Josh Pritchard PhD
Curriculum vitae

The complete record

Education, appointments, editorial service, teaching, grants, and every publication I can verify — thirty-eight of them, 2006 to 2025. The ninety conference presentations live on their own page. Last updated September 2026.

Degrees

Education

  • PhD, Behavior Analysis — University of Nevada, Reno

    Dissertation: An Investigation into Subjectivity and Implicit Cognitions: Explorations in Dissemination. Chair: Linda J. Hayes, PhD.

  • MS, Applied Behavior Analysis — Florida Institute of Technology

    Thesis: The Effects of Fluency on Retention in Individuals with Mental Retardation.

  • BS, Psychology, cum laude — Florida Institute of Technology

Positions

Founder and operator

  • Founder and operator, Adventure Child Therapy (ACT)Colorado and Oklahoma — 2021 to present
  • Founder, Factari and Factari CoOp2015 to present
  • Founder, Lodestone AcademyOrlando, Florida — 2013 to present
  • Founder and Vice President, Hedgehog PublishersFlorida — 2016 to 2023
  • Founder, JKP Analysts, LLCOrlando, Florida — 2006 to 2019
  • Launched and opened centers, Fit LearningOrlando, Washington DC, Denver, Austin, Kansas City, Bay Area
Positions

Executive and clinical leadership

  • Executive Director, Aspire Early InterventionNew South Wales, Australia — 2022 to 2024
  • President and Partner, Behavior Analyst Mentorship Network2016 to 2018
  • ConsultantState facilities under U.S. Department of Justice review
  • Research ConsultantGreat Plains Autism Spectrum Disorder Treatment Program — 2009
  • Behavior Analytic InternPerson Centered Assessment, Training and Habilitation — 2007 to 2008
  • Psychology ExternSierra Regional Center, Reno, Nevada — 2007 to 2008
  • Behavior AnalystColumbus Organization, Knoxville, Tennessee — 2006 to 2007
  • Interdisciplinary Team LeaderOakwood Community Center (ICF/MR), Somerset, Kentucky — 2005 to 2006
  • Behavior AnalystDevereux Hospitals, Viera Campus, Florida — 2004 to 2006
  • Behavior AnalystFlorida Tech Behavioral Services — 2004 to 2006
  • Behavior TechnicianIntervention Services, Melbourne, Florida — 2003 to 2004
  • Direct Care ProviderDevereux Hospitals, Viera Campus, Florida — 2002 to 2003
Positions

Academic appointments

  • Faculty, University of Central FloridaOrlando, Florida — 2018 to 2022
  • Program Director, Online Master of ArtsSouthern Illinois University, Carbondale — 2017 to 2018
  • Founding Chair, Hybrid MA in Professional Behavior AnalysisBuilt and chaired the program — Florida Institute of Technology, 2012 to 2017
  • Assistant Professor, School of Behavior AnalysisFlorida Institute of Technology — 2012 to 2017
  • InstructorFlorida Institute of Technology — 2010 to 2012
  • Adjunct Instructor, Department of PsychologyUniversity of Houston–Downtown — 2008 to 2010
  • Adjunct Instructor, Department of PsychologyUniversity of Nevada, Reno — 2007 to 2010
  • Graduate Assistant, Graduate SchoolUniversity of Nevada, Reno — 2007 to 2010
  • Co-Instructor, ABA TechFlorida Institute of Technology — 2007 to 2008
  • Instructor, Social SciencesTruckee Meadows Community College — 2009
  • InstructorJordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan — 2008
  • Teaching Assistant, School of PsychologyFlorida Institute of Technology — 2005
  • Research Assistant, School of PsychologyFlorida Institute of Technology — 2004 to 2005
Journals

Editorial service

  • Associate EditorBehavior Analysis in Practice
  • Associate EditorBehavior Analysis: Research & Practice
  • Guest reviewerJournal of Contextual Behavioral Science · The Analysis of Verbal Behavior · The Psychological Record · The Behavior Analyst · Behavior Analysis in Practice · The Journal of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research · Behavior Analyst Today
  • Columnist, “Field Gear”Behavior Analysis in Practice — 2013 to 2015
  • Co-editor, Science in Autism TreatmentAssociation for Science in Autism Treatment, with David Celiberti — 2009 to 2013
Service

Professional service

  • PresidentFlorida Association for Behavior Analysis (FABA) — 2020 to 2021
  • PresidentAssociation for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT)
  • Board of DirectorsAssociation for Science in Autism Treatment — 2008 to 2015
  • PresidentTennessee Association for Behavior Analysis (TABA)
  • President-ElectTennessee Association for Behavior Analysis — 2006 to 2007
  • Member, Supervision Task ForceBehavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB)
  • Representative to the Coalition of Behavioral OrganizationsAssociation for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)
  • Student Representative, Executive CouncilAssociation for Behavior Analysis International — 2008 to 2011
  • Founding Chair, Disseminating Behavior Analysis SIGAssociation for Behavior Analysis International — 2007 to 2011
  • Member, Social Media Task ForceAssociation for Behavior Analysis International — 2017
  • Practice Board and Public Relations Task ForceAssociation for Behavior Analysis International — 2009
  • AdvisorCambridge Center for Behavioral Studies — 2015 to present
  • Chair, Exceptional Student GroupCambridge Center for Behavioral Studies — 2013 to present
  • Chair, Archival CommitteeB. F. Skinner Foundation — 2010 to 2012
  • Behavioral Science Grand JudgeIntel International Science and Engineering Fair — 2009, 2011
Teaching

