Telemedicine Speech Language Pathologist

• Jan 2021 - Present

Therapy and evaluation of school students in Pennsylvania via Google Meet Therapy and evaluation of school students in Pennsylvania via Google Meet

Speech Language Pathologist

• Mar 2020 - Jan 2021

Speech Language Pathologist

• Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

Teletherapy for elementary school in Rhode Island via the Emergency COVID Licensing.

Speech Language Pathologist

• Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

Speech Language Pathologist

• Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

Billerica Public Schools – Extended School Year Program• Engaged students from preschool to high school skills program in interventions to maintain skills, four with AAC.• Completed end-of-summer progress reports.

Speech Language Pathologist

• Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

Woodrow Wilson Elementary School/Miriam McCarthy Elementary School - Long-Term Substitute• Completed screenings and interventions for bilingual students, taking into account cultural background.• Created and completed effective and engaging in-class lessons for Language-Based Classrooms.• Administered effective therapy and visual supports for word-retrieval, language processing, language memory and other areas of speech, language, and pragmatics.

Speech Language Pathologist

• Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

Woodrow Wilson Elementary School/Miriam McCarthy Elementary School - Long-Term SubstituteFramingham, MA Mar 2019-Jun 2019• Completed screenings and interventions for bilingual students, taking into account cultural background.• Created and completed effective and engaging in-class lessons for Language-Based Classrooms.• Administered effective therapy and visual supports for word-retrieval, language processing, language memory and other areas of speech, language, and pragmatics. Show less

Speech Language Pathologist, Long Term Substitute

• Sep 2018 - Mar 2019

• Collaborated with team members to engage behaviorally-challenged students in their interventions.• Carried out effective interventions for students with complex diagnoses including autism, intellectual impairment, cortical visual impairment, and mood disorder

Speech and Language Pathologist

• Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

Needham Public Schools – Extended School Year Program • Worked on maintenance goals with students from Kindergarten to 8th grade.• Completed progress notes to support intervention in the next school year

Speech Language Pathologist

• May 2018 - Jun 2018

Newton Early Childhood Program• Worked on communication goals with students ages 3 to 5• Utilized pivotal response and play therapy.

Speech Language Pathologist

• Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

- Implemented and created therapy materials and interventions to address communication goals for children in 2nd grade and high school with various disabilities in two schools. - Effectively collaborated with general education teachers, special education teachers, and service providers using push-in and pull-out service delivery models. - Implemented and created therapy materials and interventions to address communication goals for children in 2nd grade and high school with various disabilities in two schools. - Effectively collaborated with general education teachers, special education teachers, and service providers using push-in and pull-out service delivery models.

Speech Language Pathologist

• Sep 2017 - Nov 2017

- Implemented and created therapy materials and interventions to address: expressive and receptive language, vocabulary development, written language, higher order language skills, pragmatics, fluency, functional communication, cochlear implants/hearing aids, and effective use of AAC devices for children in 6th through 8th grade, including students in substantially separate classrooms. - Administered thorough and disability-specific evaluations, scored and prepared corresponding reports, and presented findings clearly at team meetings. - Chaired annual review meetings and shared my expertise on what would best support the child. Show less

Speech Language Pathologist for Extended School Year Program

• Jun 2017 - Jul 2017

- Developed interventions for children ages 6 to 19 with varying disabilities and disability levels. - Implemented interventions to address: expressive and receptive language, vocabulary development, higher order language skills, pragmatics, articulation, functional communication, total communication, and effective use of AAC devices. - Developed interventions for children ages 6 to 19 with varying disabilities and disability levels. - Implemented interventions to address: expressive and receptive language, vocabulary development, higher order language skills, pragmatics, articulation, functional communication, total communication, and effective use of AAC devices.

Speech and Language Pathologist - Long Term Substitute

• Sep 2016 - Jun 2017

- Developed and implemented interventions for IEP and RTI students in Kindergarten to 4th grade in individual and small group pull-out and push-in sessions with speech, language, and social pragmatic disorders. - Administered thorough and disability-specific evaluations and considered each child’s unique ethnic background in their analysis - Clearly explained how disability affects academics and communication in IEPs. - Developed and implemented interventions for IEP and RTI students in Kindergarten to 4th grade in individual and small group pull-out and push-in sessions with speech, language, and social pragmatic disorders. - Administered thorough and disability-specific evaluations and considered each child’s unique ethnic background in their analysis - Clearly explained how disability affects academics and communication in IEPs.

