Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral
Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Sandhya Rajagopal, PhD, BCBA-D, earned her master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Organizational Behavior Management (OBM), and her doctorate in Behavior Analysis from Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. Rajagopal has provided ABA therapy to children on the autism spectrum since 2013 and has conducted behavior analytic research with older adults with dementia, staff in human service settings, and children on the spectrum. She completed her postdoctoral residency in the Children’s Multidisciplinary Feeding Program at Marcus Autism Center. She has since worked as a case manager in the Feeding-focused ABA Intensive program within the multidisciplinary feeding program, working to establish a half-day, manualized, caregiver-mediated intervention for children on the spectrum with mild to moderate food selectivity. In her current position, she provides behavioral intervention in the Day Treatment and Feeding-focused ABA Outpatient programs.
Publications
Rey, C., Nicholson, K., Rajagopal, S., & O’Neill, P. (2024). Overview of behavior analytic teaching strategies. In J. L. Matson (Ed.), Handbook of Psychopathology in Intellectual Disability, Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (pp. 315–341). Springer, Cham. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66902-6_15
Noto, J., Nicholson, K., Rajagopal, S., Riswick-Estelle, J., Weatherly, N. L., & Rey, C. N. (2024). Behavioral skills training for active shooter scenarios among human service staff. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2024.2351447
Rajagopal, S., Carlos, D., Gokey, K., Trahan, M. A., Hannula, C., & Harvey, C. (2022). Increasing conversations between older adults with dementia using textual stimuli. Behavior Analysis in Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-022-00697-6
Rajagopal, S., Nicholson, K., Putri, T. R., Addington, J., & Felde, A. (2021). Teaching children with autism to tact private events based on public accompaniments. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 54(1), 270-286. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.785
Matey, N., Gravina, N., Rajagopal, S., & Betz, A. (2019). Effects of feedback delivery requirements on accuracy of observations. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 39(3-4), 247-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2019.1666773
Jimenez-Gomez, C., Rajagopal, S., Nastri, R., & Chong, I. (2019). Matrix training for expanding the communication of toddlers and preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12(2), 375-386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-019-00346-5
