Executive Director

Laura Grow, Ph.D, BCBA-D

Dr. Grow is the Executive Director of Garden Academy. She received her doctorate in behavior analysis from Western Michigan University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute.

Dr. Grow is a former faculty member of California State University- Fresno and University of British Columbia. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst at the doctoral level. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Dr. Grow is a current editorial board member for Behavior Analysis in Practice. She has published over 20 research studies in top-tiered journals in behavior analysis and education.

Dr. Grow has over 25 years of experience implementing and directing services for individuals with developmental disabilities across the lifespan. Her clinical and research interests include teaching language and communication skills, comparing the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching strategies, and refining parent and staff training techniques.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her dog, Gouda, and cooking Cajun food in her great-grandmother’s cast-iron pot.

Selected Publications from Dr. Grow

Grow, L. L. (2025). More than the work: Reflections on building a sustainable career in behavior analysis. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000318.

Kodak, T., Grow, L. L., & Bergmann, S. C. J. (2021). Behavioral treatment of autism spectrum disorder. In G. J. Madden & D. J. Dube (Eds.), Handbook of applied behavior analysis (pp. 389–409). Routledge.

Bergmann, S., Turner, M., Kodak, T., Grow, L. L., Meyerhofer, C., & Niland, H. S. (2021). Replicating stimulus‐presentation orders in discrimination training. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 54(2), 793–812. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.797.

Breeman, S. L., Vladescu, J. C., DeBar, R. M., Grow, L. L., & Marano, K. E. (2020). The effects of procedural integrity errors during auditory–visual conditional discrimination training: A preliminary investigation. Behavioral Interventions, 35(2), 203–216. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.1710.

Pastrana, S., Frewing, T., Grow, L., Nosik, M., Turner, M., & Carr, J. E. (2018). Frequently assigned readings in behavior analysis graduate training programs. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 11(2), 267–273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-016-0137-9.

Grow, L. L., & LeBlanc, L. A. (2013). Teaching receptive language skills: Recommendations for instructors. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 6(1), 2–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391791.

Grow, L. L., Carr, J. E., Kodak, T., Jostad, C. M., & Kisamore, A. N. (2011). A comparison of methods for teaching receptive labeling to children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44(3), 475–498. https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2011.44-475.