Dr. Marissa Yingling
Associate Professor
To achieve their greatest potential, children with developmental disorders and their families deserve equitable access to effective services
For nearly 20 years Dr. Yingling has been invested in the provision of health care for children with autism and their families. She is dedicated to improving individual and family outcomes by evaluating and enhancing access to treatment for children with ASD.
Dr. Yingling’s more recent research interests include the implications of human activities in space, the unknown, and the human future.
Website:https://www.marissayingling.com/
Select Publications:
Bell, B.A., Yingling, M.E., Anders, A., & Sjogren, A.L. (Eds.). (under contract). Handbook of Research Methods and Methodologies for the Social Sciences. New York: Routledge.
Yingling, M.E. (2023). Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos. International Journal of Social Welfare. doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12606
Yingling, M.E., Ruther, M.H., & Dubuque, E.M. (2022). Geographic access to Registered Behavior Technicians among children with autism spectrum disorder. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi.org/10.1007/s40617-022-00729-1
Yingling, M.E., Ruther, M.H., Dubuque, E.M., & Mandell, D.S. (2021). County-level variation in geographic access to Board Certified Behavior Analysts among children with autism spectrum disorder in the United States. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 25(6):1734-1745. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/13623613211002051
Yingling, M.E., Ruther, M.H., Dubuque, E.M., & Bell, B.A. (2021). Impact of county sociodemographics and state policy on geographic access to behavior analysts among children with ASD. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10488-021-01120-y
Yingling, M.E. (2020). COVID-19: Social Work’s opportunity to revitalize its advocacy for a universal, single-payer healthcare system. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. doi.org/10.1007/s41134-020-00143-z
Yingling, M.E., Creel, L.M., & Bell, B. A. (2020). Assessing progress of the Healthy People 2020 objective to expand early treatment receipt among a national sample of children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 41(5),563-570. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000786
Yingling, M.E. (2019). Participation in Part C early intervention: One key to unlocking earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder? The Journal of Pediatrics, 215, 238-243. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.06.034
Yingling, M.E., Bell, B.A., & Hock, R.M. (2019). Treatment utilization trajectories among children with autism spectrum disorder: Differences by race-ethnicity and neighborhood. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(5), 2173-2183. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-03896-3
Yingling, M.E. & Bell, B.A. (2018). Racial-ethnic and neighborhood inequities in age of treatment receipt among a national sample of children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 23(4), 963–970. doi: 10.1177/13623613187918161
Yingling, M.E., Hock, R.M., & Bell, B.A. (2017). Time-lag between diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and onset of publicly-funded EIBI: Do race-ethnicity and neighborhood matter? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(2), 561-571. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3354-
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