Project Leadership Challenge Staff
Devender Banda, PhD, BCBA-D.
Position: Coordinator of Leadership Training
Experience: Dr. Banda has more than 20 years of experience working with individuals with developmental
disabilities and their families. He has worked in school settings and has also provided
behavioral consultation services in educational and home settings.
Position at TTU: Dr. Banda is a professor of special education and teaches courses in applied behavior
analysis and special education. He is the Verified Course Sequence (VCS) Coordinator
for the TTU ABA program.
Phone: 806-834-4827
Email:devender.banda@ttu.edu
Stacy Carter, PhD, BCBA-D, NCSP, LSSP
Position: Project Director
Experience: Dr. Carter has more than 20 years of experience working with individuals with developmental
disabilities and their families. He has worked in developmental disabilities centers
and with community supported living agencies in several different states.
Position at TTU: Dr. Carter is a professor of special education and teaches courses in applied behavior
analysis and special education.
Phone: 806-834-3343
Email:stacy.carter@ttu.edu
Nora Griffin-Shirley, PhD, COMS
Position: Project Evaluator and Coordinator of Mentorship Program
Experience: Dr. Griffin-Shirley has provided services to persons with IDD as an orientation and
mobility specialist for individuals who have a visual impairment. Additionally, she
was the guardian of an adult with IDD for many years until his death.
Position at TTU: Dr. Griffin-Shirley is the TTU's Director of the Virginia Murray Sowell Center for
Research and Education in Sensory Impairments, the Coordinator of Orientation and
Mobility Program and the TTU's Graduate School Certificate in Sensory Impairments
and Autism.
Phone: 806-834-0225
Email:n.griffin-shirley@ttu.edu
Pam Lindell, BS
Position: Specialist
Experience: Pam has taught life skills to students with IDD for over 15 years through public
education and state supported agencies.
Position at TTU: Pam has served as a business assistant and course designer for several grants awarded
to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Certification Preparation and Deafblind programs at
Texas Tech.
Phone: 806-834-2016
Email:pamela.j.lindell@ttu.edu
National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities
The Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities
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