Richard W. Malott is a professor emeritus of psychology at Western Michigan University [1] and a member of the board of directors at the Judge Rotenberg Center. He is a former president of Association for Behavior Analysis International.
Richard W. Malott is a professor emeritus of psychology at Western Michigan University [1] and a member of the board of directors at the Judge Rotenberg Center. He is a former president of Association for Behavior Analysis International.
Richard Malott was born October 3, 1936. He grew up in Converse, Indiana, [2] and received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University in 1958, followed by a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1963. [3] He began his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Denison University in 1963. [2] He is currently a Professor Emeritus at Western. [3]
Malott and his colleague Jack Michael [ citation needed ]provided services at the Croyden Avenue School, a center for autistic and cognitively impaired students in Kalamazoo County. [4] Malott founded the Kalamazoo Autism Center in 2008. [5]
Richard W. Malott is a member of the board of directors of the Judge Rotenberg Center. He is a former president of Association for Behavior Analysis International. [6]
Malott has been involved in a leadership role at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center since at least 2009. [7] In 2012, a video showing a patient face down and screaming while receiving electric shocks for up to six hours was aired on Fox News. The institution has faced a United Nations Human Rights inquiry, [8] a U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation, [8] and allegations of torture. [9] The U.N. Human Rights Council inquiry determined that patient rights had "...been violated under the UN Convention against Torture and other international standards" in 2013. [8] During a California Association for Behavior Analysis conference in 2018, Malott gave a keynote address in which he used derogatory gender-based and race-based language. Following the conference, the ABAI released a statement condemning the address. [10] A change.org petition calling for Malott to be censured was started shortly after, and amassed over 2,500 signatures. [11]
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