Dr. Butter serves as Section and Division Chief of Psychology in the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH and a Principle Investigator at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute.  Dr. Butter is one of the researchers who helped to develop and test the RUBI Parent Training program.  He has published widely on the assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.  Recently, he has been supporting the dissemination of RUBI Parent Training through continuing educational workshops and through the implementation of ECHO RUBI with the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network and the Autism Learning Health Network.

Dr. Bearss directs the RUBI Parent Training program at the Seattle Children’s Autism Center and is on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.  She is a clinical scientist with the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and continues to advance RUBI Parent Training program focusing on clinical implementation, development of telehealth RUBI Parent Training, and group RUBI Parent Training.  Recently, she has published on anxiety and autism as well as parenting stress.  Dr. Bearrs lectures around the country supporting the dissemination of RUBI PT in clinical practice and is one of the most prolific lecturers about parent training for children with autism.

Dr. Johnson directs the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism and is faculty in the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  Dr. Johnson is one of the primary developers of the RUBI Parent Training program and has participated in all of the formative research that has established this treatment.  She has lectured widely in support of dissemination of RUBI Parent Training and has continued to advance research in parent training for children with autism. Dr. Johnson has adapted the parent training program to specifically support better sleep habits for children with ASD as well as an adaption for parent training to help address feeding problems among children with autism. She is currentrly researching telehealth adaptions and and the inclusion of RUBI Parent Training as on component of an adaptive comprehensive intervention for young children with autism.