Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations
Lumiere Children's Therapy · lumierechild.com
Chicago
The job in short
Autism evaluation psychology.
Clinical
Details
- Found
- 22 d ago · posted 2024-02-29
- Location as listed
- Chicago, IL
- Role
- Behavioral Health / Therapist
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Testing Psychologist w/ Focus in Autism Evaluation
Psychological Testing with a Focus on Autism Plus ADHD, LD & Social-Emotional Evaluation
Lumiere Children's 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 social-emotional issues to children and adults.
You will provide diagnostic autism evaluations for clients 24-months old through adulthood.
Applicant Required Qualifications:
• Completion of an APA-accredited PhD or PsyD degree program in psychology
• Obtained licensure in Illinois
• Experience with and understanding of early child development
• Completed clinical ADOS-2 training and obtained certification to administer ADOS-2
• Recent (within past 6 months) experience providing multiple testing measures including cognitive, or development assessment measures, Such as the WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WJ-IV, Mullen Scales of Early Learning
• Focused study and/or clinical experience with autistic individuals
Preferred Qualifications:
• Training in the following additional assessment measures: ABAS-3, SRS-2, Mullen Scales of Early Learning, CPT-3, CATA, K-CPT, CVLT-3, 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 age-appropriate 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
• Hand-off 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 hand-off to treatment providers for future care (ABA therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, play therapists, psychiatrists, mental health therapists, etc.)
• Create, update, and maintain documentation, note-taking, 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
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