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Publications:
Hung, David: A Behavior Modification
on Approach
to Teach, Record, and Analyze Vocal
Imitative
Responses in Mute Retarded Children,
M.A.
theses, Queen's University, 1971.
Hung, David: Functional Teaching: Generalization
of taught skills from the classroom
to other
settings. In Proceedings of the Annual
Conference
of the Ontario Association of Teachers
for
the Mentally Retarded, 1975.
Hung, David: Teaching Mute Retarded
Children
Vocal Imitation, Journal Behavior Therapy
and Experimental Psychiatry, Volume
7, pages
85-88, 1976.
Hung, David: New Directions in the
Teaching
of Autistic Children; Evaluation Towards
The Establishment of a functional Teaching
Manual, Research Report (ONO667), The
Ontario
Ministry of Education, 1977.
Hung, David: New Directions in the
Teaching
of Autistic Children; Evaluation Towards
The Establishment of a Functional Teaching
Manual - Phase II. Research Report
(ONO668),
The Ontario Ministry of Education,
1978.
Hung, David: A summer camp treatment
program
for autistic children with Mary J.
Thelander.
Exceptional Children, April, 1978.
Hung, David: Using Self - stimulation
as
Reinforcement for Autistic Children,
Journal
of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia,
1978,
8, 355-366.
Hung, David: A Brief Restraint Procedure
to Reduce Severe Self - Abusive Behavior,
Paper presented at the American Psychological
Association Conference, Toronto, 1978.
Hung, David: Evaluation of Educational
Model
for Treatment of Autistic Children,
with
Z. Rotman, E. Henderson, A. Cosentino,
M.
Millar, C. Chadwick, and M. Rolling.
Paper
presented at the American Psychological
Association,
Toronto, 1978.
Hung, David: Teaching Autistic Children
to
Follow Instructions in a Group: The
Use of
Firm Prompts After the Use of Gesture
and
Guidance. Journal of Behavior Therapy
and
Experimental Psychiatry, Vol. 10, #4,
1979,
with A. Consentino and E. Henderson.
Hung, David: Training and Generalization
of Yes and No as Mands in Two Autistic
Children,
Journal of Autism and Developmental
Disorders,
Volume 10, #2, 1980, 139-152.
Hung, David: Cost and Effectiveness
of an
Educational Program for Autistic Children
using a Systems approach, Education
and Treatment
of Children, Vol. G, #1, 1983, 47-68.
With
Z. Rotwan, A. Cosautino, and M. MacMillan.
Hung, David: Five-day-week Community-based
Residential Treatment Program for Autistic/Developmentally
Disabled and Pre-delinquent Children:
the
CIRT Model, with P. Drash. In W. P.
Christian,
G. Banna and T.J. Glahn (Eds.): Programming
Effective Human Services: Strategies
for
Institutional Change and Client Transition.
Plenum Press: New York, 1983.
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MEMBERSHIP or CERTIFICATION
Associate member, Hong Kong Psychological
Association
Certified School Administrator, State Board
of Education, Delaware, 1982-1992.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES
1. Directed a Statewide programs (residential
and day schools) for 50 autistic students,
age 2 to 20, supervise a staff of 53,develop
and monitor programs in community, home and
school settings.
Budget: $1.7 million per annum Years: 1982-1987
2. Directed a children's residential treatment
program. Developed the CIRT model for the
treatment of children with developmental
disabilities and behavior problems, supervised
a staff of 27, defined staff roles and structure,
shift schedules and treatment parameters,
submitted annual reports.
Budget: $275,000 per annum Years: 1977-1982
3. Owned and managed a private preschool
for 45 children with a staff of 6.
Budget: $78,000 per annum Years: 1981-1984
4. Administered a school research program
with a staff of nine, including hiring and
supervising staff, budget management, and
equipment purchase.
Budget: $78,000 per annum Years: 1975-1977
5. Planned treatment programs for autistic
children, trained and supervised a staff
of 22 in a camp and school program.
Budget: $76,000 per annum Years: 1974-1975
WORKING EXPERIENCES
1. Designed a behavior modification program
for hyperactive, non-compliant boys in a
classroom-McGill University, 1969.
2. Programming for autistic children - The
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 1969-70 .
