Category: News

3-C ISD Featured in the Triangle Business Journal

3-C Institute for Social Development is featured in the August 2012 issue of the Triangle Business Article. The article focuses on the company’s recent awards of nearly $4.5 million in grant funding. Check out the Triangle Business Journal to read the full article.

3-C ISD Featured on SBIR Success Stories

3-C Institute for Social Development was featured as a SBIR Success Story on the federal Small Business Innovation Research program’s website. The article highlights the role of the SBIR program in the company’s success. Please visit the SBIR website to read the full article.

3-C ISD featured in The Business Journals

3-C Institute for Social Development is featured in The Business Journals’ “From Beginners to Bigshots” exclusives section. The article chronicles the growth of the company with the help the federal SBIR grant program. Read the full article in the Business Journal for more details. Click here to view a pdf of the article.

3-C ISD Featured in SBA Tibbetts Award Video

In February 2011, 3-C ISD was honored with the Tibbetts Award, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, for its outstanding efforts and success in research, development, and innovation. 3-C ISD President and CEO, Dr. Melissa DeRosier, is featured in a short video about the awards ceremony. To view the video, visit the SBIR website. […]

Zoo U featured on IES website

3-C Institute for Social Development’s Zoo U is featured on the Institute for Educational Sciences website. Zoo U is an online interactive adventure and an assessment tool for educators. Zoo U evaluates students’ social skills in six key areas and provides real-time reporting at the classroom, school, and district levels.

3-C Institute for Social Development receives SBA Tibbetts Award

Cary-Based 3-C Institute for Social Development Recognized for Exceptional Innovation Tibbetts Awards honor projects that bring federal R&D from the lab to the market Cary, NC— 3-C Institute for Social Development (3-C ISD) today announced that it has received a Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Administration (SBA) for its evidence-based mental health programs.  SBA […]

3-C Institute for Social Development featured in The Cary News

3-C Institute for Social Development (3-C ISD) was featured in The Cary News in an article focusing on the recent site visit of U.S. Representative David Price. Representative Price called 3-C ISD an example of how business and government can work together, and the article highlights the many contracts and grants that 3-C ISD has […]

Congressman David Price Visits 3-C Institute for Social Development

Cary, NC Congressman David Price visited sister companies 3-C Family Services, 3-C Institute for Social Development (3-C ISD), and SELmedia today for a town hall-style meeting with the staff. Congressman Price commended 3-C ISD for its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) success. The recipient of numerous successful SBIR grants over the past ten years, 3-C […]

SAMHSA Science and Service Award Announced

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced the 2010 Mental Health Promotion winners. These competitive, national awards are designed to recognize community-based organizations and coalitions that successfully implement evidence-based interventions. 3-C Family Services, our partner company in Cary, NC, received the award thanks to its use of the suite of S.S.GRIN […]

DeRosier Delivers Presentation in Japan on S.S.GRIN

Melissa DeRosier, director of 3-C ISD, presented “Implementing effective social-emotional interventions in schools” at the International Academic Conference on Prevention Programs for Children’s Health and Adjustment. This conference was held on September 25th, 2010, at Naruto University of Education in Naruto, Japan. Dr. DeRosier also delivered a presentation at Hosei University in Tokyo and is […]

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DEB CHILDRESS, PHD

Chief of Research and Learning Content

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Childress obtained her PhD in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to 3C Institute, she served as a research associate and a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on a longitudinal imaging study aimed at identifying the early markers of autism through behavioral and imaging methodologies. She has 19 years of autism research experience, during which she has examined the behavioral, personality, and cognitive characteristics of individuals with autism and their family members. Dr. Childress also has experience developing behavioral and parent report measurement tools, coordinating multi-site research studies, and collecting data from children and families. She has taught courses and seminars in general child development, autism, and cognitive development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Expertise

  • autism
  • early development
  • behavioral measurement
  • integrating behavioral and biological measurement

Education

  • Postdoctoral fellowship, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (Institutional NRSA-NICHD), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • PhD, developmental psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • BS, psychology (minor in sociology), University of Iowa

Selected Publications

  • Elison, J. T., Wolff, J. J., Heimer, D. C., Paterson, S. J., Gu, H., Hazlett, H. C., Styner, M, Gerig, G., & Piven, J. (in press). Frontolimbic neural circuitry at 6 months predicts individual differences in joint attention at 9 months. Developmental Science.
  • Wassink, T. H., Vieland, V. J., Sheffield, V. C., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., Childress, D. & Piven, J. (2008). Posterior probability of linkage analysis of autism dataset identifies linkage to chromosome 16. Psychiatric Genetics,18(2),85-91.
  • Losh, M., Childress, D., Lam K. & Piven, J. (2008). Defining key features of the broad autism phenotype: A comparison across parents of multiple- and single-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 147B(4):424-33.
  • Wassink, T. H., Piven, J., Vieland, V. J., Jenkins, L., Frantz R., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., … Sheffield, V.C. (2005). Evaluation of the chromosome 2q37.3 gene CENTG2 as an autism susceptibility gene. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 136, 36-44.
  • Barrett, S., Beck, J., Bernier, R., Bisson, E., Braun, T., Casavant, T., Childress, D., … Vieland, V. (1999). An autosomal genomic screen for autism. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 88, 609-615. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991215)88:63.0.CO;2-L
  • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Landa, R., Santangelo, S., Jacobi, D. & Childress, D. (1997). Personality and language characteristics in parents from multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 74, 398-411.
  • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Jacobi, D., Childress, D. & Arndt, S. (1997). Broader autism phenotype: Evidence from a family history study of multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 185-190.