Behaviour Specialists

What is a Behaviour Specialist? 

We are psychologists who work with students identified with significant behavioural challenges.

Who do Behaviour Specialists support? 

We support HRCE’s students by working collaboratively with their families/caregivers, staff, and school teams. Additionally:

• We support the school-based programming of individual students

• We support groups of students (i.e., class-wide or school-wide behavioural consultation/intervention)

What do Behaviour Specialists do? 

Every day is different. We support students, teaching staff, and school teams by:

• Assessing school-based behavioural functioning (both individuals and groups of students)

• Developing, implementing and evaluating non-aversive, school-based behavioural programming (both individuals and groups of students)

• Providing consultation about behavioural and individualized academic programming (both individuals and groups of students)

• Supporting school teams with interpretation and reporting of psychological assessment results

• Providing professional development to teaching staff, EPAs, and administrators

• Attending meetings with community agencies, when appropriate

• Work collaboratively with the Behaviour Support Teachers (BSTs) to implement behavioural programming to support school functioning.

Where do Behaviour Specialists work? 

Each of the four Behaviour Specialists support two School Learning Communities (SLC).  While we are based out of HRCE’s Central Office, we work primarily in schools, with students, and teaching/educational staff.  We also provide professional development to school and educational support staff.

Behaviour Consultant/Specialist 

• Prior to a Referral to our Behavioural Specialists, development, implementation and monitoring of a plan by a School Psychologist is required.

• Consent for Services required. 

• Services Data will be automatically generated once Referral for Services is set to final. 

• Behaviour Specialist will update the status for service. 

• 
  Click ‘Referral for Services’ from within student’s ‘Documents’ 

• Select ‘Behaviour Consult/Support Services’ (NOT Behaviour Intervention Teacher Support)

• Intervention Teacher Support) in the Referral Drop-Down Menu.

• Complete referral with detailed  information.

• Set Document to ‘Final’ and send message to specialist/service provider using the ‘Staff User ID’ prior to clicking ‘Accept’ 

• Send an email in Outlook to the Behaviour Specialist indicating that a referral form has been submitted. Copy the Principal.

• Scan the signed Consent Form and upload to ‘Consent Forms and Information Sharing Forms’ in Confidential Documents.