Qichao (Zoe) Pan, MA, BCBA

PhD students, Special Education Program, Department of Educational Psychology

LEND Fellow – Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities

Portrait by WTY, age 11

Personal quote of the year

If you want to go fast, go alone; If you want to go far, go together. (African Proverb)

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

Peer-based instruction and intervention 

Research Interests

  • Language and communication interventions for children with autism from culturally and linguistically diverse families
  • Evidence-based behavioral analysis for children with developmental disabilities
  • Parent training for families with children with developmental disabilities
  • Peer/sibling-mediated social communication interventions for children with autism

Current Projects

  • Sibling-mediated play intervention for minimally-verbal autistic children
  • Early Language development of siblings of autistic children
  • Chinese caregivers’ perceptions and experiences of behavioral intervention for autistic children
  • Social validity measure in behavioral-focused journals

Publications

  • Pan, Q., Bak, M. Y. S., Johnson, L. D., Bell, L. S., & Dumas, N. G. (2023). Siblings and social interaction development of individuals with ASD: A systematic review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 109, 102280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102280
  • Hu, X., Lee, G. T., Pan, Q., Gilic, L., & Zeng, S. (2023). Effects of foreign mand training on the emergence of foreign tact and listener responses for Chinese‐speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. Behavioral Interventions, 38(2), 437-455. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.1930
  • Bak, M. Y. S., Reilly, A. M., Yang, Y., Abas, H., Pan, Q. & Hugh M. (2022). Familiarity of evidence based practices in Chinese caregivers of autistic children. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2022.2142374
  • Zeng, S., Zhao, H., Hu, X., Pereira, B. A., Pan, Q., Meng, C., Reyes, A., & Stone-MacDonald, A. (2022). Systematic review of single case design meta-analyses for school-age students with autism spectrum disorders: Current trend and future direction. Psychology in the Schools, 59(5), 980-1000. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22599

Presentations

  • Pan, Q., Bak, M. Y. S., Johnson, L., Bell, L., &  Dumas, N. (2023). Social interaction development of autistic individuals and siblings: A systematic review. International Society for Autism Research conference. Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Pan, Q., Reilly, A. M., Bak, M. Y. S. (2023). Social validity trends in applied behavior analysis journals: An update. Association for Behavioral Analysis International 49th Annual Convention. Denver, CO.
  • Pan, Q., Bak, M. Y. S., Johnson, L., Bell, L., &  Dumas, N. (2023). (People’s Choice Awards – Most Accessible to a Layperson) Social Interaction Development of Autistic Individuals and Siblings: A Systematic Review. College of Education and Human Development Research Day, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Dueñas, A. D., Bak, M. Y. S., Reilly, A. M., Pan, Q., D’Agostino, S., Kunze, M., & Bell, L. (2023). Designing autism evidence-based practice modules for caregivers: Focus group analysis. International Society for Autism Research conference. Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Bak, M. Y. S., Dueñas, A. D., Reilly, A. M., Abas, H., & Pan, Q. (2022) Diversity representation in evidence-based practices for social communication. International Society for Autism Research conference. Austin, TX.
  •  Chaxiong, P., Bak, M. Y. S., Michael, B., Reilly, A. M., Worthley, E., Pan, Q. & Wolff, J. (2022) Public perceptions of ABA: A preliminary examination of public Facebook pages. International Society for Autism Research conference. Austin, TX.
  • Reilly, A. M., Bak, M. Y. S., Abas, H., Johnson, L. D., Pan, Q., & Xin, S. (2022). Translating evidence-based research to practical interventions for students with autism. Council of Exceptional Children Conference. Orlando, FL.
  • Pan, Q. (2020). Examining the effects of group-based mand training to teach foreign-language in children with autism. Association for Behavioral Analysis International Autism Conference. Miami, FL.