Val Demiri

 Val Demiri received her doctorate in Clinical and School Psychology from Hofstra University in 2004 and her Board Certification in Behavior Analysis (BCBA) from Rutgers University in 2005.  She has served as an adjunct professor at Endicott College in the Van Loan School of Graduate & Professional Studies since 2012 and is the District- Wide Behavior Specialist at the Hopewell Valley Regional School District in Pennington, N.J.  In addition, she serves as an advisor to doctoral students at Endicott College and supervises other graduate students obtaining their BCBA.  Previously she served as the Assistant Director of Outreach Services at the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers. 

Val has served as a consultant and trainer to various New Jersey school districts and New York City public schools regarding autism and Applied Behavior Analysis.  Val has presented on Applied Behavior Analysis, ethics and autism locally, nationally and internationally. Val is the co-author of the books, Jumpstarting Communication Skills in Children with Autism: A Parent’s Guide to Applied Verbal Behavior: Woodbine House and Tools of the Trade: Easy Data Collection for the Classroom: Different Roads to Learning.