Programs included vocal imitation training
for non-vocal children, teaching language
concepts, family counseling, training cooperative
play skill.
3. Established and monitored the first behavior
modification unit for 14 residential retarded
children - Rideau Region Hospital School,
1970-72. Programs included toilet training,
meal time behavior training, teaching self-care
skills, and increasing social play behavior.
4. Supervised mummer practicum for undergraduate
students in language training for exceptional
children. Children's Psychiatric Research
Institute, London, Ontario, 1973-74.
5. Trained and supervised institution staff
to carry out a language training program
and a token economy program - Children's
Psychiatric Research Institute, London, Ontario,
1973-74.
6. Directed an intensive summer camp treatment
program for autistic children, Integra Foundation,
1974-75. Responsible for design and implementation
of treatment programs on both behavior problems
and skill acquisition; also responsible for
staff training and supervision.
7. Planned and conducted follow-up of the
autistic children, Integra Foundation, 1974-75.
Assisting parents and teachers of children
to set up specific programs at home and at
school, and collecting quantitative evaluation
date.
8. Developed and directed and experimental
teaching program and curriculum for two classes
of autistic/retarded children, Rotary School,
Toronto, 1975-77. Training and supervision
of teachers and research staff, and quantitative
evaluations of the program.
9. Directed for 4years a residential treatment/demonstration
program for 8 autistic and 8 pre-delinquent
children with severe behavior and learning
problems. Florida Mental Health Institute,
Tampa, 1977-1981. Develop and supervise a
wide range of programs, ranging from training
language development, self-help skills, social
skills, to management of behavior problems.
Also responsible for staff organization and
cost effectiveness of the program.
10. Dissemination of research and treatment
procedures in professional workshops and
conferences. Consultation with community
agencies and schools regarding treatment,
evaluation, and research for special children,
since 1974.
11. Design, develop, and supervise programs
and services for autistic children in the
State of Delaware.
12. Drafting the first guidelines on the
use of drugs and aversives in education and
mental health agencies in Delaware.
13. Own and manage a day care/preschool for
45 normal children aged 3 months to 5 years
old. Develop basic curriculum, activities,
and schedules. Tampa, 1981-present.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1. programming in language development, self-care,
and academics.
a. Designed and evaluated a system to teach,
record, and analyses vocal imitative responses
in language delayed children, Rideau Regional
Hospital School, 1971.
b. Examined variables controlling the learning
and generalization of 'curiosity' questioning
across settings, Integra Foundation, 1975.
c. Evaluated a shaping procedure to eliminate
echolalia speech, Rotary School, 1976.
d. Training and generalization of manding
responses, Rotary School, 1977.
e. Comparison of two toilet training procedures
Florida Mental Health Institute, 1980.
2. Behavioral development.
a. Variables affecting the development and
maintenance of cooperative play, Surrey Place
Centre, Toronto, 1969, University of Western
Ontario, 1972-75.
b. Use of self-stimulation as a reinforcer,
Integra Foundation, 1975.
c. Comparison of three procedures to teach
compliance, Rotary School, Toronto, 1976.
d. Treatment and follow-up of self-abusive
behavior - Rotary School, 1975-77; Florida
Mental Health Institute, 1977-79.
e. Development of an immobilization procedure
to treat self-abuse, self-stimulation and
aggression - Florida Mental Health Institute,
1980-81.
3. Program evaluation.
a. Evaluated the factors controlling generalization
of social skills from treatment to non-treatment
settings in pre-delinquent youths, Florida
Mental Health Institute, 1979-81.
b. Evaluating tantrumous behaviors of pre-delinquent
youths as a function of the staff's manner
of delivering punishing consequences, Florida
Mental Health Institute, 1979-81.
c. Cost/effectiveness of a summer camp for
autistic children - with Mary Thelandar,
1974-75.
d. Comparison of cost/effectiveness between
an experimental day school program and three
other programs (including a residential program)
for autistic children, Rotary School Autistic
Program, 1976-77.
e. Follow-up evaluation of long-term progress
of autistic children, Ministry of Education,
Ontario, 1982.
f. Comparison of cost/effectiveness of an
intensive residential treatment research
program for pre-delinquent children and autistic
children, including follow-up evaluation,
Florida Mental Health Institute, 1977-82.
g. Comparison of skill acquisition of children
enrolled in three different autistic programs
in Delaware, 1982.
