Katie Huba
Fieldwork Coordinator
Background
Katie serves as a Project Manager and Fieldwork Coordinator, bringing more than 20 years of experience in special education and over 10 years of experience as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).
Throughout her career, she has provided behavior-analytic services to individuals ranging in age from 2 to 60 years across community, educational, and clinical settings. Her professional experience spans direct service, program development, supervision, and systems-level support, with a focus on promoting meaningful outcomes for individuals and organizations.
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) across educational, clinical, and community settings
- Fieldwork coordination and supervision of behavior analytic trainees
- Professional skill development and competency-based training
- Behavior assessment and intervention planning
- Staff training, mentorship, and performance management
- Program development and systems-level implementation
- Interdisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder engagement
- Ethical and evidence-based practice in behavior analysis
- Project management and organizational leadership
- Consultation across diverse populations and age groups (2–60 years)
- Community-based behavioral services and supports
Research Interests
Katie's research focuses on the application of behavior analytic principles to improve educational, vocational, and quality-of-life outcomes for individuals with developmental and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her work explores effective instructional strategies for skill acquisition, outcome measurement in behavioral intervention, and the use of innovative technologies to enhance assessment and service delivery.
Her scholarly interests include vocational and postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities, evidence-based instructional practices, behavioral intervention outcome evaluation, and the development of technology-assisted assessment tools. Katie is particularly interested in translating research into practice by identifying efficient, scalable approaches that support meaningful learning, independence, and participation across educational, community, and clinical settings.
Education
Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis, 2017, Mercyhurst University
Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2011, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Courses Taught
- PS 5127 Fieldwork I
- PS 5297 Fieldwork II
Publications
Huba, K., Belfiore, P.J. Using Flashcards and Descriptive Feedback to Teach Industrial Kitchen Equipment to a Student with Intellectual Disabilities in a Postsecondary Education Program. Behav Analysis Practice 17, 544–552 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-023-00853-6Frazier, T. W., Huba, K., Frazier, A. R., Womack, R. A., & Youngstrom, E. A. (2025, June 19). Maximizing accurate detection of divergence from normative expectation in behavioral intervention outcome assessment. Research in Autism, Article 202646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2025.202646
Frazier, T. W., Busch, R. M., Klaas, P., Lachlan, K., Jeste, S., Kolevzon, A., Loth, E., Harris, J., Speer, L., Pepper, T., Anthony, K., Graglia, J. M., Delagrammatikas, C. G., Bedrosian-Sermone, S., Smith-Hicks, C., Huba, K., Longyear, R., Green-Snyder, L., Shic, F., Sahin, M., Eng, C., Hardan, A. Y., & Uljarevic, M. (2023). Development of webcam-collected and artificial-intelligence-derived social and cognitive performance measures for neurodevelopmental genetic syndromes. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 193(3), e32058. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.c.32058
