Meet the PBR Lab!
Kendall Rankin
Senior Lab Member
Kendall is currently placed at Therapeutic Pathways as a Behavior Technician working 1:1 with children in a center based program. She has a wide range of research interests, which has influenced her passion about the dissemination of behavior analysis to novel research areas. Some of her interests include: the treatment of pediatric feeding disorders, behavioral medicine, specifically, the dissemination of behavior analysis in the field of obstetrics, parent, caregiver, and teacher training, functional analysis, verbal behavior, and Organizational Behavior Management.
Gaby Chagolla
Senior Lab Member
Gaby is currently employed at Therapeutic Pathways as a Registered Behavior Technician, working 1:1 with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her research interests include treatment of pediatric feeding disorders, parent training, and reduction of problem behaviors.
Melissa Moseman
Senior Lab Member
Laboratory Coordinator
Melissa is employed at Therapeutic Pathways as a Registered Behavior Technician, working 1:1 with children in a center-based program. She has several research interests, including, but not limited to: antecedent- and consequence-based interventions, health-related behavior, pediatric, parent and teacher training, choice-making behavior, verbal behavior, punishment, Organizational Behavior Management, and applying the concept of gamification to skill acquisition and behavior reduction.
Devon Schutt
Junior Lab Member
Devon is currently employed at Therapeutic Pathways as a Registered Behavior Technician, working 1:1 with children diagnosed with autism. She has a wide range of research interests, including pediatric feeding behavior, behavioral intervention of adolescents diagnosed with autism, parent and teacher training, and health-related behavior.
Sydney Salgueiro
Junior Lab Member
Sydney is currently employed at Therapeutic Pathways as a Registered Behavior Technician, working 1:1 with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her research interests include pediatric feeding disorders, parent and teacher training, and the reduction of problem behavior.
Marjorie Lacap
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Angelica Manzo
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Perla Perez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
do you want to be a pbr lab member?
If you are interested in being advised by Dr. Becky Penrod in the M.S. Program in Applied Behavior Analysis at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), you should learn more about the application process via CSUS's Psychology Department's website. If you have questions specific to the lab, current research projects, etc., please contact Dr. Becky Penrod.
If you are an undergraduate student interested in joining the Pediatric Behavior Research Lab as a research assistant, contact Dr. Becky Penrod to set-up an in-person appointment to discuss the experience and associated responsibilities of being a research assistant as well as to ask to sit in on a research lab meeting.