Preferred Mailing Address |
Sheryl A. Larson, Ph.D.
Institute on Community Integration, U of MN
214B Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455 |
Education |
University of Minnesota College of Education, July 1997:
- Ph.D. in Educational Psychology.
- Advisor: Robert H. Bruininks, Ph.D.
- Dissertation title: A Longitudinal Study of turnover among newly hired residential direct service staff members in small community settings serving people with developmental disabilities.
University of Minnesota College of Education, May 1989:
- Master of Arts in Educational Psychology.
- Advisor, Susan Rose, Ph.D.
- Specialization - Special education and augmentative communication for learners with moderate to profound developmental disabilities.
- Plan B paper title: Assessment of adaptive and problem behaviors for adults with developmental disabilities in vocational settings.
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, May 1985
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Elementary Education.
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Interest in developmental disabilities |
Sherri has 22 years of experience in services to persons with ID/DD as a behavior analyst, program evaluator, consultant, personal advocate and researcher. She has been a personal advocate for a man with intellectual disabilities since 1997. |
Experience in developmental disabilities |
Sherri is the Research Director and a Principal Investigator at the Research and Training Center on Community Living (Institute on Community Integration, U of MN) where she has worked for the last 15 years, directing projects involving survey and intervention research, secondary analysis of large data sets and research synthesis on residential services, personnel issues, disability statistics and community integration for persons with ID/DD and has (co)authored 78 publications on those topics.
She has made over 100 presentations at national, state, regional and local conferences and workshops. She is an AAMR Fellow, President-Elect of the national AAMR Community Services Division, a consulting editor of Mental Retardation and Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability and has participated in NIDRR and CDC grant review panels.
She received a Presidential Award from AAMR for workforce research. She served six years on the Ramsey County Board's Developmental Disabilities Advisory Committee (3 years as Chair), and six years on the advisory board of an ICF-MR. She also serves on the Board of Directors of No Place Like Home Communities, a provider of supportive housing for adults with disabilities. |
