About me
Virginia L. Walker, PhD, BCBA-D, is a professor in the Department of Special Education and Child Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Walker began her career as a special education teacher of students with extensive support needs in Atlanta, Georgia before attending the University of Virginia where she worked on several federally funded grants involving research in the area of multi-tiered models of positive behavioral interventions and support and teacher preparation in the area of students with extensive support needs. Building upon this work, Dr. Walker’s line of research has focused on three general themes: positive behavioral interventions and supports for students with extensive support needs, supports planning to enhance the inclusion of students with extensive support needs, and effective training practices for school staff supporting students with extensive support needs. Dr. Walker currently serves on the editorial boards of Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Inclusive Practices, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities. She also serves as Vice President of the TASH Board of Directors and Co-chair of the TASH Research and Publications Committee.
