Jason C. Vladescu

Jason C. Vladescu, Ph.D., BCBA-D, NSCP, LBA(NY), is the Founding Chair & Professor of the Applied Behavior Analysis Program at SUNY Downstate and is a Founding Partner at The Capstone Center. Jason completed his pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute. He is the co-author of the book Statistics for Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners and Researchers and has published 85+ peer-reviewed articles and book chapters spanning his research interests in early behavioral intervention for children with autism spectrum and related disorders, increasing the efficiency of academic instruction, staff and caregiver training, equivalence-class formation, and mainstream applications of behavior analysis. Jason is on the Science Board of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and is a current or former Associate Editor for Behavior Analysis in Practice and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. He currently or previously served on the editorial board for Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, Behavioral Interventions, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, The Psychological Record, School Psychology, Behavioral Development, and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. He was the 2020 recipient of the B.F. Skinner Foundation New Researcher Award. Outside of his professional endeavors, Jason enjoys traveling, diving into biographies and science fiction, playing pickleball, and indulging in his passion for pizza.