Personal Statement
Dr. Laura Phillips is a pediatric neuropsychologist in the Learning and Development Center at the Child Mind Institute in New York City. She specializes in the comprehensive assessment of children and adolescents with a variety of neurodevelopmental conditions that impact their learning, social functioning, and behavior, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, language impairment, and autism spectrum disorder. She also works with children with co-morbid psychiatric conditions, including anxiety and depression, and uses her understanding of the complex interaction between students’ cognitive, academic, and social-emotional functioning to inform educational and treatment planning. In addition to evaluating children and adolescents, Dr. Phillips is actively involved in training graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at the Child Mind Institute. She also regularly presents about topics related to learning and development at workshops for parents, educators, and other stakeholders. After majoring in Psychology as an undergraduate at Duke University, Dr. Phillips received her PsyD in School-Clinical Child Psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She went on to specialize in pediatric neuropsychology in a two-year post-doctoral fellowship through the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Phillips is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology (ABPdN).