Internships
Current Opening:
Verbal Behavior Therapist: Part-time Teaching Position for Teen with Autism (Start ASAP; 1 year commitment)
Seeking: Undergraduate students interested in joining a team of verbal behavior therapists who teach language and living skills to Aaron, a Niskayuna teenager and high school student with autism. Hard-working, highly motivated, organized, intellectually curious and creative individuals eager to teach and willing to learn. Coursework or interest in pursuing career in teaching children with autism, psychology, education, social work or speech pathology a plus.
Responsibilities: Pair with Aaron to establish therapist as part of an improving set of conditions. In formal teaching sessions and at play while at home and in the community, after school and on weekends, expand use, flexibility and repertoire of Aaron’s language, and foster independent living and socialization skills, by manipulating environment and fading prompts. Run probe and teaching trials through all verbal operants. Take, correlate and analyze data. Attend and contribute to regular team meetings and monthly consults with program supervisor. Analyze and implement proper procedures to reduce any behaviors that interfere with learning.
Training Provided: Three (3) instructors who began in our program as Capitol Region undergraduates have gone on to obtain their doctorates in behavior analysis, psychology and education, and two of these individuals currently act as consultants to the program and will be actively involved in training the new staff. Training to include full day seminar on teaching theory and practice and hands on training by team consultants and current teachers.
Compensation: $10/hour during 5 week training period, increased to $15/hour thereafter and $20/hour for team leader.
To apply: login to HireU
Username: ID number
Password: last name (all lowercase; if you are a first-year student, capitalize the first letter of your last name)
Select “job/internship” search and enter “Kieselstein” into the organization name box.
General Information:
To provide students with practical experience, the department offers a number of internships that can be completed for independent study credit. Recently, students have worked in a center for autistic children, a battered women´s shelter, advertising agencies, biofeedback clinics, employee assistance programs, residential facilities for emotionally disturbed children, and a suicide phone line. Others have run groups for shy teenagers at a local high school, worked in day care centers or elementary schools, and consulted at local businesses.
You can do an internship for academic credit, providing you do 100 hours of work at the site during the term along with associated reading of the relevant literature and substantial writing to be arranged with your supervising professor. Paid internships (such as summer jobs) cannot receive course credit. The Psychology Department has created an Internship Handbook that describes the procedures for initiating an internship experience, as well providing contact information for numerous internship sites in the area. An Internship Contract must be completed and returned to the department secretary, before any internship is initiated.