Elizabeth Preas, of Cooper, Texas, a psychology student at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Preas is performing an efficacy and efficiency evaluation of real-time feedback for training caregivers to teach daily living skills to children who are on the autism spectrum. Caregivers are a vital contributor to positive child outcomes, but they often have home, work, financial and other responsibilities that make it difficult for them to take part in training. Some studies of the real-time feedback training approach have shown promise; thus, this project aims to gather more evidence and evaluate methods that reduce the cost and time of training caregivers.

Her faculty mentor is Dr. Therese Mathews.