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Dr. Wendy Zeitlin received her BS in financial management from The University of Maryland at College Park, her MSW from Yeshiva University, and her PhD in social welfare from Yeshiva University. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the Child Advocacy and Social Work Programs.

Dr. Zeitlin's research focuses on child well-being with an emphasis on disabilities and access to care for underserved populations. Since 2017, she has conducted community-based research exploring how parents with intellectual disabilities fare in child welfare systems. In 2023, she was awarded an NIH grant supporting this work. As a result of her research, Dr. Zeitlin has authored several mixed-methods and quantitative studies published in top-tier journals. Additionally, her work has been presented at national and international conferences.

As part of her focus on child well-being, Dr. Zeitlin has been working with the New Jersey Department of Health to study recommended follow-up from the state's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI). The goal of this research is to identify factors and design strategies to help parents adhere to best practices related to congenital hearing loss in infants and young children. This research has been published and presented in top-tier journals and at national conferences.

Dr. Zeitlin in the author of four books on writing, statistics, research methods, and program evaluations, published by Oxford University Press and Routledge. Her most recent book will be published in early 2024 and is titled "Writing for Social Work." It focuses on helping students at all levels develop professional writing skills. "SSD for R: An R Package for Analyzing Single Subject Data" is related to practice-based research with the most recent edition being published in 2021. Her first-authored book, "Basic Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Using R" was published in 2019. "Making Your Case: Using R for Program Evaluation", was published in 2015.

Specialization

Dr. Zeitlin's research focuses on public health social work with an emphasis on disabilities and underserved populations. She also has expertise in several areas of social work pedagogy.

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• Dr. Zeitlin's YouTube channel with short videos demonstrating data analysis using R
• Collecting and evaluating data on social programs

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