March 21, 2005
Jim Powers, Director of Admissions for Bancroft Neuroheath, Haddonfield, NJ

March 17 & 18, 2005
Dr. Brian Iwata, Professor, University of Florida, Psychology Department/ Director of the Florida Center on Self-Injury.

March 2, 2005
Commissioner Kathleen M. O’Toole, Police Commissioner for the City of Boston Police Department.

March 2, 2005
Senator Edward Augustus, State Senator from the Second Worcester District, and Vice-Chair of the Education Committee.

February 8, 2005
Dr. James Hoko, Assistant Director of the ACES Behavior Support Center, a Regional Service Center serving south central Connecticut.

January 20 & 21, 2005
Dr. Brian Iwata, Professor, University of Florida, Psychology Department/ Director of the Florida Center on Self-Injury.

December 15, 2004
Dr. Philip Hineline, Professor, Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

June 28 – July 2, 2004
Christola Georgiou, Coordinator of Special Education for the Ministry of Education of Cyprus. Her visit was sponsored by the Cyprus-America Scholarship Program, in an effort to promote a better understanding of autistic children.

June 16, 2004
Christine Asbury, Chief Executive, and 3 teaching staff of the TreeHouse Trust in London, UK. TreeHouse Trust provides education to children with autism in the London area.

June 6 – July 2, 2004
Dr. Cath Sumpter, Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

June 3 & 4, 2004
Professor Paolo Moderato and 20 graduate students from the Department of Psychology, University of Parma, Italy.

May 25 & 26, 2004
Mary Gebert, educator from Australia working in the autism field focused on outreach and program support in early intervention.

May 24 & 25, 2004
Sigrun Kristjansdottir, Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Iceland Young Autism Project, and 4 special education teachers from the State Diagnostic and Counseling Center, Kopavogur, Iceland.

March 2, 2004
U.S. Representative James McGovern, Congressman from the MA 3rd Congressional District and member of the National Coalition for Autism Research & Education.

February 2, 2004
Dwight Harshbarger, PhD., Chief Executive Officer & Founder of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, Concord, MA.

January 29-30, 2004
Dr. Brian Iwata, Professor, University of Florida, Psychology Department/ Director of the Florida Center on Self-Injury.

January 26, 2004
Michael Broglioli, Executive Director of the Autism Coalition, a group dedicated to raising funds and distributing grants in support of autism research and education programs. Based in Port Chester, NY., the Autism Coalition recently awarded NECC a $25,000 grant to support our curriculum database project. Read more here.

January 20, 2004
Dr. Kathleen Dyer, BCBA and Clinical Supervisor at the River Street School Autism Program in Windsor, CT.

January 7, 2004
Gretchen Shuman, MEd, Family Coordinator, and Mary Beth Kadlec, Sc.D., Research Project Manager, from the STAART Project, Boston University. Supported by a grant from NIMH, this STAART Project focuses on the central theme of social and affective processes in autism.

January 5 –30, 2004
Professor Maria Amalia Andery, of the School of Psychology at Catholic University, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Professor Andery spent a month observing all of the different programs at NECC, as well as meeting with various specialists to discuss aspects of the applied research being conducted at NECC.

January 5-16, 2004
Kate Wood, Fay Blyth, and Briony Vallis, 3 teachers from The Treehouse School in London spent 2 weeks observing and training with staff from the NECC Day Program.

November 10, 2003
Dr. Gina Green, former director of research at NECC, currently an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Behavior Analysis, University of North Texas.

November 6, 2003
Dean David Paris of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Dean Paris is the Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Hamilton College offers a Cooperative Learning Program with NECC where Hamilton College students interested in applied psychology and education of students with special needs have the opportunity to spend either the Fall or Spring Semester working at NECC for full academic credit.

October 20, 2003
Patriccia de Oliveira Lima Muniz, Director of the Clinica Especial Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil

October 21, 2003
Dr. Nipun Kashyap, Pediatric Neurologist from Indapoastha Apollp Hospital, New Delhi, India.

October 14, 2003
NECC hosted an informational afternoon for 30 pediatric specialists from the Developmental Medicine Center at Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, and Dr. Mriganka Sur and Dr. Pawan Sinha, two researchers from the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

September 11-12, 2003
Dr. Brian Iwata, Professor, University of Florida, Psychology Department/ Director of the Florida Center on Self-Injury.

September 12-15, 2003
Maria Serrajordia Rocha de Mello, Associacao dos so Autista, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

August 6, 2003
Barbara Dee, Special Education Director, Portland Public Schools, Portland ME.

July 30-31, 2003
Dr. Richard Foxx, Professor of Psychology, Portland Public Schools, Portland ME.

July 20-August 9, 2003
Dr. Murray Sidman, Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University.

July 8-10, 2003
Dan Palmer, Monash University, Melbourne Australia.

July 7, 2003
Maria Malott, PhD, Executive Director, Association for Behavior Intervention, Kalamazoo, MI.

June 24, 2003
Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers.

June 10, 2003
Julia Seedsman, Autism Behavioural Intervention Association, Melbourne, Australia.

May 12, 2003
Russell Blackwood, Professor of Philosophy, Jonathan Vaughn, Professor of Psychology, Tara McKee, Professor of Psychology. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.

May 5-9, 2003
Victoria Stewart, parent, Sydney, Australia.