Dr. Jena Randolph is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri in the Special Education Department and the Director of Online Graduate programs. Prior to this she served as the Director of Training and Education at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment.  She has over 25 years of experience working with individuals with autism throughout the lifespan across home, clinical and school settings. Her experience has a focus on neurodiversity, collaborative and coordinated care, emergent communication development, and supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices in schools.

Areas of Expertise

• Identifying individual characteristics associated with response to intervention
• Maximizing the duration of fidelity of implementation of interventions post-training
• Effective teacher training