Lab Members

Tiffany Kodak, Ph.D., BCBA-D

Faculty Advisor
E-mail: kodak@uwm.edu

Dr. Tiffany Kodak is an assistant professor in the Experimental Program in the Department of Psychology. Prior to joining the faculty at UWM, Dr. Kodak served as the Director of the School Psychology program at the University of Oregon, directed the Early Intervention program at the Munroe-Meyer Institute in the University of Nebraska Medical (UNMC) Center, and was a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at UNMC. She graduated from Louisiana State University in 2006 with a Ph.D. in school psychology, and received the APA Division 25 Applied Behavior Analysis dissertation award in 2006. Dr. Kodak completed her graduate internship at The Marcus Institute in Atlanta, GA. Her post-doctoral fellowship was completed in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Wayne Fisher. Her research has focused on several general topics, including skill acquisition, choice, and the assessment and treatment of problem behavior with individuals diagnosed with autism and severe behavior disorders. She has published 39 peer-reviewed research studies, co-authored book chapters, and worked directly with individuals with developmental disabilities for 20 years. Dr. Kodak is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D) and licensed Behavior Analyst in the state of Wisconsin. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Learning and Motivation.

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Samantha Bergmann, M.A., BCBA

Doctoral Student
E-mail: scmoberg@uwm.edu

Samantha completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2011 with majors in Psychology and Spanish Studies and her master’s degree in Behavior Analysis at Western Michigan University in 2013. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a licensed behavior analyst in the state of Wisconsin, Her interests are in early intervention with children with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities including assessing and teaching prerequisite skills, improving instructional efficiency and treatment fidelity, verbal behavior, and early literacy skills.

Peer-reviewed Publications:

Kodak, T., Campbell, V., Bergmann, S., LeBlanc, B., Kurtz-Nelson, E., Cariveau, T., Haq, S., Zemantic, P., & Mahon, J. (accepted for publication). Assessment-based academic intervention: Examination of efficacious, efficient, and socially valid error- correction procedures for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Recent Presentations:

Bergmann, S., Kodak, T., LeBlanc, B., (2015, October). Effects of Programmed Errors of Omission and Commission during Auditory-Visual Conditional Training with Typically Developing Children. Invited research presentation at the Mid-American Association for Behavior Analysis, Kansas City, MO.

Bergmann, S., Kodak, T., LeBlanc, B., (2015, September). Effects of Programmed Errors of Omission and Commission during Auditory-Visual Conditional Training with Typically Developing Children. Poster session presented at the Minnesota Northland Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Moberg, S., Kodak, T., Campbell, V., Cariveau, T., Mahon, J., Ruppert, T., Rush, K., Kurtz-Nelson, E., (2015, May). Comparing the Efficiency of Error Correction Procedures and Assessing Children’s Preference for Instruction. Symposium presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas.

LeBlanc, B., Kodak, T., Moberg, S., Kammer, J., Haq, S., Zemantic, P., (2015, May). Comparing the Effects of Errors of Commission and Omission on Skill Acquisition. Symposium presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas.

Moberg, S., Kodak, T., Campbell, V., Cariveau, T., Mahon, J., Ruppert, T., Rush, K., Kurtz-Nelson, E., (2015, April). Comparing the Efficiency of Error Correction Procedures and Assessing Children’s Preference for Instruction. Symposium presented at the Association of Graduate Students in Psychology Invited Research Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Moberg, S., Kodak, T., LeBlanc, B., Ayazi, M., Gorgan, E., Liu, Z., (2015, March). An Experimental Analysis of Verbal Behavior: Effects of Auditory Stimuli on Accuracy and Latency to Respond on a Mental Math Task. Poster session presented at the Heartland Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.

Brittany LeBlanc

Doctoral Student
E-mail: leblancb@uwm.edu

Brittany completed her Bachelors Degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2008 with a major in Psychology. Her research interests include (1) young children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, (2) prevention and early intervention, with particular interest in children with autism spectrum disorders, (3) increasing instructional efficiency with children with developmental disabilities, and (4) parent training and video modeling.

Recent Publications:

Kodak, T., Campbell, V., Bergmann, S., LeBlanc, B., Kurtz-Nelson, E., Cariveau, T., Haq, S., Zemantic, P., & Mahon, J. (accepted for publication). Assessment-based academic intervention: Examination of efficacious, efficient, and socially valid error-correction procedures for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Kodak, T., Clements, A., Paden, A. R., LeBlanc, B., Mintz, J., & Toussaint, K. A. (2014). Examination of the relation between an assessment of skills and performance on auditory–visual conditional discriminations for children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of applied behavior analysis.

Kodak, T., Clements, A., & LeBlanc, B. (2013). A rapid assessment of instructional strategies to teach auditory-visual conditional discriminations to children with autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7(6), 801-807.

Recent Presentations:

LeBlanc, B., Kodak, K., Bergmann, S., Zettel, S., & Benitez, B. (2015, October). Teaching Parents to use the Natural Language Paradigm with Video Modeling. Poster presented at the meeting of the Mid-American Association of Behavior Analysis (October, 2015).

Bergmann, S., Kodak, T., & LeBlanc, B. (2015, September). Effects of Programmed Errors of Omission and Commission during Auditory-Visual Conditional Discrimination Training with Typically Developing Children. Poster presented at the meeting of the Minnesota Northland Association for Behavior Analysis (2015, September).

LeBlanc, B., Kodak, T., Moberg, S., Kammer, J., Haq, S., & Zemantic, P. (2015, May). Comparing the Effects of Errors of Commission and Omission on Skill Acquisition. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Antonio, TX.

LeBlanc, B., Campbell, V., Kodak, T., Cariveau, T., & Kurtz-Nelson, E. (2015, March). Comparing the Efficiency of Error Correction Procedures and Children’s Preference for a Particular Procedure. Poster presented at the meeting of the Heartland Association of Behavior Analysis, Omaha, NE. Also presented at the meeting of the Associate of Professional Behavior Analysts, Seattle, WA (2015, March) and at the meeting of the Minnesota Northland Association for Behavior Analysis (2015, September).

Brittany Benitez

Masters Student
E-mail: benitezb@uwm.edu

Ella Gorgan

Masters Student
E-mail: emgorgan@uwm.edu

Sophie Knutson

Masters Student
E-mail: knutso28@uwm.edu