Faculty & Staff Details
Marc Jocelyn Tassé, Ph.D.
Faculty/Assistant Director of Florida Center for Inclusive Communities
Division of Applied Research and Educational Support (DARES)
Brief Biography
Marc J. Tassé received his PhD in Research-Clinical Psychology from the Université du Québec à Montréal (1994). Following his graduate studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ohio State University's Nisonger Center, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Dr. Tassé accepted a faculty position of Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal from 1995-1999. In August of 1999 he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to being an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, he assumed the responsibilities of Community Education Director at UNC's Center for Development and Learning - UCEDD. Dr. Tassé remained at UNC until December 2006, when he joined the faculty at the University of South Florida. He is the Assistant Director of the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities - UCEDD and an Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies in the USF Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. Dr. Tassé has provided clinical services for over 20 years to individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other related developmental disabilities. He has consulted and testified in capital cases involving individuals with intellectual disabilities (formerly "mental retardation"; US Supreme Court decision - Atkins v. Virginia). Dr. Tassé has conducted over 100 trainings, workshops, and presentations in the following areas: Diagnosis of Mental Retardation, MR and co-occurring mental illness/complex behavior problems, Positive Behavior Supports, Assessment/Testing, Using the Supports Intensity Scale, Introduction to Developmental Disabilities. He also has over 65 publications in peer-reviewed journals, chapters, and books in the area of developmental disabilities. He has co-authored several published standardized assessment instruments in the field of developmental disabilities, including the Supports Intensity Scale (published in 2004). He is a co-author of the AAMR 2002 System (Luckasson et al., 2002) and the AAMR User's Guide (Schalock et al., 2007). He currently serves as the Chairperson of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD, formerly AAMR) ad hoc Committee on the development of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment Instrument. In 2005, Dr. Tassé's contributions in the field of developmental disabilities were recognized when he was awarded the "Fellow" status by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2005) as well as the AAIDD Service Award (2007).
Key Publications
Elimination Disorders.
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Predicting individual budgets in a support program for people with developmental disabilities: An Evaluation.
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Practice Guidelines in Working with Individuals who have Developmental Disabilities.
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Functional behavioral assessment in persons with intellectual disabilities.
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