Early Social-Emotional Development: Your Guide to Promoting Children's Positive Behavior Paperback -

Dr. Nicole Megan Edwards is currently an Associate Professor of Special Education at Rowan University and previously worked at Georgia State University as Associate Director of a statewide early intervention professional development initiative. She began her career as a center-based and home-based early intervention provider in New York City, working with infants and toddlers with special needs and their families. She earned her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Special Education from New York University and Ph.D. in Special Education from University of Maryland, College Park and became a university faculty member in 2013. Dr. Edwards teaches several courses, including Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports.

She is a member of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) and Teacher Education Division (TED) of the Council for Exceptional Children, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Zero to Three, and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is an annual conference proposal reviewer for DEC and AERA, reviews for Early Education and Development and Journal of Early Intervention, serves on the editorial board for TEACHING Exceptional Children, serves as co-leader of the Division for Early Childhood's Early Intervention Special Interest Group, and disseminates research at professional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Edwards' research interests include improving access to and quality of early intervention early childhood/ early childhood special education (across birth-five settings), family-provider collaboration and capacity building, the perceived role of caregivers and providers in early emotional development, and roadblocks to implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. She lives with her husband and two sons in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Susanne Denham is an applied developmental psychologist with particular expertise in the social and emotional development of children; she received her doctorate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Dr. Denham has used 11 years of hands-on experience as a school psychologist to aid her research, which focuses on the role of emotional competence in children's social and academic functioning, its assessment, and the role that parents and teachers play in fostering it. She has been funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (in partnership with Head Start and the Administration for Children and Families), the W.T. Grant Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. She has served on numerous editorial boards, and is past co-editor of the journal Social Development, as well as current editor of Early Education Development.