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Faculty & Staff Bio

Faculty
Psychology

J. Gregory Olley, PhD
Interim Director and Psychologist
Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning; Clinical Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Psychology and Counseling, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

EDUCATION
  • Ph.D. George Peabody College for Teachers 1973, Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology Internship University of Kansas Medical Center 1972
  • M.A. Wake Forest University 1968, Psychology
  • A.B. College of William and Mary 1966, Psychology

RESEARCH AND CLINICAL INTERESTS

Intellectual disabilities, autism, self-advocacy and people with developmental disabilities in the criminal justice system

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I have been at the CDL since 1988.  Before that I was the Director of Training at Division TEACCH at UNC Chapel Hill and before that a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  My current clinical activities include consultation and staff training for community programs serving children and adults with developmental disabilities, including those who have been accused or convicted of crimes.  I have collaborated on several projects, including Problem Solving for Life, a program for teaching problem solving skills to adolescents and adults with significant learning problems.  I am currently Principal Investigator for Project STIR, Steps Toward Independence and Responsibility, which is a program to strengthen self-advocacy.  I am the Chair of the Research Committee of the North Carolina chapter of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and I represent the CDL on the NC Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Governor’s Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities. 


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2006 – present      Psychologist and Interim Director, Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning and Clinical Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1998 - 2006           Psychologist and Associate Director, Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning and Clinical Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1988 - 1997           Psychologist and Director of Community Programs, Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning and Clinical Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1986 – 1988 Program Director, Behavioral Associates of Massachusetts, Inc., Attleboro, MA and Associate Clinical Director, The Groden Center, Inc., Providence, RI
1978-1986        

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of Training, Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped Children), and Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Special Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1973-1975 Director, Preschool Intervention Project, Psychological Services Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1972-1978             Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Everington, C., & Olley, J. G. (in press). Implications of Atkins v. Virginia: Issues in defining and diagnosing mental retardation.
             Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.

Larson, K. A., Griffin, M. P., & Olley, J. G. (in press). Competency to be sentenced. In B. L.      Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of
              psychology and law. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Olley, J. G., & Cox, A. W. (in press). Assessment of adaptive behavior in adult forensic cases: The use of the Adaptive Behavior
             Assessment System-II. In P. L. Harrison & T. Oakland (Eds.), Adaptive Behavior Assessment System: Assessment and
             applications for professional and paraprofessional practice. New York: Elsevier.

Olley, J. G. (2007). The assessment of adaptive behavior in adult forensic cases: Part 3.  Sources of adaptive behavior
             information. Psychology in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 33(1), 3-6.

Olley, J. G. (2006). The assessment of adaptive behavior in adult forensic cases: Part 2. The importance of adaptive behavior.
              Psychology in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 32(3), 7-8.

Olley, J. G. (2006). The assessment of adaptive behavior in adult forensic cases: Part 1. Psychology in Mental Retardation and
             Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 2-4.

Olley, J. G., Greenspan, S., & Switzky, H. (2006). Division 33 Ad Hoc Committee on Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty.
             Psychology in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 31(2), 11-13.
Olley, J. G. (2005). Curriculum and classroom structure. In F. R. Volkmar, R. Paul, A. Klin, & D. Cohen (Eds.) Handbook of
              autism and pervasive developmental disorders (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 863-881). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Baroff, G. B., with Olley, J. G. (1999). Mental retardation: Nature, cause, and management (3rd ed.). Philadelphia:
             Brunner/Mazel.

Olley, J. G. (1999). Curriculum for students with autism. School Psychology Review, 28, 595-607.