UTSA Department of Educational Psychology

Congrats ABA grads!

Happy last day of classes, Roadrunners!!

Some of our EDP faculty and their families celebrated the upcoming end-of-semester with a pickleball outing 😀

More CONGRATULATIONS are in order for members of our department!! 🥳

The UT San Antonio Graduate School recently recognized:

-Dr. Victor Villarreal (professor in school psychology) as an Outstanding Graduate Advisor of Record- PhD!

-Dr. Leslie Neely (professor in ABA) as an Outstanding Graduate Mentor!

-Kiana Leal (student in ABA) as having an Outstanding Capstone Project!

Please join us in celebrating these accomplishments!

Congrats Dr Lang!

Hot off the presses! Our very own Dr Russell Lang was identified as one of the top 10 publishing faculty members in Kranack et al. (2026). Check it out here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40617-026-01168-y?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article

Check our our awesome ABA faculty member, Dr Leslie Neely.

UTSA AI App Helps Parents Support Kids With Autism Researchers at UT San Antonio are developing an AI powered app designed to help parents raising children with autism strengthen communication skills at home....

Exciting news for future behavior analysts 🎉
We will be hosting an informational session about the UT San Antonio MS in Behavior Analysis program on December 20 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM via zoom.
Register here and get automatic reminders 📲
https://calendly.com/hannah-macnaul/utsa-ms-in-behavior-analysis-program-informational
We look forward to seeing you all there!

Employ210 was recently featured by UTSA Now, and you may see some familiar EDP faces in the video! 😀

Check out employ210.com if you are interested in learning more!

Serving up skills and empowering neurodiverse job seekers Researchers from UT San Antonio have developed a program called "Employ 210" that provides free, hands-on job training for people with autism and other neuro...

Texas residents!! Don’t miss this FREE, completely Virtual Autism Caregiver Training opportunity!
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We are recruiting the next round of families for a telehealth training project at ABA at UTSA. We are conducting 1-on-1 sessions over Zoom with a BCBA for our BehaviorBuddy project.

It’s completely free, based around your schedule, and focuses on teaching emerging vocal skills in the context of play.

Families who are eligible will receive a $50 gift card upon completion of the project. If you are interested, you are welcome to email us or check out www.abautsa.com/BehaviorBuddy for more information.

Congratulations to Dr. Victor Villarreal for a well-deserved award! Dr. Villarreal was recognized by the Texas Association of School Psychologists as the 2025 winner of the Outstanding Service to the Profession of School Psychology Award.

We are all grateful for Dr. Villarreal’s work!

Three members of our School Psychology program presented at the 2025 Whole Child Whole Community Conference today in San Antonio! Dr. Castro-Villarreal, Dr. Hart, and Sarah Huggins, a student in the MA program, led a presentation on how creative and novel training approaches can strengthen collaborations to serve schools.