Experience

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND INC
• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Speech-Language Pathologist CFY

  • Sep 2023 - Present


NYC Department of Education

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Speech-Pathology Intern

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  - Providing daily pull-out and monthly push-in language therapy services to preschool students in self-contained classrooms presenting with social communication deficits and mixed expressive-receptive language disorders secondary to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). - Supporting the acquisition and generalization of functional communication gains for AAC users via language facilitation techniques and collaboration with teachers, support staff, and parents. Administering the Preschool-Language Scales (PLS-5) in combination with informal language and play-based assessments to assess receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skills. - Generating session notes and semesterly reports containing present levels of performance (PLOPs), short and long-term goals, and recommendations for inclusion in IEP reports. Show less



Brooklyn College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Clinician

  • Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  - Completed 25 observation hours and 167 supervised clinical hours in the diagnosis and treatment of speech, language, cognitive-communication, hearing, and swallowing disorders. - Implemented 1:1 sessions with pediatric clients addressing expressive-receptive language delays, phonological processing deficits, speech sound disorders, and emergent literacy delays. - Applied a life participation approach to 1:1 and group therapy sessions with young adult and geriatric clients addressing speech, language, cognitive, and social-pragmatic deficits secondary to acquired neurogenic disorders including aphasia and acquired apraxia of speech (AOS). - Administered the Preschool-Language Scales (PLS-5), Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool-3 (CELF Preschool-3), and informal play samples to holistically evaluate client competence and performance across domains of language. Show less



A Friendly Face Autism Treatment Services

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)

  • Nov 2018 - Jul 2021

  - Provided 1:1 Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) between the ages of 5-13 through in-home placements. - Supported clients in the acquisition of daily life skills including self-advocacy and pragmatic functionality while supporting the carryover of learned functional communication strategies via AAC modeling and collaboration with clients and their families. - Provided 1:1 Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) between the ages of 5-13 through in-home placements. - Supported clients in the acquisition of daily life skills including self-advocacy and pragmatic functionality while supporting the carryover of learned functional communication strategies via AAC modeling and collaboration with clients and their families.



The Sensory Studio

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

  - Shadowed therapy sessions with toddler, preschool, and school-age clients and developed mock session notes describing session targets, intervention methods, and client progress. - Facilitated intake sessions by guiding children through play in the sensory gym using developmentally-appropriate activities and engaging consistently with relevant language stimuli. - Researched speech and occupational therapy topics for use in studio newsletters and blogs. - Shadowed therapy sessions with toddler, preschool, and school-age clients and developed mock session notes describing session targets, intervention methods, and client progress. - Facilitated intake sessions by guiding children through play in the sensory gym using developmentally-appropriate activities and engaging consistently with relevant language stimuli. - Researched speech and occupational therapy topics for use in studio newsletters and blogs.