Courses taught

  • Florida Institute of TechnologyMeasurement and Data Systems · Behavior Analytic Writing · Behavior Analytic Supervision · Foundations, Concepts and Principles of Behavior · Introduction to Organizational Behavior Management · Aquatic Animal Behavior (lab)
  • University of Nevada, RenoEmotions and Motivation
  • University of Houston–DowntownApplied Behavior Analysis I · Applied Behavior Analysis II (web-based)
  • Truckee Meadows Community CollegePsychology 101 · Sociology 101
Funding

Grants funded

  • Faculty Professional Development Grant — $2,500

    Bringing Science-based Teaching Techniques into an Online World.

  • South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs — $312,500

    Award 01-1064-09. $62,500 annually.

  • Wilson Scholarship — $1,333

Honors

Awards

  • Faculty Advisor, Outstanding Graduate StudentFlorida Institute of Technology — 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
  • Nominated, Teaching Excellence AwardFlorida Institute of Technology — 2017
  • Invited SpeakerUniversity of Louisville Congress on Autism — 2009
Books

Edited volumes

  • Wine, B., & Pritchard, J. K. (Eds.). (2018). Organizational Behavior Management: The Essentials. Orlando, FL: Hedgehog Publishers. ISBN 978-0-9995467-1-0.

    Find the book
21 articles

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Pascale, V., Pritchard, J. K., Iovino, F. P. C., Bassani, S., & Wine, B. The effects of a DRO and self-monitoring program on prisoners in an Italian prison. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Advance online publication.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-025-01045-0
  • Rey, C. N., Pritchard, J. K., Wine, B., & Martinez-Diaz, J. SΔp: The missing discriminative stimulus for nonpunishment. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 23(2), 143–149.

    doi:10.1037/bar0000267
  • Dubuque, E. M., Franklin, B., Pritchard, J. K., & Webb, T. Creating an automated health attestation system during the COVID-19 global pandemic using Google’s G Suite. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14(4), 1058–1066.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-020-00545-5
  • Leaf, J. B., Leaf, R., McEachin, J., Bondy, A., Cihon, J. H., Detrich, R., … Pritchard, J., … Streff, T. The importance of professional discourse for the continual advancement of practice standards: The RBT® as a case in point. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(5), 1789–1801.

    doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04631-z
  • Wine, B., & Pritchard, J. K. Issues with private practice. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 40(3–4), 170–185.

    doi:10.1080/01608061.2020.1810844
  • Pandey, P., Prathosh, A. P., Kohli, M., & Pritchard, J. Guided weak supervision for action recognition with scarce data to assess skills of children with autism. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(1), 463–470.

    doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5383
  • Li, A., Gravina, N., Pritchard, J. K., & Poling, A. The gender pay gap for behavior analysis faculty. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12(4), 743–746.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-019-00347-4
  • Griffin, M., Gravina, N. E., Matey, N., Pritchard, J., & Wine, B. Using scorecards and a lottery to improve the performance of behavior technicians in two autism treatment clinics. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 39(3–4), 280–292.

    doi:10.1080/01608061.2019.1632241
  • Chancey, C., Weihl, C., Root, W. B., Rehfeldt, R. A., McCauley, D., Takeguchi, K., & Pritchard, J. The impact of mindfulness skills on interactions between direct care staff and adults with developmental disabilities. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 160–169.

    doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.07.004
  • Li, A., Curiel, H., Pritchard, J., & Poling, A. Participation of women in behavior analysis research: Some recent and relevant data. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 11(2), 160–164.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-018-0211-6
  • Brewer, A., Li, A., Leon, Y., Pritchard, J., Turner, L., & Richman, D. Toward a better basic understanding of operant-respondent interactions: Translational research on phobias. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 18(4), 328–332.

    doi:10.1037/bar0000112
  • Tyner, S., Brewer, A., Helman, M., Leon, Y., Pritchard, J., & Schlund, M. Nice doggie! Contact desensitization plus reinforcement decreases dog phobias for children with autism. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9(1), 54–57.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-016-0113-4
  • Pritchard, J. K., & Wine, B. Icing on the cake: The role of research in practitioner training. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 8(2), 140–141.

    doi:10.1007/s40617-015-0074-z
  • Sheyab, M., Pritchard, J., & Malady, M. An extension of the effects of praising positive qualifying autoclitics on the frequency of reading. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30(2), 141–147.

    doi:10.1007/s40616-014-0017-8
  • Pritchard, J., & Zurn, J. B. Use of RFID tags to capture dynamic behavior of individual and groups of small fish. The FASEB Journal, 26(1 suppl.), 1042.14.

