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Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Training Director |
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Discipline Coordinators: |
Psychology Psychology: Developmental |
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Discipline(s): |
Psychology |
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AUCD Council Membership: |
National Training Directors' Council No Council Membership |
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Education: | St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA; B.A.; 1973
St. Francis College, Fort Wayne, IN; M.S.; 1977 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; PhD; 1984 Psychology Pre-Clinical Psychology Psychology |
Vita/Bio
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Give the following information for all professional personnel contributing to the training program. Use continuation page to expand any item.
(DO NOT EXCEED 2 PAGES ON ANY INDIVIDUAL)
Name (Last, first, middle initial)
Biasini, Fred, J. |
Title Associate Director, Civitan/Sparks Clinics Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UAB |
Birth Date (Mo, Day, Year) 06/19/51 |
EDUCATION (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education and include postdoctoral training)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION |
DEGREE |
YEAR CONFERRED |
FIELD OF STUDY |
St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA St. Francis College, Fort Wayne, IN University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL |
B.A. M.S. Ph.D. |
1973 1977 1984 |
Psychology Pre-Clinical Psychology Psychology |
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS, LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION
Alabama Licensed Psychologist #494
OFFICES/MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, ADVISORY COUNCILS, BOARDS, ETC.
Member, JCCEO Head Start Health Advisory Committee
Chair, Birmingham Catholic Diocese School Board
Task Force Member, McWane Science Center
Past President, Alabama Division for Early Childhood
Past Board Member, Prevent Child Abuse Alabama
MAJOR RESEARCH/PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
The impact of early environment on the cognitive and social development of infants and toddlers; Teen parenting; Computer based interventions for children with Autism
RESEARCH OR TRAINING SUPPORT (List all grants on which you currently contribute effort and/or from which you receive support and specify the percent effort on each.)
UAB Early Head Start (PI, $924,000 , 06-07) 25%
Maternal and Child Health Bureau Training Grant (Associate Director, $3.1 million, 06-11) 10%
Administration on Developmental Disabilities (Associate Director, $2 million, 02-07) 10%
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND APPOINTMENTS: Starting with present position, list professional employment and academic appointments.
Associate Director, Civitan/Sparks Clinics 2004 - present
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UAB 2003 - present
Director, UAB Early Head Start, UAB 1998 - present
Director, Clinical Training, Civitan/Sparks Clinics, UAB 1990 - present
Psychology Coordinator, Newborn Follow-Up Clinic, UAB 1982 - present
PUBLICATIONS: Starting with the most recent, list publications, or the most relevant and representative ones to fit within the 2 page limit.
Alriksson-Schmidt, A., Wallander, J., & Biasini, F. (in press). Quality of Life in Adolescents with
a mobility disability. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
Hopkins, I.M., Bates, M.J., Crowson, S.B., Pearson, R.K. & Biasini, F.B. (2007). Enhancing Cognitive-
Emotional Skills for Children with Developmental Disabilities through Computer-Based
Training. Published Abstract, 40th Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory
In Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities. Annapolis, Maryland.
Hopkins, M. & Biasini, F. (May 2006). Children with Fragile x Syndrome and Children with Autism
Show Distinct Impairments in Emotional Understanding. Published Abstract, 18th Annual Convention for the Association for Psychological Science. New York, New York.
Hopkins, M. Ross, L. & Biasini, F. (2005). Understanding Facial Expressions: A Comparative Study
of Typical Children and Children with Autism or Fragile x Syndrome. Published Abstract, 38th Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities. Annapolis, Maryland.
Guest, K. C. & Biasini, F. J. (2001). Middle childhood, poverty, and adjustment: Does social support
have an impact? Psychology in the Schools, 38(6).
Ambalavanan N. Nelson KG. Alexander G. Johnson SE. Biasini F. Carlo WA. (2000). Prediction of
neurologic morbidity in extremely low birth weight infants. Journal of Perinatology, 20(8):496-
503.
Biasini, F., Grupe, L., Huffman, L., & Bray, N. W., (1999). Mental retardation: A Symptom and a
syndrome. In S. Netherton, D. Holmes, & C. E. Walker (Eds), Comprehensive Textbook of
Child and Adolescent Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.
Paris, M. & Biasini, F. (1993). Alabama's Early Intervention System: A review of services in the Ft.
McClellan's and Ft. Rucker's catchment areas vs. Army, Washington, DC.
Urey, J., & Biasini, F. (1989). Evaluating the difficult child. Teaching Exceptional Children, 21, 10-13.
Gotlieb, S.J., Biasini, F.J., & Bray, N.W.(1988). Visual recognition memory in IUGR and normal birth-
weight infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 11, 139-144.
Biasini, F., & Bray, N.W. (1986). Comparison and message formation skills in the referential
communication of the severely mentally retarded. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 90,
686-693.
Rutstein, R., Wesson, M., Gotlieb, S., & Biasini, F. (1986). Visual patterns in infants with intrauterine
growth retardation. American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics, 63, 697-701.
Bray, N., Biasini, F., & Thrasher, K. (1983). The effect of communicative demands on request-making
in the moderately and severely retarded. Applied Research in Mental Retardation, 4, 13-28.