Tweety Yates, Ph.D.
Dr. Yates recently retired from the Special Education Department at the University of Illinois. She has continued to work on grant-funded projects at the University of Illinois and Vanderbilt University.
She is a member of the Pyramid Model Consortium Faculty and has been involved with materials development and training around the Pyramid Model for more than 20 years. Dr. Yates has focused her work primarily on social-emotional competence, caregiver–child interaction,
and early literacy.