Regina Yando

Regina Yando, Ph.D. (Sunny), has long been active in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In 1968, as a member of the faculty of Harvard University, she assumed the directorship of Psychological Research and Training on a Kennedy-funded multidisciplinary University Affiliated Training Grant conducted at the Fernald State School. It was during that period that a respite care program, which eventually became Delta Projects, was started by one of the Harvard students in training. Although she functioned in an advisory role early in the formation of Delta Projects, it was not until 1983 that she became a full member of the Board of Directors.

Dr. Yando has also served as an expert witness for the US Department of Justice, Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division, responsible for monitoring State Institutions caring for individuals with intellectual, developmental, and emotional disabilities.

Moving from the faculty of Arts and Science to the faculty of Medicine at Harvard, Dr. Yando assumed the position of Chief of Psychology at the Judge Baker Guidance Center/Children’s Hospital Medical Center, a position she held for a decade.

Currently, she is looking forward to retirement and has moved to part-time professorial faculty status at Harvard Medical School.