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Jan Blacher
Distinguished Professor, UC Presidential Chair, Director, SEARCH Autism Center, UCR. Research focus on families, ASD, schooling.
Jan Blacher, a Distinguished Professor and UC Presidential Chair in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside, is known nationally for her research on developmental disabilities, and for her expertise in autism and special educational programming.
She is the founding director of SEARCH, a Family Autism Resource Center at UC Riverside. Her research focuses on the family context of children and adolescents with and without developmental disabilities, including predictors of later psychopathology. She has published on family coping in Anglo and Latino families, and is currently studying the cultural context of autism and the transition to early schooling for children with autism.
She frequently appears as an expert witness in contested cases involving right-to-education suits for children with autism. Dr. Blacher is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and also holds a joint appointment as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA.