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Dr. Priscilla Burnham Riosa is an Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Applied Disability Studies at Brock University. With over 20 years of experience in the disability field, she is a Doctoral-level Board Certified Behaviour Analyst focused on improving the well-being and quality of life of individuals with disabilities and their families across the lifespan. Dr. Riosa earned her PhD in Human Development from the University of Guelph and an MSc in Developmental Psychology from Western University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at York University, where she conducted clinical research in mental health and autism. Her research interests include therapeutic rapport, parent-child relationships, family experiences of disability, and mindfulness-based approaches, as well as strengths-focused and community-engaged participatory action research. She currently supervises students in their graduate studies, with various past students in her lab contributing to the field of applied disability studies.
This entry applies to the general Graduate Studies standard for departments such as English Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, and Sociology.