Emily Bisen-Hersh, B.A.

Email: emily.bisen-hersh@temple.edu

Bio:  Emily is in her third year of graduate studies.  She received her B.A. in psychology, with a concentration in Biopsychology, from The College of New Jersey.  Emily works with Dr. Philip N. Hineline and the Temple University Communicative Repertoires in Autism Research Team, which currently focuses on behavioral interventions for young children with autism.  Emily also works with Dr. Ellen Walker in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and is studying animal models of learning and memory disruption resulting from chemotherapeutic treatment.  She is currently developing a model to examine such long-term deficits in childhood cancer survivors. 

Representative presentations and/or publications:  

Bisen-Hersh, E., & Swope, B. (2010, May). For Which Children, Which Approach?  Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, San Antonio, TX. 

Bisen-Hersh, E., Dodge, J., Swope, B., Peters, C., Tincani, M., & Hineline, P. (2009, May).  Identifying relationships between curricular profiles and assessment outcomes. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Phoenix, AZ. 

Wade, J., Bisen-Hersh, E., & Hineline, P. (2008, May).  Staff members’ say-do correspondence in autism support classrooms: Verbally stated expertise vs. procedural competence.  Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL.