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Academics
Fall Open House
Join us for one of our Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Fall Open House
Join us for one of our Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Fall Open House
Join us for one of our Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Joelle Fingerhut
Assistant Professor of Education
Bio
Joelle Fingerhut has taught children with disabilities in a variety of roles, including as a literacy interventionist, behavior therapist, case manager, and teacher, and in various states across the U.S. as well as in the Middle East. She has experience teaching special education teacher preparation courses and supervising teacher candidates in their teaching placements. Before joining Marist, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers University, where she provided professional development on evidence-based behavioral interventions to teaching assistants and teachers throughout New Jersey. Dr. Fingerhut has presented her research at national and international conferences and has published in journals such as Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities and Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. In her free time, Dr. Fingerhut enjoys running, playing board games, reading, and photography.
Education
PhD, Educational Psychology and Methodology, University at Albany (SUNY)
MSEd, Special Education, Simmons University
BA, Psychology/English, Ithaca College
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Single-case design, evidence-based practices, teacher preparation, autism, culture and special education
Selected Publications
Fingerhut, J., Reddy, L., Lekwa, A., & Dudek, C. (2024). Implementation of paraprofessional behavior support coaching: A study of behavior concerns and interventions used in elementary schools. Psychology in the Schools, 61(9), 3840-3854. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.23256
Fingerhut, J., Moeyaert, M., Manolov, R., Xu, X., & Park, K.H. (2023). Systematic review of single-case quantitative analysis techniques. Behavior Modification, 47(5), 1115–1143. https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455231178469
Fingerhut, J., Reddy, L., Dudek, C., Bronstein, B., & Elliott, A. (2023). Classroom paraprofessional and teachers serving students with disruptive behaviors: A study of professional relationships. Exceptionality, 32(1), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09362835.2023.2271588
Fingerhut, J., & Moeyaert, M. (2022). Selecting and justifying quantitative analysis techniques in single-case research through a user-friendly open-source tool. Frontiers in Education, 7, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1064807
Fingerhut, J., & Moeyaert, M. (2022). Training individuals to implement discrete trials with fidelity: A meta-analysis. Focus on Autism and other Developmental Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1177/10883576221081076
