Dr. Fox is Research Director of the Center for Early Childhood Learning and Development, an Accomplished Center of Excellence at East Tennessee State University and is also a Professor, Special Education Program, Department of Human Development and Learning. For the last 11 years he has been the Director of the ETSU �Make a Difference� Project, a Tennessee Department of Education-funded project to provide training and technical assistance to schools and families of children and youth with challenging behaviors. The project emphasizes functional assessment, positive behavior interventions, and school-based approaches to discipline and behavior management. From 1979 to 1989, Dr. Fox was an Assistant Professor of Special Education and a Research Scientist in the Kennedy Center Mental Retardation Research Center at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Dr. Fox received his Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1982, a Master of Arts in psychology from the University of Richmond, and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. His interests include assessment of and intervention on challenging behaviors, social skills training, generality and maintenance of behavior change, the role of setting events in understanding the environmental causes of students� behavioral challenges, and single subject research design. He has worked directly with a variety of populations of children and youth including children with autism, mental retardation, juvenile delinquency, and emotional-behavioral disorders. Dr. Fox has published or co-authored over 50 articles in professional journals and book chapters and he has been director of more than 25 research, personnel preparation, and direct service externally funded projects. Dr. Fox has been a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis since the late 1970�s and has been a frequent presenter.

Dr. John Wheeler is currently Professor of Special Education and Associate Dean, and Director of Doctoral Studies in the College of Education at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. He is in his thirteenth year at TTU and during that time has also been the Principal Investigator and Project Director for the Make a Difference Project, a state funded project providing consultation and technical assistance to regional schools in the area of behavioral intervention. His prior appointment was as Associate Professor and Director of Training at the South Dakota University Affiliated Program ion the School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. During his time there his work involved collaborating on the development of a statewide technical assistance project for children with autism spectrum disorders and their families. Dr. Wheeler began his career as a teacher of students with severe disabilities in the state of Illinois and received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in 1989. He has authored several research and review papers and book chapters, and has presented extensively at national and international meetings on the design and delivery of educational and behavioral interventions for persons with developmental disabilities. Dr. Wheeler has also co-authored two textbooks used for training pre-service teachers and is dedicated to improving the delivery of educational services and supports to children within educational settings through systemic change at the pre-service and in-service levels of professional development. He also serves on numerous editorial boards for professional journals in the field and has served as a consultant to numerous school districts.