Dr. Garry Martin
Professor Emeritus
Psychology
Canada
Biography
Since receiving my Ph.D., I have been teaching in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. My applied activities have been largely devoted to developmental disabilities and sport psychology. I have served as staff training and programming consultant to numerous treatment facilities for persons with developmental disabilities and/or autism in several provinces in Canada, several states in the U.S.A., and in Brazil and Peru. I have also served as sport psychology consultant for numerous athletes in several sports, and provided a sport psychology program for the Manitoba Provincial Figure Skating team for a number of years. I�ve served on the editorial board of seven psychology journals and was a member of the Behavioral Science Committee of the Medical Research Council of Canada for a cumulative total of 13 years (4 years as Chairperson).
Research Interest
My recent research in autism has focused largely on training instructors and parents to conduct discrete-trials teaching sessions with children with autism. Recent references include:
Publications
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Jeanson, B., Thiessen, C., Thomson, K., Vermeulen, R., Martin, G. L., & Yu, C. T. (2010). Field testing of the discrete-trials teaching evaluation form. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4, 718-723.
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Martin, G. L., Thorsteinsson, J. R., Yu, C. T., Martin, T. L., & Vause, T. (2008). The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities Test for predicting learning of persons with intellectual disabilities. Behavior Modification, 32, 228-247.
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Vause, T., Yu, C. T., & Martin, G. L. (2007). The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities Test for persons with intellectual disability: A valuable clinical tool. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20, 483-489.
