title: Jeff Sigafoos
text: # Jeff Sigafoos
  
  Jeffrey Scott Sigafoos is a New Zealand professor of educational psychology.
  
  After a PhD from the University of Minnesota, Sigafoos has held roles at University of Queensland, University of Sydney, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a professor at Victoria University of Wellington and an adjunct professor at James Madison University.
  
  Sigafoos has been editor-in-chief of the journals Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Developmental Neurorehabilitation. In 2015, Sigafoos was implicated in a scandal involving Johnny Matson and another two academic journals, Research in Developmental Disabilities and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, according to which Matson allegedly accepted papers by a select group of authors including himself and Sigafoos for publication in these journals without first sending them out for peer review.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  * Challenging behavior and developmental disability
  * Technology and teaching
  * One-to-one training : instructional procedures for learners with developmental disabilities
  * Implementing augmentative and alternative communication : strategies for learners with severe disabilities
  