Jill Locke, PhD
Jill Locke, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a licensed child psychologist and the former co-Director of the SMART Center from 2020-23. To date, her research has focused on the: 1) presentation of social impairment for autistic youth; 2) identification of best practices for autistic youth; and 3) understanding of successful implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for autistic youth in public school settings. Her current research focuses on understanding EBP use to support autistic youth in inclusive settings and developing and testing implementation strategies to support the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of EBPs in public schools.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012
PhD, UCLA, 2010
MA, UCLA, 2007
BA, UCLA, 2005
Department Affiliations
Centers/Programs
Scholarly Expertise
Clinical Expertise
- School-Based Paraeducator Education for Engagement at Recess (SPEER)
- Testing the efficacy of the Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) implementation strategy
- Redesigning Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Autistic Young Adults in Community Clinics
- Systematic redesign of an autism community implementation toolkit for schools
- Preparing teachers and paraprofessionals for the successful inclusion of children with ASD (ASD PREP)
- Autism Intervention Network on Behavioral Health (AIR-B)
- Autism Community Toolkit: Systems to Measure and Adopt Research-Based Treatments- Educational Redesign (ACT SMARTER)
- Implementation Toolkit to Enhance EBP Among Marginalized Families (I-TEAM)
- Exploring mechanisms of change in a pilot trial of the RUBI Program in educational settings
- A Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE) to address the “Last Mile” in education
- Helping Educational Leadership Mobilize Evidence (HELM): an organizational intervention to promote strategic implementation in schools
Recent Publications
(2026 Oct 17)
Autism
Kang S, Ghosh Choudhuri P, Sridhar A, Landa Y, Kim ES, Locke J
(2026 Aug 3)
Evid Based Pract Child Adolesc Ment Health
Sridhar A, Michael O, Dickson KS, Du A, Thirion M, Drahota A, Hall LJ, Kraemer B, Stahmer A, Mandell D, Locke J
(2026 Nov)
Autism 30(11): 2955-2963
de Marchena A, Wieckowski AT, Freedman B, Shea L, Locke J, Cronholm PF, Leff SS, Vivanti G, Robins DL
(2026 Jan-Dec)
Implement Res Pract 7(): 26334895261448447
Locke J, Tagavi D, Seaver S, Kuo Y, Fettig A, Torres R, Bearss K
(2026 Mar 28)
Implement Sci 21(1):
Locke J, Williams NJ, Sridhar A, Shih W, Espeland C, Tagavi D, Bearss K
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