4. Assessment instruments.
a. Developed and field tested the Functional
Behavior Checklist (FBC) - Rotary School,
1976-77; Florida Mental Health Institute,
1977-78; Delaware Autistic Programs, 1982.
b. Developed and field-tested the Problem
Behavior Observation (FBC) System to evaluate
behavioral change of pre-delinquent children,
Florida Mental Health Institute, 1977-1981.
c. Developed and field tested the Antisocial
Behavior Observation (ABC0 System to evaluate
behavioral change of pre-delinquent children,
Florida Mental Health Institute.
5. Staff training and program management.
a. Examined management variables affecting
the maintenance of cleanliness by staff in
a residential treatment program, Florida
Mental Health Institute, 1978-80.
b. Evaluated the management structure required
to transform a traditional residential treatment
program to a date-based program, Florida
Mental Health Institute, 1979-80.
c. Evaluated the variables needed to train
staff to effectively replicate a speech training
program, Florida Mental Health Institute,
1979.
d. Evaluating a system of written feedback
to improve and maintain a consistent, data-based
teaching structure, Delaware Autistic Program,
1984.
AS SPEAKER IN PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
"A summer camp treatment and follow-up
program for 17 autistic children", Annual
Conference of the Canadian Society for Autistic
Children, Toronto, 1975.
"Teaching functional language to artistic
children", Symposium of Autism, sponsored
by the Ontario Ministry of Education, Toronto,
1975.
"Functional Teaching: Generalization
of taught skills from the classroom to other
settings", Annual Conference of the
Ontario Association of Teachers for the Mentally
Retarded, Toronto, 1975.
"Group Teaching of Autistic Children",
Annual Conference of the Canadian Society
for Autistic Children, Ottawa, 1976.
"Teaching instruction following and
self-help skills in autistic children; and
Management of classroom behaviors of autistic
children, London, Ontario, 1976.
"Teaching autistic children in a group;
A functional curriculum and a replicable
structure", and "A technique of
behavioral direction to reduce self-abase
and to train instruction following and self-help
skills", Conference on Autism, sponsored
by the Ontario Ministry of Education and
the Ontario Society for Autistic Children,
Toronto, 1977.
"A brief restraint procedure to reduce
severe self-abusive behavior", the American
Psychological Association Conference, Toronto,
1978.
"Evaluation of and educational treatment
program for autistic children", the
American Psychological Association Conference,
Toronto, 1978, with Z. Rotman, A. Cosentino,
E. Henderson, and M. Millan.
"Iceberg Parents, Empty Fortress, Megavitamins,
Idiot Savant where have they led us if treating
autism?", CIRT State-wide Conference,
Tampa, 1978.
"A Quantitative Evaluation System for
a treatment Program, A Step Toward Accountability",
with L. Schwartz, CIRT state-wide Conference,
Tampa, 1978.
"A System to Teach and Analyze Vocal
and Verbal Imitation in Children", with
T. Forman, G. Burrman, and D. Cline, CIRT
state-wide Conference, Tampa, 1978.
Symposium on residential treatment for children,
Conference of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, Chicago, 1978.
"Turning the Traditional Residential
Program into a behavioral Data-Based Program
without Adding Treatment Staff". CIRT
Statewide Conference, Tampa, February, 1979.
"Penetrating Family Dynamics; An Instrument
for Quantifying and Modifying Parent/Child
Interactions", with R. Wehr and C. Raible,
CIRT Statewide Conference, Tampa, August,
1979.
"Turning a traditional residential program
into a data-based treatment program: The
CIRT system", Conference of the Association
for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,
New York, 1980.
"The Principles and Methods of Precision
Teaching", CIRT Statewide Conference,
Tampa, 1980.
"Social Skills Learning Strategy Made
More Precise of How to Teach the Child to
Charm the Adult World With Alacrity and Wit",
with Patricia Slowey and Ernie Catillo, CIRT
Statewide Conference, Tampa, 1981.
"Training and Generalization of Play
Skills in Autistic and Developmentally Delayed
Children", the ALERT Conference, sponsored
by the Florida Society for Autistic Children,
Tampa, 1981.
"Intensive Residential Treatment for
Children: The Five-day Week Model",
Association of Behavior Analysis Conference,
Milwaukee, 1981.
