Dr. Joyce Tu is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a doctorate in educational psychology from West Virginia University specializing in applied behavior analysis (ABA). She has over 25 years’ experience as an ABA educator, practitioner and business leader in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Tu is President of the B.F. Skinner Foundation; Vice President of Clinical Transformations, Autism Services for Easterseals Southern California; and Founder and Director of ABA Unlimited, a behavior analysis continuing education provider.
Dr. Tu’s research is chiefly in verbal behavior, specifically, joint control and its role in listeners’ behavior. She has held ABA professorships at Cal State University Los Angeles; Ball State University; Florida Institute of Technology; and Beijing University, where she developed and supervised the university’s first verified ABA course sequence.
