Brian Williams
Riverside,CA
Summary
- Thoughtful School Psychologist with 14 years of experience guiding DHH students at all age levels. Supportive listener with creativity and sensitivity when treating individuals with varying psychological concerns. Supportive and tactful navigator of family dynamics, leading parent meetings with cultural awareness and objectivity.
- Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
School Psychologist
California School For The Deaf - Riverside
Riverside, CA
08.2010 - Current
- Work individually and as a member of the assessment team to conduct triennial, academic, and special request psychological assessments, and to prepare written reports of findings.
- Provide recommendations for instructions strategies and remediation in keeping with assessment findings.
- Conduct in-depth psychoeducational assessments of deaf and hard of hearing students both at CSDR and as referred by individual districts to the THRIVE Assessment Center.
- Provide diagnosis/es and recommendations when appropriate based on assessment findings. Present assessment results at IEP meetings to parents, students, principals, instructional/residential staff, and district representatives. Supervise interns as needed.
- Assist staff and parents with accommodating student's cognitive, academic, communication, behavioral, and social/emotional abilities at school.
- Provide both formal and informal consultative services to school staff, and also to parents and professionals in the community.
- Attend bimonthly staff meetings to review/discuss student files, as well as weekly staff meetings to review relevant issues related to the department and/or CSDR.
- Review student files prior to assessments to determine appropriate measures to be administered. Present information from student files to the Assessment Team.
- Meet with department principals, cottage supervisors, social workers, and school counselors to discuss individual students who have been referred to the IDT/MTSS team.
- Facilitate referral to assessment. Improve professional competence through participation in staff development activities and provide in-services on relevant topics to staff as needed.
Educational Diagnostician
New Mexico School For The Deaf
Santa Fe, NM
10.2008 - 08.2010
- Conducts individual psycho-educational assessment in the areas of intellectual ability, achievement, and adaptive behavior.
- Collaborates with parents, teachers, and ancillary service providers to complete all documents.
- Observes and works with students.
- Obtains written parental consent for all evaluations conducted at NMSD, including those conducted by all ancillary service providers.
- Coordinates and collaborates with student’s instructional and support services team for evaluation, assessment, implementation of recommendations, and adherence to special education laws, rules, and regulations.
- Works collaboratively with other assessment personnel, such as speech-language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, and school psychologists, counselors, and social workers to determine eligibility for special education services.
- Writes team-based, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary evaluation and re-evaluation reports, including individualized instructional recommendations that support the development of appropriate student Individual Education Programs (IEPs).
- Provides input to the IEP committee regarding student’s academic strengths and weaknesses based on psycho-educational testing.
Education
Specialist in School Psychology -
Gallaudet University
Washington, DCMaster of Arts - Developmental Psychology
Gallaudet University
Washington, DCAssociate of Arts - Boatbuilding
Cape Fear Community College
Wilmington, NCBachelor of Arts - Psychology
East Carolina University
Greenville, NCSkills
- Fluent in ASL
- Interdisciplinary Meetings
- BIP Understanding
- Cultural Competency
- Enrichment Programs
- Good Listening Skills
- Document Coordination
- IEP Compliance
- IEPs
- Individual and Family Support
Additional Information
Currently in training with Dr. David Martin to become a professional trainer with the Feuerstein Institute. How to incorporate Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment systematic approach to teaching students how to learn. This involves teaching them to learn from direct exposure to the environment, teaching skills and strategies for thinking, analyzing, and problem solving. Subgoals include: remediating cognitive deficiencies; teaching concepts, operations & relationships; building an intrinsic need system through habit formation; for example, the need to compare, to analyze, to check work; developing students' insights into their own thought processes; and helping students perceive themselves as active generators of knowledge; developing a sense of competency.
Timeline
School Psychologist
California School For The Deaf - Riverside
08.2010 - Current
Educational Diagnostician
New Mexico School For The Deaf
10.2008 - 08.2010
Specialist in School Psychology -
Gallaudet University
Master of Arts - Developmental Psychology
Gallaudet University
Associate of Arts - Boatbuilding
Cape Fear Community College
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
East Carolina University
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