Deanna Swain

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Deanna Swain is currently completing her first year of a 2-year post-doctoral psychology fellowship. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Virginia Tech under the direction of Dr. Angela Scarpa and her clinical internship at Children's Hospital of Colorado, with a focus in Developmental Pediatrics. Her primary research interests include parenting stress and its impact on parent-mediated interventions as well as a multi-method approach to measuring emotion regulation in parents and children with ASD. Dr. Swain has received specialized training in several Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBIs), including the Early Start Denver Model, and she is an interventionist in the NYS Early Intervention classroom at the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain. Currently, Dr. Swain conducts research related to parent-mediated interventions through a small randomized control trial in the Early Intervention classroom and she is also involved in a NIMH-funded project aimed at examining the mechanisms in parent-mediated interventions for toddlers with ASD.

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