Program Supervisor of Suffolk Christian Academy's Student Support Program

• Jul 2020 - Present

Educational Therapist

• Jul 2003 - Present

Served as NILD Search and Teach Therapist for students K-5, implementing cognitive strategies and methods to target student's deficit areas using the 9 clusters that comprise the S&T teach tasks. Acted as NILD Educational Therapist for 3rd-12th grades, instituted cognitive and mediation strategies, methods, and interventions that promote stimulation of the cognitively weak areas as assessed by a WISC-V or other approved academic evaluation tool.• Interpreting initial education/psychosocial assessment from psychologist, creating an individualized education intervention plan, developing learning accommodations, and closely monitoring struggling learners' academic progress.• Equipping struggling students with effective learning strategies that can be utilized in varied environments.• Graduating struggling learners from intervention program when formal assessments, informal assessment, progress monitoring, and academic grades indicate that student has evidenced their abilities as an independent learner. Show less

Educational Therapist

• Jul 2003 - Jul 2003

Elementary School Teacher

• Jul 2003 - Jul 2008

Instructed 3rd-grade courses in Language, Reading, Spelling, History, Science, Health, Math, and handwriting. Designed and submitted weekly lesson plans. created curriculum guides, instructional goals, lesson objectives, and provided input for the overall scope and sequence of ASCI accreditation. • Served as NILD Search and Teach (S&T) Therapist for K-5-2nd grade - implemented cognitive strategies and methods to target student's deficit areas using the 9 clusters that comprise the S&T teach tasks. Show less