Rachel Freeman, PhD, Project Director
Rachel Freeman is the Project Director of the Kansas Institute for Positive Behavior Support, an Associate Research Professor at the Life Span Institute in the University of Kansas (KU), an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Special Education at KU, and is the acting President of the Association for Positive Behavior Support (www.apbs.org). Dr. Freeman works with state, regional, and local PBS teams interested in wide-scale dissemination of PBS within an interagency framework, including facilitation of PBS in districts and schools implementing positive behavioral interventions and supports, as well as in residential, and vocational settings supporting adults with disabilities. Her research interests include interagency statewide planning, organization-wide and school-wide positive behavior support, online instruction and staff development systems related to PBS, and issues related to children and adults with developmental disabilities including self-injury, self-restraint, and biobehavioral assessment. For more information about Rachel Freeman and the projects she directs, please visit www.kipbs.org, www.swpbs.org, and www.pbskansas.org.
