She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Sandra L. Harris is a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and Department of Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers, which serves people with autism from toddlers through adults. Dr. Harris is also the editor of Woodbine House's Topics in Autism series and the co-author of the books Siblings of Children with Autism (2012), Reaching Out, Joining In (2001) and Right from the Start (2007).