Savana Bak, MS, PhD

Associate professor
Special education program
Department of Educational Psychology

If I were an intervention, which one would I be?

Self-monitoring

Research Interests:

Multimodal communication
Cultural/international adaptations of language and social communication interventions
Evidence-based practices and how we define them
Open-access caregiver training for under-resourced caregivers
Autism research for under-represented communities

Planned, Current, and Completed Projects:

Planned: Mindfulness intervention for caregivers and minimally-verbal autistic children (PI)
Current: Online training module for caregivers of autistic children (PI)
Current: Interaction analysis of caregiver/children dyads in family settings (PI)
Completed: Vocalization of autistic children in school environments (PI)
Completed: Neurodivergent adults' perceptions towards early intervention (Co PI)
Completed: Focus group analysis of caregiver attitudes towards caregiver training (Co PI)

Graduate Advisees: