Cecil R. Reynolds, Ph.D., ABN.
ABPdN
Emeritus
Professor of Educational
Psychology
Professor of Neuroscience
Distinguished Research Scholar
Texas A&M University
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Biography: |
Cecil R.
Reynolds, Ph.D., ABN, ABPdN earned his Doctoral Degree
from the University of Georgia in 1978 under the tutelage of Dr. Alan S.
Kaufman, with a major in School Psychology and minors in Statistics and in
Clinical Neuropsychology. He served an internship divided between the Medical
College of Georgia (Pediatric Neurology section and Neurological Surgery
section) and the Rutland Center for Severely Emotional Disturbed Children.
Prior to joining the Texas A & M University faculty in 1981, Dr. Reynolds
was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he served as
Associate Director and Acting Director of the Buros
Institute of Mental Measurement, after writing the grants and proposals to move
the Institute to Nebraska following the death of its founder, Oscar Buros. His primary research interests are in all aspects of
psychological assessment with particular emphasis on assessment of memory,
emotional and affective states and traits, and issues of cultural bias in
testing. He is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications and author or
editor of over 50 books including The
Clinician’s Guide to the BASC, Clinical
Applications of Continuous Performance Tests, Handbook of School Psychology, the Encyclopedia of Special Education, and the Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology. He is the author of
several widely used tests of personality and behavior including the Behavior Assessment System for Children
and the Revised Children's Manifest
Anxiety Scale. He is also senior author of the Test of Memory and Learning, the
Clinical Assessment Scales for the Elderly, and co-author of several
computerized test interpretation systems.
He is senior author of the Reynolds
Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS).
He maintained a clinical practice treating trauma victims and
individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury for 25 years before retiring from
clinical work at the end of 2003.
Dr. Reynolds
holds a diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of
Professional Neuropsychology, of which he is also a past president, and was a
diplomate in School Psychology of the American Board of Professional
Psychology, prior to retiring his diplomate in 2004. He is a past president of
the National Academy of Neuropsychology, APA Division 5 (Evaluation,
Measurement, and Statistics), APA
Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology), and APA Div. 16 (School
Psychology). He is a Fellow of APA
Divisions 1, 5, 15, 16, 40, and 53. Dr. Reynolds taught courses primarily in
the areas of psychological testing and diagnosis and in neuropsychology in
addition to supervising clinical practica in testing
and assessment. He served as Editor in Chief of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology (1990-2002), the official
journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, as Editor of Applied
Neuropsychology (20042008), and in January of 2009 began a 6 year term as
editor in chief of the APA journal Psychological
Assessment. He serves on the
editorial boards of 11 other journals in the field. He has served as Associate Editor of School Psychology Quarterly and of the Journal of Special Education.
Dr. Reynolds has received multiple national awards recognizing him for
excellence in research including the Lightner Witmer Award and the early career
awards from APA Divisions 5 and 15. He is a co-recipient of the Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues Robert Chin Award and a MENSA best
research article award. In 1999, Dr.
Reynolds received the Senior Scientist Award from APA Division 16 (School
Psychology). In 2000, he received the National Academy of Neuropsychology’s
Distinguished Clinical Neuropsychologist Award, the Academy’s highest award for
research accomplishments. He received
the NASP 2003 Lifetime