Services Provided
All services are typically provided by doctoral-level clinicians in the school psychology program under the supervision of core faculty who are Licensed Health Service Psychologists, Nationally Certified School Psychologists or Board Certified Behavior Analysts.
Consultation
Our clinicians develop and monitor behavior plans and interventions for individual students and classrooms. This includes traveling to schools in order to consult with teachers, school-based psychologists and other professionals to address students’ academic, social, emotional and behavioral concerns. Our clinicians:
- Conduct functional behavioral assessments
- Carry out manifestation determinations of children and adolescents with challenging behaviors
- Facilitate universal school-wide and class-wide academic screening
- Provide academic and behavioral data collection, interpretation and data management as specified by Every Student Succeeds Act
- Developing and monitoring behavior plans and interventions for individuals and classrooms
- Conducting school- or class-wide academic screening, data collection, interpretation and management
- Participating in school building-level problem solving teams
- Attend other other parent, teacher and multidisciplinary team meetings
- Perform Response to Intervention (RtI) assessment
Treatment and Interventions
Applied behavior analysis is available through the center. This empirically-supported therapy focuses on improving specific behaviors, such as disruptive and aggressive behaviors, social skills, communication, reading, academics, adaptive learning skills and many other behaviors children and youth need for success. Our clinicians also offer individual, family and group therapy for maximizing the academic success and social, emotional and behavioral functioning of children, teens and young adults. This includes providing parent training classes for individual parents and groups.
Assessment
We conduct comprehensive psychological and educational assessment and diagnostic services for children, teens and college-age students age –21 who are suspected of having learning problems or other difficulties or disabilities such as:
- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Learning disabilities
- Intellectual disabilities
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Mood disorders
- Disruptive behavior disorders
- Various forms of behavioral/emotional disorders
All diagnostic assessments can be used for special education eligibility evaluations, as specified in the Oklahoma Policies and Procedures in Special Education guidelines.