V. Mark Durand is known worldwide as an authority in the area of autism and developmental disabilities and is currently the founding Dean of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Durand is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He has administered more than $4 million in federal research and training grants in the areas of functional communication, assistive technology, home-school training, and improving the problem behaviors of children and adults with autism and other severe disabilities. He started his career at the University at Albany, SUNY wher...