Dr. Robinson is the District Principal of the Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disorders (POPARD). POPARD is a Ministry of Education service, providing educational, behavioral, and psychological support services to schools in British Columbia. Georgina oversees a diverse staff that includes teachers, psychologists, behavior analysts, and speech and language pathologists. Georgina has worked in the field for over twenty years as a school psychologist, an educational/behavioral consultant, a district counselor, and as a special education teacher.
Dr. Robinson is also a visiting professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. Courses taught at UBC include: Inclusion of Children with Special Needs, Interventions for Students with Special Needs, Psychological Consultation, and Cognitive Theories. She also provides supervision to School Psychology graduate students on practicum and internship. Her research interests include: supporting families of children with special needs; stress, coping and empowerment; and development of a new screening instrument for ASD.
SAASI-HFS: The School-Age Autism Screening Inventory for High Functioning Students
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Session: Session #6