School Psychologist - Dighton Elementary

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: The effective school psychologist communicates clearly, appropriately, and understandably with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and colleagues. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: - Designs and carries out diagnostic studies of individual clients by analyzing developmental and social history. - Evaluates sensory, motor, language, perceptual, attentional, cognitive, affective, attitudinal, interpersonal, behavioral and vocational capabilities. - Consults with teachers, parents, and others as necessary. - Prepares IEP's and prescriptions based on diagnostic evaluations. 5- Implements those aspects of individual IEP's which are the responsibility of the school psychologist. - Counsels individual students, groups of ·students, and their families to encourage self-exploration, self-understanding, and self-confidence. - Assists school personnel in the determination of priority of learning objectives for pupils, and identifies and promotes techniques which will help children attain these objectives. - Provides school personnel with classroom management techniques. - Promotes and establishes remedial and special help needed by students if it is not currently available. - Collaborates with school and other relevant professional persons, school, community, and voluntary agencies to improve continuity, integration, adequacy of programs and services for children with special needs. - Makes effective use of state agency regulations or private resources to support, extend, and supplement local school services for children with school needs. - Provides consulting services on organizational problems and structures as they affect the learning climate of the school. - Cooperates in the supervision and training of interns and students in school psychology. - Shares professional knowledge through presentation of papers at conferences, speaking engagements and articles for journals. - Serves on committees for establishing and/ or improving community services for children, and acts as a liaison between school and community services. - Is actively involved in providing support services for students during emergency or crisis situations. - Performs other duties as may be required by the principal, children with school needs. - Provides consulting services on organizational problems and structures as they affect the learning climate of the school.