Cynthia Rheney Johnson, PhD is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½. She also is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She is a licensed psychologist and a board certified behavior analyst – doctoral level. She is a Fellow of Division 33 (Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder) of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Johnson has provided program development, clinical care and clinical supervision for youth with ASD for over 25 years. Additionally, Dr. Johnson has been the principal investigator of numerous multi-site NIH-funded and other federally-funded grants with much of this research focused on treatment development and randomized clinical trials. She was a primary developer of the parent training intervention used in both the Research Unit in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and the Research Unit for Behavior Intervention consortiums. More recent research has focused on feeding and sleep issues in autism.
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