Rebecca Nathanson | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Rebecca Nathanson
		James E. Rogers Professor of Education and Law


		Phone: 702 895-2323 Email: rebecca.nathanson@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1983 M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986 Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993

	Professor Nathanson earned her Ph.D. in special education at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993. She joined the UNLV special education department faculty in 2000 and the law school faculty in 2003. Professor Nathanson’s research focuses on examining the capabilities and limitations of child witnesses with disabilities. In the Boyd School of Law, Professor Nathanson directs the Kids’ Court School, a program aimed at educating child witnesses about the investigative and judicial processes. She also directs the education clinic in the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic.

	Areas of Expertise: Child Witness Children and the Law Education

	Selected Publications: REFERRED ARTICLES Nathanson, R., Crank, J.N., Saywitz, K.J., & Ruegg, E. (2007). Enhancing the oral narratives of children with learning disabilities. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 23(4), 315-331. Nathanson, R. (2006). Children with disabilities: Are they competent to testify? Journal of Family Violence and Sexual Assault, 22(1), 28-32. Nathanson, R. & Platt, M. (2005). Attorneys' perceptions of child witnesses with mental retardation. Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 23(1), 5-42. Nathanson, R. & Saywitz, K. (2003). The effects of the courtroom context on children’s memory and anxiety. Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 31, 67-98. Nathanson, R. & Crank, J.N. (2002). Examining the capabilities and limitations of child witnesses with disabilities. Family Law Psychology Briefs, 3(1), 1-9. Nathanson, R. & Crank, J.N. (2002). Children’s memories in the forensic context. Family Law Psychology Briefs, 2(4), 1-9. Saywitz, K., Snyder, L., & Nathanson, R. (1999). Facilitating the communicative competence of the child witness. Applied Developmental Science, 3(1), 58-68. --> More Publications (pdf)

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