Lauren Tobing-Puente, PhD361 East 19th Street New York, NY 10003 Phone: (917) 838-9274 Fax: (212) 982-9816
Email: services@drtobingpuente.com
Website: http://www.drtobingpuente.com
Dr. Tobing-Puente's services are provided at her office, located within Watch Me Grow. Dr. Tobing-Puente's clients may use Watch Me Grow’s facility, when clinically appropriate. |
PARENT
SUPPORT GROUP
Dr. Tobing-Puente runs a support group for parents of children diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorders (autism, Asperger's disorder, PDD-NOS) through the NYC Chapter of the National Autism Association (NAA-NYC) at Watch Me Grow. Groups are held the first Thursday of each month from 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm. Please see www.naanyc.org to RSVP. |
About Dr. Tobing-Puente
Lauren Tobing-Puente is a NYS Licensed Psychologist with over 16 years of experience with children and families. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Fordham University, where she specialized in child and family therapy. Her expertise in diagnosing and treating autism-spectrum disorders stems from working in a variety of treatment settings, using DIR©/Floortime™ (currently Level C2 in the DIR© Certification program) and ABA approaches. She has assessed and treated a variety of clinical populations across an array of settings, including homes, schools, hospitals, and community-based clinics.
Dr. Tobing-Puente has been in private practice for 5 years, which has been located at Watch Me Grow for 3 years. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Tobing-Puente is Senior Psychologist at the Rebecca School (a DIR©/Floortime™ school for children and adolescents with autism-spectrum and related disorders). The experiences of parents of children with autism-spectrum disorders have been the focus of Dr. Tobing-Puente's research studies, which have been presented at national conferences and published by professional scientific journals.
EVALUATIONS
• Psychological Evaluations: including those for the purposes of diagnosing autism-spectrum disorders and for assessment of intellectual (IQ) and adaptive functioning. Dr. Tobing-Puente is trained to use the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), a leading, highly reliable assessment tool for individuals suspected of having an autism-spectrum disorder.
• Psychoeducational Evaluations: including those in support of applications for schools. Includes intellectual (IQ), academic, personality, and behavioral assessment, and any other assessment tools, as needed
• Developmental Evaluations: to assess a child's level of overall development (including their cognitive, speech/language, motor, adaptive, and social-emotional development). |
FLOORTIME™
Floortime™ is a treatment approach developed for children with autism and related disorders of communicating and relating. It was developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Serena Wieder based on their Developmental, Individual Differences, and Relationship-based (DIR©) Model. Floortime™ seeks to build upon a child's capacities using a developmental framework, while acknowledging their individual differences (e.g., sensory processing, visual-motor capacities, etc.). Using this child-directed approach, therapists and parents aim to join with the child using his/her interests in order to build upon longer and more enhanced interactions. Dr. Tobing-Puente has received many years of training on the Floortime model from many of the leading clinicians in this field. |
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