About Dr. Shahla Alai-Rosales

Dr. Shahla Alai-Rosales is a professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas. She has taught in Texas, Europe and the Middle East on a variety of topics, including ethics, early autism intervention, parent training, behavioral systems, applied research methods, technology transfer, behavior change techniques, and cultural diversity. Shahla has published and presented research on social justice, ethics in early intervention, play and social skills, family harmony, and supervision and mentoring. She has more than four decades of experience working with families and has trained hundreds of behavior analysts — receiving the SGA ‘Fessor Graham Award for teaching, Onassis Scholar Award for her work with families, along with the UNT Community Engagement Award, TXAB.A. Career Contributions Award, the GSU Lutzker Distinguished Lecturer, the AB.A.I Donald M. Baer Distinguished Lecturer, and the 23-24 University of Kansas ABS Outstanding Alumni Award. She was a member of the Behavior Analysis Certification Board, the AB.A.I Practice Board, the AB.A.I DEI Board, APB.A. Board of Directors, the advisory board for ASAI and an associate editor for Behavior Analysis in Practice. Shahla is co-author of Building and Sustaining Meaningful and Effective Relationships as a Supervisor and Mentor (LeBlanc, Sellers and Alai, 2020) and Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism: Between Now and Dreams (Alai-Rosales and Heinkel-Wolfe, 2022).