Michael P. Brady, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of the Department of Exceptional Student Education. He received the doctorate from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Brady has been active in developing teacher education programs for students with moderate to severe disabilities, and works with several school districts to improve services for students with autism and other severe disabilities. He serves as consulting editor on several professional journals including Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, Teacher Education & Special Education, and Focus on Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities. His professional interests focus on translating and adapting research findings into practice. Recent applications of this involve building training and support teams to implement functional behavioral assessment in local school districts, and the use of family friendly prompting and generalization strategies for school aged children. He is co-author of JOBS: The Job Observation and Behavior Scale, a Work Performance Evaluation for Supported and Entry Level Employees, and JOBS: Opportunity for Self-Determination (JOBS: OSD) (Stoelting), as well as Students with Autism: Characteristics and Instructional Programming (Singular / Wadsworth), and Mental Retardation: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions (Allyn & Bacon).