmouth College (USA), a Master of Education from Harvard University (USA), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Florida (USA). She has been licensed as an elementary (primary) school teacher in the USA since 2005 and has been board certified as a behavior analyst since 2011. Dr. Mead Jasperse’s primary line of research addresses the prevention, assessment, and treatment of severe and dangerous challenging behavior (e.g., aggression and self-injurious behavior), especially in individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. She also conducts and supervises applied research in the areas of functional skill acquisition and staff training and supervision. She has served on the executive committees of the Kansas Association for Behavior Analysis, the Mid-American Association for Behavior Analysis, and the Illinois Association for Behavior Analysis and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Analysis in Practice and is an Associate Editor for Education and Treatment of Children.