    doi:10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.1042.14
  • Washio, Y., Hayes, L. J., Hunter, K. W., & Pritchard, J. K. Backward conditioning of tumor necrosis factor-α in a single trial: Changing intervals between exposures to lipopolysaccharide and saccharin taste. Physiology & Behavior, 102(2), 239–244.

    doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.11.010
  • Pritchard, J. Virtual rewards for driving green. The Behavior Analyst, 33(2), 185–187.

    doi:10.1007/BF03392216
  • Hayes, L. J., Dubuque, E. M., Fryling, M. J., & Pritchard, J. K. A behavioral systems analysis of behavior analysis as a scientific system. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 29(3–4), 315–332.

    doi:10.1080/01608060903092169
  • Pritchard, J. K. A decade later: Creating single-subject design graphs with Microsoft Excel 2007. The Behavior Analyst Today, 9, 153–161.

    doi:10.1037/h0100655
  • Hassert, D. L., Kelly, A. N., Pritchard, J. K., & Cautilli, J. D. The licensing of behavior analysts: Protecting the profession and the public. Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 5(2), 8–19.

    doi:10.1037/h0100415
  • Wilder, D. A., Chen, L., Atwell, J., Pritchard, J., & Weinstein, P. Brief functional analysis and treatment of tantrums associated with transitions in preschool children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 39(1), 103–107.

    doi:10.1901/jaba.2006.66-04
11 chapters

Book chapters and encyclopedia entries

  • Wine, B., & Pritchard, J. K. Issues with private practice. In D. A. Johnson & C. M. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Performance, Vol. II: Foundations and Advances (Ch. 13, pp. 290–305). Routledge.

    doi:10.4324/9781032708331-14
  • Pritchard, J., & Wine, B. Feedback in graduate education. In A. Brewer, M. Elcoro, & A. Lippincott (Eds.), Behavioral Pedagogies and Online Learning. Hedgehog Publishers.

  • Pritchard, J. Response cost. In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (2nd ed., pp. 3947–3948). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91280-6_1308
  • Pritchard, J., & Malady, M. Error correction. In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (2nd ed., pp. 1842–1843). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91280-6_1292
  • Pritchard, J., & Ross, A. Stimulus. In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (2nd ed., pp. 4637–4638). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91280-6_1310
  • Pritchard, J. K., & Wine, B. Ethical considerations in organizational behavior management. In B. Wine & J. K. Pritchard (Eds.), Organizational Behavior Management: The Essentials (pp. 320–339). Orlando, FL: Hedgehog Publishers.

  • Pritchard, J. Response cost. In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (1st ed., pp. 2573–2574). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1308
  • Pritchard, J., & Malady, M. Error correction. In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (1st ed., pp. 1158–1159). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1292
  • Pritchard, J., & Ross, A. Stimulus. In Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders (1st ed., pp. 3006–3007). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1310
  • Pritchard, J., & Chong, I. Aversive stimulus. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development (p. 190). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_265
  • Pritchard, J., & Chong, I. Radical behaviorism. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development (pp. 1210–1211). Springer.

    doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_2332
Reviews

Product and software reviews

Other

Other writing

  • Gokey, K., & Pritchard, J. Profile: Dennis Embry and the good behavior game. Operants (B. F. Skinner Foundation), Quarter II, 36–38.

90 talks

Presentations

Ninety papers, posters, panels, workshops and invited addresses between 2007 and 2017 — most at ABAI conventions, many co-presented with the graduate students I was chairing. Read the complete list →

  • 2016–20178 — invited addresses on entrepreneurship and ethics; stimulus equivalence workshops
  • 2013–201520 — interteaching, dissemination and the ABAI Education Conference
  • 2011–201239 — the Theory & Philosophy and Sustainability conferences, and the Jordan program
  • 2007–201023 — licensure, dissemination, the B. F. Skinner Foundation and online instruction
Media

Interviews and invited appearances

Service

University and community service

  • South-Eastern Accreditation Compliance CommitteeSchool of Behavior Analysis representative, Florida Institute of Technology — 2012 to 2017
  • Chair, Information Technology CommitteeCollege of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology — 2011
  • University Assessment CommitteeFlorida Institute of Technology — 2011
  • Practicum Training Committee and Learning Management Selection CommitteeBehavior Analysis Program, University of Nevada, Reno — 2009
  • Rotary InternationalCollege Park, Orlando (2012 to present) · Baldwin Park, Orlando (2010 to 2012) · Reno South (2008 to 2010)
  • Board of DirectorsDirect Support Professional Association of Tennessee — 2006 to 2007
  • MemberKnoxville Coalition to End Chronic Homelessness · Optimist Club of Knoxville — 2006 to 2007
Memberships

Professional associations

Association for Behavior Analysis International · Association for Science in Autism Treatment · Association of Professional Behavior Analysts · American Psychological Association · Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies · California, Nevada and Tennessee Associations for Behavior Analysis · Dissemination of Behavior Analysis SIG · Practice Issues in Behavior Analysis SIG · Behaviorists for Social Responsibility SIG · Psi Chi