Speech Language Pathologist

• Apr 2017 - May 2017

-Reviewed records, older reports, and IEP and planned appropriate initial and re-evaluations for high school students at City on a Hill Charter School in Roxbury. -Administered appropriate formal and informal assessments -Created thorough and clear evaluation reports for each student while considering dialectical and ethnic differences -Reviewed records, older reports, and IEP and planned appropriate initial and re-evaluations for high school students at City on a Hill Charter School in Roxbury. -Administered appropriate formal and informal assessments -Created thorough and clear evaluation reports for each student while considering dialectical and ethnic differences

Speech-Language Pathologist

• Sep 2009 - Jun 2016

- Organized, developed and provided a student orientation for students entering Minuteman who were identified as needing social-pragmatic, emotional, and/or communication support resulting in a 20% reduction in reported disruptive behavior problems compared to the year before. - Effectively supervised two graduate interns. - Developed and implemented interventions for students in individual and small group pull-out sessions with the following disorders: language-based learning disability, fluency disorder, word retrieval problems, reduced intelligibility, social-pragmatic disorder, NVLD, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, Autism. - Administered various evaluations, prepared corresponding reports, and presented findings at team meetings. - Utilized Dynamic Social Thinking Assessment based on the work of Michelle Garcia Winner, CCC-SLP. - Developed program for students to utilize video cameras as method of self-analysis of spoken and social communication. Video cameras were also utilized by students in the creation of social story videos with social-pragmatic disorders. - Designated department point person for the expansion of the training of staff and use of Kurzweill program for functional non-readers. Show less

Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Fellow

• Sep 2008 - Jun 2009

- Developed and implemented interventions for students in individual and small group pull-out sessions with language with the following disorders: language-based learning disability, fluency disorder, word retrieval problems, reduced intelligibility, social-pragmatic disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome. - Administered various evaluations, prepared corresponding reports and presented findings at team meetings. - Designed individualized phonemic awareness intervention for 7th grade non-reader - Developed and implemented interventions for students in individual and small group pull-out sessions with language with the following disorders: language-based learning disability, fluency disorder, word retrieval problems, reduced intelligibility, social-pragmatic disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome. - Administered various evaluations, prepared corresponding reports and presented findings at team meetings. - Designed individualized phonemic awareness intervention for 7th grade non-reader

Graduate Student Clinician

• Jan 2008 - Jun 2008

• Assisted with diagnostic assessments and consultations of children ages 3 to 19 with voice and resonance difficulties related to vocal nodules, vocal cord dysfunction, and velopharyngeal incompetence, laryngeal papillomas and vocal cord paresis/paralysis. • Prepared comprehensive weekly reports detailing evaluation results and recommendations for future treatment. • Assisted in treatment of young woman with history of vocal nodules utilizing resonance therapy. • Developed training program for interns in perceptual evaluation of voice samples using the CAPE-V Show less

Graduate Student Clinician

• Oct 2007 - Apr 2008

• Worked one-on-one with a 73-year-old woman with mild-moderate fluent aphasia from a right CVA for 80-minute sessions with a focus on discourse-level verbal expression and auditory comprehension. • Created and implemented independent use of compensatory strategies to improve language organization during verbal expression and increase recall of typically hard-to-retrieve words. • Worked one-on-one with a 73-year-old woman with mild-moderate fluent aphasia from a right CVA for 80-minute sessions with a focus on discourse-level verbal expression and auditory comprehension. • Created and implemented independent use of compensatory strategies to improve language organization during verbal expression and increase recall of typically hard-to-retrieve words.

Graduate Student Clinician

• Jul 2007 - Aug 2007

• Implemented group and individual treatment for teenagers and adults in two intensive four-week fluency programs which integrated stuttering modification and fluency shaping • Counseled, supported and encouraged individual clients during the desensitization process. • Provided guidance and feedback specific to client’s emotional needs and personality. • Implemented group and individual treatment for teenagers and adults in two intensive four-week fluency programs which integrated stuttering modification and fluency shaping • Counseled, supported and encouraged individual clients during the desensitization process. • Provided guidance and feedback specific to client’s emotional needs and personality.

Graduate Student Clinician

• Jan 2007 - Jun 2007

• Planned, designed and implemented language interventions for elementary and middle school students with the following disorders: language-based learning disability, social-pragmatic disorder, NVLD, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, traumatic brain injury. • Utilized Dr. Teresa A. Ukrainetz’ evidence-based narrative recall strategy called “stick-drawing” to improve narrative comprehension and retell ability of a student diagnosed with pre-natal brain trauma. • Administered hearing screenings to all students who required them. Show less

Paraprofessional

• Sep 2005 - Jun 2006

• One-on-one aid to a medically fragile, intellectually disabled 14-year-old girl with a GI feeding tube and mobility limitations. • Developed procedures that led to a decrease in negative behaviors and anxiety while increasing student’s sense of empowerment by teaching student functional communication skills and providing an easily accessible schedule • Facilitated social communication skills with peers within mainstreamed elective classes. • One-on-one aid to a medically fragile, intellectually disabled 14-year-old girl with a GI feeding tube and mobility limitations. • Developed procedures that led to a decrease in negative behaviors and anxiety while increasing student’s sense of empowerment by teaching student functional communication skills and providing an easily accessible schedule • Facilitated social communication skills with peers within mainstreamed elective classes.