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Dr. Lori Chamberlain is an assistant professor as teaching faculty at The Chicago school in DC. Before coming to The Chicago School, she was an educational consultant at Pennsylvania training and technical assistance network which is the staff training arm of the Bureau of Special Education in the state for 20 years. She worked in public schools across the state training staff in evidence-based strategies grounded in behavior analysis. Dr. Chamberlain earned her PhD in Behavior analysis at the Chicago school with a focus on verbal behavior and operant emergence, earned a Master's in counseling/social work in Texas and a Bachelor's in elementary education in Oklahoma.

Dr. Chamberlain's applied work has focused primarily in the field of special education and training educators, caregivers and related service providers in providing language instruction (specifically verbal behavior), using Precision Teaching, Direct Instruction curricula and methods, and social skill instruction as well as behavior reduction techniques and Functional Behavior assessments. Dr. Chamberlain's primary research interests include verbal behavior, precision teaching, and the analysis of complex language skills and problem solving from a behavioral perspective.