Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations
Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations
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Testing Psychologist w/ Focus in Autism Evaluation
Psychological Testing with a Focus on Autism Plus ADHD LD & SocialEmotional Evaluation
Lumiere Childrens Therapy is seeking applications for a Psychologist. The focus of this position is to provide psychological evaluations and diagnosis of autism with a small amount of ADHD Learning Disorder Trauma and other socialemotional issues to children and adults.
You will provide diagnostic autism evaluations for clients 24months old through adulthood.
Applicant Required Qualifications:
- Completion of an APAaccredited PhD or PsyD degree program in psychology
- Obtained licensure in Illinois
- Experience with and understanding of early child development
- Completed clinical ADOS2 training and obtained certification to administer ADOS2
- Recent (within past 6 months) experience providing multiple testing measures including cognitive or development assessment measures Such as the WISCV WAISIV WJIV Mullen Scales of Early Learning
- Focused study and/or clinical experience with autistic individuals
Preferred Qualifications:
- Training in the following additional assessment measures: ABAS3 SRS2 Mullen Scales of Early Learning CPT3 CATA KCPT CVLT3 Stroop Test Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement
Skills required evaluation process including:
- Identification of symptoms and symptom categories
- Collection of background information
- Considerations for differential diagnoses
- Selecting test measures that are ageappropriate and relevant to the specific inquiry
- Test administration and data collection
- Scoring interpreting and analyzing data
- Diagnosis formulation
- Formulating and customizing specific treatment recommendations
- Writing comprehensive psychological reports
- Providing feedback to client and/or family
- Handoff to treatment providers
Additional services and duties may include:
- ADHD evaluation (ages 6 through adulthood)
- Specific Learning Disorder evaluation (ages 6 through adulthood)
- Outreach & partnership management of treatment providers in the autism community
- Contribution and organization of autism resource page
Job Responsibilities:
- Complete evaluations
- Communicate with clients family members and previous/ongoing treatment providers to gain data for evaluations
- Coordinate care with and handoff to treatment providers for future care (ABA therapists speech therapists occupational therapists play therapists psychiatrists mental health therapists etc.
- Create update and maintain documentation notetaking and additional administrative duties as needed
Next Steps:
- Please apply for the position
- Please prepare two redacted/HIPPA compliant examples of psychological reports
- Please prepare two letters of recommendation
Employment Type
Full-Time
