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Dr. Maurice Feldman is a Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Applied Disability Studies. He is a registered clinical psychologist in Ontario and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (Doctoral level). He has over 170 peer-review publications and 250 invited addresses, conference presentations/posters, and workshops. He is considered a world-leader on parenting by persons with learning difficulties. The evidence-based Step-by-Step© Parenting Program he and his colleagues developed and evaluated is emulated worldwide. He conducts parenting assessments of parents with learning difficulties and has written the only book on this topic (Feldman & Aunos, 2010). He provides both in person and virtual workshops to train workers in the Step-by-Step© Parenting Program. In addition to his work in parenting, Dr. Feldman has additional clinical expertise and conducts research in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and intellectual disabilities. He is the lead researcher in the design and validation of a parent-report screener to track early infant development called the Parent Observation of Early Markers Scale (POEMS). The POEMS predicts ASD diagnosis as early as 9 months of age in at-risk children (Feldman et al., 2012) and is used to identify treatment targets for parent-mediated interventions for infants and young children at-risk for ASD (Azzano et al., 2022a, b). He is currently conducting a study of an online version of the POEMS (called the Parent Observation Checklist).