Meet Dr. Christine Caselles
 

Dr Christine Caselles has worked with CSAAC since 1996.  As the director of the Intensive Early Intervention program, she led CSAAC’s participation in the NIMH-funded Lovaas Multi-site Replication study.  Dr. Caselles received post-doctoral training in behavioral intervention and discrete trial teaching at the Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention at UCLA.  She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. She has been a licensed psychologist in Maryland since 1998.  Dr. Caselles currently serves as a psychologist in CSAAC’s CAPDD program and develops behavioral, instructional, and social programs for preschool and school age children with autism spectrum disorder.  Dr. Caselles has clinical interests in social skills programming for high-functioning children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, instructional programming for visual learners, and school integration for children with autism spectrum disorders.

Meet Dr. Larissa Reynolds

 
Dr. Larissa Reynolds has been a licensed psychologist in Maryland since 1998.  She earned her Ph.D in clinical psychology from Louisiana State University in 1996.  She completed a pre-doctoral internship through Brown University and postdoctoral fellowship in the Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.    She was trained in discrete trial teaching and behavioral programming at the Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention at UCLA.  Dr. Reynolds has been developing behavioral programs for young children with autism through CSAAC since 1997.  In this position, she has worked with many families and children with Autism and collaborated with several local school systems.  Her primary clinical interests are in preparing preschoolers with Autism for school, reducing disruptive behaviors that interfere with learning, staff and parent training, communication and social skills training, and facilitating successful transitions into school.