Program Intern Autism Center Summer 2025
Program Intern Autism Center Summer 2025
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About Child Mind Institute
Were dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. Weve become the leading independent nonprofit in childrens mental health by providing goldstandard evidencebased care delivering educational resources to millions of families each year training educators in underserved communities and developing tomorrows breakthrough treatments.
Position Details:
The Autism Center at the Child Mind Instituteis pleased to offer an 11week summer internship foran accomplishedundergraduate students.The internship is designed for studentsinterested in careers in child mental health medicine education and special education public health neuroscience and other related areas. The internship provides a comprehensive experience in the autism and related disorders. The Autism Center at the Child Mind Institute is an integrated research lab and clinical center dedicated to supporting toddlers children adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders and related challenges.
The 2024Clinical Summer Internship atChild Mind Institutebegins onMondayJune2 2025and ends onFridayAugust 15 2025.This internship experience is a fulltime 40hour per week experience and selected interns are expected to be available for the duration of the internship.
The intern will work fulltime at the Child Mind Institute in midtown Manhattan easily accessible bypublic support for public transportation may be available.
This is a highly competitive unpaid internship. Therefore we strongly encourage applicants to investigate stipend programs through their college placement offices and to pursue independent college study creditsfor this experience. We can provide any requested documentation to assist students in getting stipends and college credit.
Learning Opportunities:
In the Autism Center research lab the intern will have exposure to diagnostic assessments including the evaluation of developmental cognitive language and socialemotional functioning and the use of gold standard autism diagnostic instruments including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale (ADOS2 and Autism Diagnostic InterviewRevised (ADIR).
Writing treatment and testing progress notes.
In the clinical practice the intern will be exposed to evidencebased treatments for autism including Applied Behavior Analysis Project Impact and social skills curricula such a LEGObased therapy and PEERS
Opportunities to shadow clinicians during treatment and evaluation sessions and provide direct support to clinicians during clinical treatment sessions.
Attend interdisciplinary clinical/research team meetings.
Interns also participate in numerous didactics provided by clinical faculty which span a variety of topics and include mentorship in preparing for graduate or medical school as well as a career in the mental health field. The weekly didactics will also include review of assigned seminal readings in the field.
You Will:
Complete a literature review under the mentorship of a faculty clinician and prepare a presentation for theChild Mind Institutecommunity at large at the end of the internship.
Interns assist in completing special projects assigned by faculty clinicians and by providing general office support.
Supervised research and clinical experiences with children and adolescents with autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders Coleading treatment groups.
Writing treatment and testing progress notes and receiving feedback from supervisors.
You Have:
Current undergraduate student with a background in psychology.
Eligibility to participate in an offsite internship program.
Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
Availability to participate in a fully onsite internship.
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We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race color religion creed sex (including pregnancy childbirth breastfeeding or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age national origin ancestry citizenship status marital status military or veteran status physical or mental disability genetic information medical condition or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws.
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Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Volunteer