"In There Life After Treatment? Returning
Children to the Community", CIRT Statewide
Conference, Tampa, September, 1981.
"A Three-phase Token System that Quickly
Reduces Anti-Social Behaviors", "A
Practical Behavioral Instrument to Evaluate
Parent/Child Treatment', "In Quick Cure
Enough? Follow-up Results", and
"Sixteen Children and 21 Adults Living
Under One Roof: Keeping the Place Clean and
Orderly", Symposium presented at the
Florida Association of Behavior Analysis
Conference, with Luanne Panacek, Cathy Werling
and Jim Archibold, Orlando, October, 1981.
Practical Obstacles to the Generalization
of Treatment Effects, Presented at the Statewide
workshop on "Generalization the Family
and Community", Florida Mental Health
Institute, October, 1981.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
1. Trained seven childcare workers to carry
out programs in self-care, language training
and behavior management, Rideau Regional
Centre, 1970-71.
2. Taught undergraduate course 'Exceptional
Child', University of Western Ontario, 1972-73.
3. Trained and supervised 4 residential counselors
to conduct speech programs for retarded children,
Children's Psychiatric Research Institute,
1973-74.
4. Trained and supervised 18 staff to carry
out behavior management procedures and contingency
analysis in a summer camp treatment program,
Integra Foundation, 1975-77.
5. Trained and supervised 4 special education
teachers, 4 research staff to conduct behavioral
management and training programs, and measurement,
and evaluation in classes for autistic children,
Rotary School, Toronto, 1975-77.
6. Seminars and workshops for special education
teachers on behavioral principles and programs,
Conferences of the Canadian Society for Autistic
Children, 1975-76; Symposium organized by
the Ontario Ministry of Education, March,
1977; Council for Exceptional Children, December,
1976; Summer courses for special education
teachers given by the Ministry of Education,
Ontario, July and August 1977.
7. Trained and supervised a staff of 25 for
a children's residential treatment program,
Florida Mental Health Institute, 1977-1982.
8. Organized tow one-day workshops per year
for mental health and education professionals
in the State of Florida, sponsored by the
Children's Intensive Residential Treatment
Project, Florida Mental Health Institute;
in addition, periodic on-site consultation
and training of staff in community agencies,
1977-1982.
9. Teaching undergraduate course 'Human Development
and Learning', University of South Florida,
1979,1980,1981.
10. Guest lecturer on "Autism and Developmental
Disabilities' in undergraduate course 'Applied
Behavior Analysis', University of Delaware,
1983,1984.
AWARDS RECEIVED:
Research Studentship, Ontario Mental Health
Foundation, 1971-72.
Research Studentship, Ontario Mental Health
Foundation, 1972-73.
GRANTS RECEIVED:
Research Project Grant (Teaching cooperative
play skills), Ontario Mental Health Foundation,
with S. Bucher, 1972-73, $2,200.
Research Project Grant (Language Training),
Medical Research Council of Canada, with
S. Bucher, 1972-73, $2,500.
Contractual Research Grant (Educational Programming
for Autistic Children), Ontario Ministry
of Education, 1975-76, $62,000.
Contractual Research Grant (Development of
a Functional Curriculum for Autistic Children),
Ontario Ministry of Education, 1976-77, $65,000
Respite Care Project Grant, Delaware Developmental
Disabilities Council, 1982-83, $12,400.
Respite Care Project Grant, Delaware Developmental
Disabilities Council, 1983-84, $14,500.
Research Grant (Long-term Follow-up of Autistic
Children), Ontario Ministry of Education,
1982-83, $9,500.
Federal Project Grant (Vocational Training),
Department of Public Instruction, Delaware,
1982-83, $4,200.
OTHER INTERESTS:
I have been a professional violinist for
the past 13 years, and have given recitals.
I have been a member of the Hamilton Philharmonic,
the National Ballet Orchestra, The Royal
Winnepeg Ballet Orchestra, and the Florida
Gulf Coast Symphony.
LANGUAGES: In addition to English, I speak
and write Chinese.
REFERENCES
1. Dr. Bradley Bucher, Professor of Psychology
(retired to Princeton, New Jersey), University
of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
2. Dr. George Smith, Department of Special
Education, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware
