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Kathleen Hebbeler

Program Manager, Community Services and Strategies

Kathleen Hebbeler, Ph.D., Manager of the Community Services and Strategies Program, has 30 years of experience in research and evaluation of education, health, and social programs for children and adolescents. She has extensive experience in longitudinal research and is currently working on her sixth longitudinal study. She has directed large-scale projects involving quantitative and qualitative methods. Since joining SRI in 1992, Dr. Hebbeler has conducted evaluations for federal and state agencies and private foundations. She also has conducted training in evaluation design for a variety of audiences, with a special focus on identification and measurement of child and family outcomes.

Currently, Dr. Hebbeler directs the Early Childhood Outcomes Center, a 5-year project designed to build consensus and provide national leadership around issues related to the measurement of outcomes for young children with disabilities and their families. She also directed the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS), which examined services and outcomes for more than 3,300 infants and toddlers with disabilities in early intervention programs around the United States.

Dr. Hebbeler has authored numerous papers and presented at many national meetings in the areas of early childhood development, general and special education, community collaboration, and children's health. She is a nationally recognized expert on large-scale studies of children with disabilities, serving as advisor to major evaluations to help create designs that adequately address such issues as oversampling, measurement of disability. As a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessment for Young Children, she was a contributing author to the 2008 report Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What and How? She also served as a major author of a guidebook for community organizations on conducting evaluations. Dr. Hebbeler earned her Ph.D. in human development and family studies from Cornell University. Dr. Hebbeler can be contacted at cehs@sri.com.