Kathryn Saunders, Ph.D.
Contact Information
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
4027 Dole Human Development Center
Lawrence, KS 66045
Research Interests
Individualized instruction for difficult-to-teach students
Early reading skills, especially phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle
Hearing assessment for children with autism or intellectual disability
Discrete-trial instruction, receptive language
Stimulus Control
Professional Service
President, Division 25 of the American Psychological Association;
Associate Editor, The Behavior Analyst;
Board of Editors, The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis;
Board of Directors, Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior;
Associate Editor, Board of Editors: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior;
Grant Reviewer, NIH, SBIR Special Emphasis Panel
Executive Council, Association for Behavior Analysis- International
Publications
Schmidt-Naylor, A. C., Saunders, K. J., & Brady, N. C. (2017). Developing the Alphabetic Principle to Aid Text-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use by Adults With Low Speech Intelligibility and Intellectual Disabilities. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26(2), 397-412. PMID 28474087
Saunders, K. J. (2011). Designing instructional programming for early reading skills. In W. Fisher, C. Piazza, & H. Roane (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis (pp. 92-109). New York: Guilford.
Saunders, K. J., Hine, K., Hayashi, Y., & Williams, D.C. (2016) Adventitious Reinforcement of Maladaptive Stimulus Control Interferes with Learning. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9, 223-229.
Saunders, K. J. (in press). A stimulus-control analysis of early reading skills. In W. Fisher, C. Piazza, & H. Roane (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Doughty, S. S., Anderson, C. M., Doughty, A. H., Williams, D. C., & Saunders, K. J. (2007). Discriminative control of punished stereotyped behavior in humans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 87, 325-336.
Saunders, K. J., & DeFulio, A. (2007). Phonological awareness and rapid naming predict word attack and word identification in adults with mild mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 112, 155-166.
Saunders, K. J. (2007). Word-attack skills in individuals with mental retardation. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 13, 78-84.
Williams, D. C., Johnston, M. D., & Saunders, K. J. (2006). Intertrial sources of stimulus control and delayed matching-to-sample performance in humans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 86, 253-267.
O’Donnell, J., & Saunders, K. J. (2003). Equivalence relations in individuals with language limitations and mental retardation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 80, 131-157.
Saunders, K. J., O’Donnell, J., Vaidya, M., & Williams, D. C. (2003). Recombinative generalization of within-syllable units in nonreading adults with mental retardation. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 36, 95-99.
O’ Donnell, J., & Saunders, K. J. (2003). Equivalence relations in individuals with language limitations and mental retardation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 80, 131-157.
Mueller, M. M., Olmi, D. Joe, & Saunders, K. J. (2000). Recombinative generalization of within-syllable units in prereading children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 33, 515-531.
Saunders, K. J., & Williams, D. C. (1998). Stimulus-control procedures. In K. A. Lattal & M. Perone (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in human operant behavior (pp. 193-228). New York: Plenum.