Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) Roles and Responsibilities

LSSP Team Eduardo Pena – LSSP Intern Ben Herrera – LSSP Trainee Christi Van Syoc – LSSP

What we do: For students suspected of having Autism or an Emotional Disturbance, we test and we test HARD Write awesome evaluation reports with ridiculously appropriate recommendations Assist with behavior support team by waving our magic wand

What we don’t do: We do not diagnose We do not prescribe We actually do not have or use a magic wand

Hobbies We like to read the law We prefer ARD meetings that last at least 3 hours We pine for pre-ARD’s and PLC’s We enjoy writing 27 page reports no one will read We love answering where a student will go once they qualify TESTING, TESTING, TESTING

Emotional Disturbance (ED) The TAC 465…blah, blah, who cares states that the assessment of emotional or behavioral disturbance, for educational purposes, using psychological techniques and procedures is considered the practice of psychology. So basically, only an LSSP can evaluate a student for ED.

Autism (AU) We participate in initial autism evaluations We evaluate even when we have a diagnosis from a doctor I’m sure the student is actually nothing like Rain Man or Sheldon Cooper Everyone has a little AU in them, but we follow the DSM-V criteria