Geraldine V. Oades-Sese is an Assistant Professor at GSAPP in the School Psychology Program. She is a nationally certified school psychologist and is the founder and director of the Research Center for Resilience and Early Childhood Development. Her professional experience includes providing assessment and intervention services for gifted children, as well as developmentally delayed, multiply-handicapped, and medically-fragile infants, children, and adolescents. She authored a number of published book chapters in the Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology (2007), Handbook of Multicultural Assessment (2007), and The Praeger Handbook of Special Education (2007). Her research on resilience among at-risk preschool children was published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Resilience in Children (2006). Her research was presented at the New York Academy of Sciences and the Early Childhood Conference, and will also be presented at the upcoming 2008 National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Convention on Resilience.
Research Center for Resilience and Early Childhood Development
Currently, the research center is conducting a longitudinal study on at-risk preschool children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The center is examining neurocognitive, psychosocial, and cultural-linguistic factors (protective and risk factors) that affect bilingual development, social-emotional development, school readiness, and early literacy skills. Website: http://gsappweb.rutgers.edu/centers/rcrecd
Research Interests
Resilience, preschool assessment, bilingual development, social-emotional development, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and preschool interventions
Instructor for the Following Courses:
- Individual Cognitive Assessment
- Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment for Psychological Disorders in Children
Email: grasez@rci.rutgers.edu