Jessica Slaton

Clinical Director and Director of Applied Research

Jessica has been at NLG since 2004.  She received a Masters in Behavior Education at Simmons in 2006 and a Ph. D. in Behavior Analysis at Western New England in 2016. She is a BCBA and is certified in Special Education. Jessica serves on NLG’s Behavior Council. Jessica has authored and presented numerous symposia at conferences such as APBA, ABAI and BABAT. 

Publications include:

Slaton, J. D., & Hanley, G. P. (2016). Effects of multiple versus chained schedules on stereotypy and functional engagement. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 49, 927 – 946.

Slaton, J. D., Hanley, G. P., & Raftery, K. J. (2017). Interview-informed functional analyses:  A comparison of synthesized and isolated components. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 50, 252 – 277.

Slaton, J. D., & Hanley, G. P. (in press). Practical Functional Assessment of Problem Behavior. In R. Pennington (Ed.) Applied Behavior Analysis, AAPC publishing: Kansas City.

Slaton, J. D., & Hanley, G. P. (in press). Nature and scope of synthesis in functional analysis  of problem behavior: A review. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Slaton, J. D., & Hanley, G. P. (in preparation). A further comparison of synthesized and  isolated contingencies in functional analyses.

Slaton, J. D., Hanley, G. P., Ruppel, K., Gage, E. E., Raftery, K. J., & Clark, K. (in preparation). Treating stereotypy with functional communication training.

Mouzakes, T., Hanley, G. P., & Slaton, J. D. (in preparation). A generalization evaluation of functional communication training and tolerance responses.

Landa, R. L., Hanley, G. P., Ghaemmaghami, M., Slaton, J. D., Hanratty, L. A., Jessel, J., & Rajaraman, A. (in preparation). A review of procedural modifications following undifferentiated interview-informed synthesized contingency analyses.

Warner, C., Hanley, G. P., Ghaemmaghami, M., Landa, R. L., & Slaton, J. D. (in preparation). An evaluation of a progressive extinction to assess response class membership of multiple topographies of problem behavior.

Rajaraman, A., Hanley, G. P., Slaton, J. D., Jessel, J., Beaulieu, L, & Ghaemmaghami, M. (in preparation). On the generality of the interview-informed synthesized contingency analysis.

Rajaraman, A., Hanley, G. P., Gover, H., Landa, R. L., & Slaton, J. D. (in preparation). Toward stronger control in interview-informed synthesized contingency analyses.

Ruppel, K., Hanley, G. P., Slaton, J. D., & Crowley, A. (in preparation). Treating mouthing non-food items with a skill-based treatment.