Child Psychologist

Contact - 9311809772 / kyadav@momsbelief.com

Role & Responsibilities

-        To perform time to time parent counselling and grievance redressal.

-        Recognize clients that can benefit from ABA and counsel the parents for enrolment.

-        Plan and conduct ABA assessment either on your own or with support of a supervisor.

-        Take daily cold probe data for the client.

-        Make assessment reports and IEP for the client either on your own or with support of a supervisor.

-        Manage negative behaviour of the learner and maintain instructional control. Ensure no person or property is damaged by the learner.

-        Report any problem behaviours of special concern to supervisors and plan and run a behaviour intervention plan.

-        Collect data such as frequency, duration, latency to track progress of the child.

-        Manage materials required for therapy. Coordinate promptly with supervisors and team if and when new material is needed.

-        Coordinate with Special Educators, ST and OT from time to time so there's no overlap or clash in therapy goals.

-        Ensure skills when achieved by the learner are generalised and kept in maintenance. Contact supervisors to add new goals in the plan.

-        Manage group sessions if they are planned at the centre.

Other Skills

-        Must have good understanding of psychology, especially reward and principle.

-        Is well versed and confident in using Google Sheets and Docs, even on the phone to ensure timely data correction.

-        Should be quick in their responses to ensure instructional control in the learners and keep negative behaviours in check.

-        Knows and is not ashamed of singing and dancing as part of therapy.

-        Is physically fit enough to engage in physical play with learners.

-        Is creative to make best use of available resources to use in therapy.

-        Is open and inviting to the learner yet strict to maintain instructional control.

-        Is sufficiently loud especially while praising the learner. Can instil over enthusiasm.

-        Can address regular queries from parents. Can differentiate which issues described by parents or school need immediate attention.

-        Knows how to ignore tantrums when required. Gives little to no reaction when being hit, spit on, or laughed at by the learner.

-        Is up to date with their knowledge in the field of ABA and is willing to learn more.