Ph.D., Hofstra
Russell J. Kormann
is the director of Project: Natural Setting Therapeutic Management (NSTM), a
community-based behavioral support program at Rutgers which serves individuals with
developmental disabilities and severe behavioral challenges. Project NSTM
provides on-site behavioral support to families and professional staff who work
with the referred individuals. The model has been adopted as a prototype for
state and national mental health care delivery and has been funded by the
New Jersey
Division of Developmental Disabilities since1980. Dr. Kormann has been with the project since 1986 and, during his tenure, has focused his professional attention
on issues of community and academic inclusion for individuals with behavioral
challenges, as well as on community-based behavioral assessment. He has a
specific clinical interest in serving both the behavioral and counseling needs
of students with autism spectrum disorders and Asperger's syndrome. He is a
behavioral consultant to over 20 school districts and residential programs
throughout New
Jersey serving students with severe behavioral, medical,
and psychiatric needs. He has published articles on managing severe behaviors in
classroom and community settings and is both a licensed, clinical psychologist
as well as a state certified school psychologist, and an American Association on Mental Retardation fellow.
