lumiere childrens therapyChicago, IL
Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations
Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations
Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations
lumiere childrens therapyChicago, IL
5 days ago
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse CentersOffices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians)Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists
Apply for this role →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-2Recent (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
Also on the board Same function, level within a rung
Level
Senior
Location
Chicago, IL
Occupation
Psychologists, All Other
Industry
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers
Posted
5 days ago