Ms.

Lindsay Birchall
Profile:

I am a highly motivated individual who is always looking for opportunities

for personal growth within my professional and academic career. I consider
myself to be an effective team player with excellent collaborative and
consultative skills. My experience includes behaviour consultation and
program coordination within a variety of settings and programs. I am
dedicated to providing children with increased independence, while focusing
on the familys development of skills.
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Employment:
Present

Cause & Effect

Sept 2007-

Providing behaviour consultation, as part of a multidisciplinary team (Alberta

Education -PUF funding, FSCD funding), for children with disabilities under
the age of 6. Consultation is provided to staff and families, within home,
community and school settings. Cause & Effect is a play based therapy
program.
Position: Behaviour Strategist
Duties: -Provide functional behavioural assessment and develop specific
strategies intended to increase the childs behavioural independence
-Provide parent training sessions to develop family independence
-develop, write and review IPP and ISP objectives
-Write yearly treatment summaries
-Case management (e.g. independent scheduling, maintenance and
organization of documentation, hours tracking, invoicing, etc.)
Autism Partnership
January 2013

January 2004-

Initially providing 1:1 therapy as a full time aide, from Jan 2004-Aug 2007.
Promoted to Psychology Team member in Sept 2007. Providing behaviour
consultation, as part of a multi-disciplinary team (FSCD Funding), for
children with autism. Providing multidisciplinary team coordination for
children and families. Consultation and training provided to staff, families
and other professionals within the home and community settings. Autism
Partnership is an ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis) program.
Position: Psychology Team
Duties: -provide functional behavioural assessment and develop specific
strategies intended to increase behavioural independence
-provide parent training sessions to develop family independence
-develop, write and review ISP objectives (focused on child and
parental development)

-supervise and assist with program goal tracking and

implementation, behaviour plan development and implementation and data
analysis and summary
-Correspondence with FSCD in the Calgary and Edmonton regions
(MDT preparation, MDT attendance, contract liaison, coordination with social
workers, provide documentation requests, parent support when navigating
specialized services, interpretation and implementation of FSCD policy,
coordination of other professionals documentation within Autism Partnership
and FSCD (i.e. SLP, OT, Psychologist, etc.)
-Provide Program Coordination/Behaviour Consultation in regions of
Alberta outside of Calgary (i.e. Edmonton, Red Deer)
-Staff training and skill development
-Administration duties
-Workshop presentations
-Coordinate and lead multidisciplinary clinics with family and child
-Participate in monthly multidisciplinary case conferences and case
conference clinics
-Case management (e.g. independent scheduling, maintenance and
organization of documentation, hours tracking, invoicing, etc.)
St Amant Centre Winnipeg, MB
September 2003 Dec 2003
Provide 1:1 therapy as a full time aide within an ABA program.
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Education: University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
April 2013 Present
Masters of Education in School and Applied Psychology (In
progress)
Cumulative GPA: 3.98
Academic Excellence Scholarship: Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship:
January, 2015
Brandon University, Brandon, MB
September 1998-May 2003
Bachelor of Science (4-Year Honors), Psychology
Major: Psychology
Minor: Sociology
Cumulative GPA: 3.23
Honors List Recipient: 2001 and 2002
Completed an under grad thesis as part of a fourth year honors degree
*thesis available upon request
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Professional Development:
-Social Group Planning and Programming- Cause & Effect- June, 2015
-Interobserver Reliability Data for ABA case study conducted by a collegue, July 2012
-Autism Partnership Behavioural Conference, Seal Beach, CA, March 2012
-Autism Spectrum Disorders: New Directions in Research, Clinical Practice and Policy,
Behavioural Science Conference, Banff Alberta March, 2010
-Policy and Procedures Committee Cause & Effect 2010 - 2012
-Social play group program Cause & Effect 2009-12
-Presenter at Cause & Effect professional development days Functions of Behaviour
October, 2009 & February, 2008
-Autism Partnership Behavioural Conference, Seal Beach, CA January, 2008
-Social/Sexual Issues and Developmental Disabilities Calgary, AB October, 2007
-Social Skills and Children with ASD - Temple Grandin, etc. U of C October, 2006