Serving as the Whitworth Edward B. Lindaman Chair, 2007-2010.

Co-author of Very Young Children At-Risk and with Disabilities: A Formative Approach for Today's Children (in press), 4th Ed. Macmillan Publishing Company. Co-author of Effective Models for the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Applied Behavior Analysis (in press) New York:Routledge Publishing. 

Presentations include: "Serving Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Accommodations for High-Functioning Students with Autism or Aspergers Syndrome" and "A Model Classroom Using Direct Instruction to Remediate Child Academic Deficits while Training University Students," at the Northwestern Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Spokane (2009); "Biomedical Research Routes Concerning the Causes of Autism; Evidence, Concerns, Qualifications, and Promising Directions," at the Geneva Centre for Autism International Symposium, Toronto (2008); "Implementing Direct Instruction Curriculum for Summer Remediation in a Teacher Training Model Classroom," at the Evidence-Based Practice, Scientifically-Based Instruction, and Educational Effectiveness Conference, Virginia (2008); "A Model for Academic Remediation Using Direct Instruction in a Campus Summer School Program," at the International Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago (2008).

Received a Special Recognition Award for service to the Spokane Guilds' School (2006); received the 2004 Excellence in Teacher Preparation Award from the Washington State Board of Education. Helped draft the Spokane Guilds' School's successful application for a $500,000 appropriations bill for research on serving infants and toddlers with disabilities. The result of this project was a new text Williams edited entitled Directions in Early Intervention and Assessment (in press).

Book chapters include: co-author, "Biological and genetic factors in human development," in Handbook of Psychosocial Characteristics of Exceptional Children (1999). Journal articles include: "Suggested behaviorial interventions in the classroom to assist students prenatally exposed to drugs" in Behavioral Interventions (1998).

Member of Committee to Revise Special Education Endorsement and Early Childhood Special Education Endorsement, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction,(2007); coordinator, Special Education Program (1998-present); co-chair, sub-committee on Standard 6 Governance for NWCCU (2006-present).

Established and oversees the School of Education's Host Family Project, which pairs education students with families who have children with disabilities. The project was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a best practice for teacher preparation.