Field Placements: Developmental Services Worker

Diploma

A student may complete the following tasks:

• Work with children and adults with developmental disabilities, including autism in a variety of community and educational settings.
• Provide health care and administer medications.
• Teach skills to people with developmental disabilities.
• Perform functional behavioural assessments and implement behavioural interventions based upon these assessments.
• Implement augmentative communication strategies such as Boardmaker.
• Demonstrate effective and appropriate communication strategies and counselling techniques when working with people with developmental disabilities and their families.
• Facilitate community participation.
• Lead and implement person-directed planning.
• Report incidents of abuse of children and adults with developmental disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation.

For more information on placements for the Developmental Services Worker program, please contact:

Holly Duff, Field coordinator
hduff@fanshawec.ca
519-452-4430 x4184