Rate My Professor Martha Howard

Dr. Howard's research focuses on assessment and evaluation, disability studies, developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, autism, early childhood education, child development, applied behavior analysis, family studies, and developmental neuroscience. She has obtained major grant funding, including roughly $7 million with Dr. Amy Callender from the Tennessee Department of Education for Early Intervention services, and additional awards such as those with Kim Correll. Her grant successes have brought recognition, including the 2021-2022 Wings Up 100 honor for the College of Education and faculty accolades for research funding in 2022. Key publications comprise "Social Validity Assessment: Examples from a Functional Skills Training Intervention" (2020), "QUESTIONING SELVES, QUESTIONING MINDS: U.S. WOMEN'S PERSISTENCE IN DOCTORAL PROGRAMS" (2016), and "“Tell Me More About That”: Meaningful Cohort Relationships in Ph.D. Programs" (2013). Via her roles in academia, program direction, and funded efforts, Dr. Howard advances early childhood special education and regional intervention services.