Sharon Lee Armstrong
Sharon Lee Armstrong, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of Research & Dissertations at La Salle University. My specializations within the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science are psycholinguistics, semantics/ concepts/ categorization, and reasoning & decision making. My research focuses on NT adults and children and on selective mutism, autism, and TBI. I have published articles on Selective Mutism and a book, EXPRESS, on working with children with SM to advance their language skills. I
La Salle University
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This curriculum was designed for a clinical doctoral (PsyD) program dissertation requiring a single empirical study adhering to standards of Open Science and IRB mandates. As such, the curriculum guides students to produce journal-submission-ready articles that follow JARS for the specific type of project and adhere to APA style.
As the goal is to develop a single empirical study (rather than to develop a program of research with multiple studies as is often found in PhD dissertations), final documents have a maximum page limit of 35 pages, inclusive of everything.
The described curriculum includes a detailed sequence of JARS-inspired steps/tasks that spans two calendar years starting with the 2nd year of a 4-year, on-campus residency (before internship). This sequence is partitioned into four semesters of seminars with a Proposal and Defense midway and a Final Manuscript and Defense before students begin their 4th year.