Ann M. Mastergeorge, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Education Psychologist /Adjunct Faculty, Department of Human and Community Development, Division of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
2825 50th Street
Sacramento, CA 95817
E-mail:  ammastergeorge@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Mastergeorge is a cultural-developmental and educational psychologist who also holds a clinical license in speech and language pathology. She joined the UC Davis faculty in 2002, moving from UCLA where she directed longitudinal evaluations of school reforms, developed accommodations for students with disabilities, and designed case studies and ethnographic studies of students in collaborative learning environments. Her research interests include understanding the culture of families with disabilities, issues in treatment efficacy, models for guiding learning and apprenticeships, and implications of school reform in learning environments. More recent research interests include studies of the ontogeny of joint attention in longitudinal studies of typical and autism at-risk populations.

Mastergeorge A, Rogers S, Corbett B, Solomon M. Nonmedical Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders.  In Ozonoff S, Rogers SJ, Hendren RL (Eds.). Autism Spectrum Disorders:  A Research Review for Practitioners, pp. 130-160, 2003.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Webb N, Mastergeorge A.  Promoting Effective Helping Behavior in Peer-Directed Groups.  International Journal of Educational Research (39), 73-97, 2003.

Families in Early Intervention:  Principles, Paradigms, Practices.  Summer Institute on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Sacramento, CA, August 2003.

How Should We Individualize Interventions for Children with Autism?  Summer Institute on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Sacramento, CA, August 2003.

The Construction of Identity in Clinical Discourse.  Symposium presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2003.

Re-Defining School Culture:  Creating Contexts for Learning Environments in Classrooms. American Educational Research Association Symposium:  Learning Environments and Educational Reform:  Analytical Tools and Design Imperatives, San Diego, CA, April 2004.

Identifying Indicators for Autism Risk:  Developmental Trajectories in Joint Attention.   International Meeting of Autism Research, Sacramento, CA, May 2004
Diagnostic Discourse in Clinical Interactions.  Language and Social Interaction Conference, Whispering Pines Conference Center, Providence, RI, May 2004.

Joint Attention and Indicators of Autism.  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, May 2004.

Autism and Joint Attention:  Emerging Discourse in Mother-Child Dyads.  Presented at Autism and Social Interaction Symposium, Applied International Linguistics Association, Madison, WI, July 2004.

Principal Investigator:  Joint Attention in Infants:  A Longitudinal Study.  M.I.N.D. Institute Pilot Grant, $19,000, 2004-05. The major goal of this project is to determine the ontogenesis of joint attention in infants and to delineate strategies for intervention in infants at risk.

Co-Principal Investigator:  Effects of Environments on Infants’ Social and Cognitive Development. 09/01/03-06/30/05.    The major goal of this project is to examine mother-child interactions, the development of problem-solving skills and the outcomes of these processes on cognition and social development.

Co-Investigator (PI: Ozonoff): Infants at risk of autism: A longitudinal study, NIMH, 2003-08, $305,000 annual direct. This grant looks for early markers of autism and the broader autism phenotype in infant relatives of children with autism, developmental delay, and typical development.

Co-Investigator:  First Five/School Readiness:  Infant Family Mental Health Initiative. First Five Commission, 09/01/04-06/30/05, $225,000.  The goal of this project is to describe exemplary and evidence-based practices of early intervention services (0-3) to eight counties in California.

Co-chair of Admissions Committee in Human Development and Family Studies
Member of the Executive Committee in Human and Community Development
Member of the Steering Committee for the CCFS/Early Childhood Laboratory
ANR Family Studies Workgroup Member
First Five School Readiness Special Needs Project Workgroup
Human Development and Family Studies Graduate Group Member
School of Education Graduate Group Member
Board Member of TAP The Autism Perspective
Collaborator on Prop 10/First Five St. Hope Preschool Initiative