Garry Martin (Psychology)

    A former center on the Colorado College varsity hockey team, Garry Martin graduated from CC in 1962.  Four years later, after receiving his Ph.D., Garry began his current academic career.  Ten years later, he was a full professor and winner of his first institutional award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research in the University of Manitoba.

    Professor Martin has since become a major figure in applied behavior analysis in Canada, applying principles of learning and motivation to his research.  This research has focused largely on the developmentally disabled, but his published work spans the problems of autistic children, epileptics, and those with cerebral palsy; time management; rehabilitation medicine; programs to teach behavior-management principles and procedures to professionals; and the prevention of emotional abuse in children in organized sports.

    Central to Professor Martin’s work has been the development of extensive behavior-modification programs for the profoundly and severely retarded, as well as special-educational programs in institutional and community settings.  Martin has published over 60 papers, and multiple training manuals and books.  Garry has also done extensive work in the areas of athletic performance, coaching and sport psychology, and in the fields of adjustment and everyday living. He received an Honorary Degree from CC in 1989. (4/30/01)