W. Larry Williams, Ph.D.

W. Larry Williams, Ph. D, BCBA-D, is a professor of psychology and the past director of the behavior analysis program (2008-2011) at the University of Nevada, Reno. After gaining his doctoral degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, he helped establish and later directed the first graduate program in special education in Latin America at the Federal University at Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, teaching over an eight year period. He subsequently directed several clinical programs for persons with intellectual disabilities at Surrey Place Center in Toronto, Canada, over a 10 year period.