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.