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