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Leadership: |
UCEDD Director Principal Investigator | ||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline(s): |
Education/Special Education |
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AUCD Council Membership: |
National Training Directors' Council |
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Research: | Maltreatment of people with disabilities; linking training and technical assistance to outcomes; effective instructional practices | ||||||||||||||||||||
Education: | 1986 Ed.D. Special Education: Severe Disabilities, Johns Hopkins University
1980 M.S. Special Education: Severe Disabilities, Johns Hopkins University 1975 B.S. Elementary and Special Education, K-12, Unviersity of Maryland | ||||||||||||||||||||
Service: | Chair, AUCD SIG Abuse/Neglect
Member, AUCD Legislative Affairs Committee assisting AUCD on APRAIS (Alliance to Prevent Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion) |
Vita/Bio
NAME: Gilles, Donna L.
TITLE ON TRAINING GRANT: Executive Director
EDUCATION:
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
Ed.D. M.S
B.S |
1986 1980
1975 |
Education, Severe Disabilities Education, Severe Disabilities
Special Education/ Elementary Education |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND APPOINTMENTS
2011- Executive Director, Partnership for People with Disabilities, UCEDD (Acting 07/01/11-02/10/12)
2007-2011 Associate Director of Operations, Partnership for People with Disabilities, UCEDD; Training Director, Va-LEND;Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1995-2007 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Florida: Associate Director, UF-Gainesville Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. Director and Co-PI, FL Outreach Project for Children and Young Adults who are Deaf-Blind.
1991-1995 Faculty: Assistant Scholar, Department of Special Education, College of Education, University of Florida: Director, Project CITES: Comprehensive Inservice Training in Exemplary Strategies. Director, Volusia County/University of Florida Collaborative Training Project. Coordinator, Project SUPPORT
OFFICES/MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, ADVISORY COUNCILS, BOARDS
TASH (f/n/a The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps) (1978 - lifetime): President (2000-2003), other offices; Council for Exceptional Children (1975 - ), Developmental Disabilities Division; American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (1981 - ), Education Division.
MAJOR RESEARCH/PROFESSIONAL INTEREST
Maltreatment of people with disabilities
Innovative practices for people with complex support needs including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, sensory losses with additional disabilities including deaf-blindness, and multiple disabilities.
Linking technical assistance provision to outcomes
Health Promotion for individuals with developmental disabilities.
RESEARCH OR TRAINING SUPPORT: Co-PI and Training Director, Virginia LEND;
Principal Investigator, Virginia Health Promotion for People with Disabilities Project;
Principal Investigator, Virginia Project for Children and Young Adults with Deaf-Blindness
PUBLICATIONS:
Oswald, D.P., Bodurtha, J.N., Willis, J.H., Gilles, D.L., Christon, L.M., Ogston, P.L., Tlusty, S.M. (2011). Disparities in the clinical encounter: Virginia’s African American children with special health care needs. ISRN Pediatrics, vol. 2011, Article ID 273938, 8 pages, 2011. doi:10.5402/2011/273938.
Smith, S.W., & Gilles, D.L. (2003). Using key instructional elements for systematically promoting social skill generalization for students with challenging behavior. Intervention in School and Clinic, 39(1), 30-37.
Gilles, D.L., & Clark, D. (2001). Collaborative teaming in the assessment process. In S. Alper, D. Ryndak & C.N. Schloss, Alternate assessment of students with disabilities in inclusive settings (pp. 75-87). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Fox, L., & Williams (Gilles), D. (1992). Preparing teachers of students with severe disabilities. Teacher Education and Special Education, 15(2), 97-107.
Oswald, D.P., Gilles, D.L., Cannady, M. Wenzel, D., Willis, J.H., Bodurtha, J.N. Youth with special health care needs: Transition to adult health care services. In Final Preparation for submissionl.
Gilles, D.L., & Valcante, G. (to be revised and resubmitted to alternate journal).The effects of visual prompting on skill acquisition by individuals with severe disabilities: A modified shaping approach.
Oliva, C., Brown, F., & Gilles, D. (to be revised and resubmitted to alternate journal). Contingent electric shock for challenging behavior: Searching for an evidence-base.