Experience

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  Winter pediatric therapy

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2016

  Speech language pathologist

  - Evaluated and treated children with a variety of communication and feeding disorders (90% of caseload included families that spoke a language other than English) - Provided Hanen Centre® programs and collaborated to translate parent handouts and presentations into Spanish - Provided trainings to multi-disciplinary groups of professionals - Led bilingual assessment team, top evaluator (average of 120 per year), and also provided supervisory support for treatment planning of dual-language learners - Analyzed most common diagnostic combinations in the department and developed a training for medical coding compliance Show less

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  The parish school

  Aug 2016 - May 2021

  Resource specialist and early childhood speech language pathologist

  - Trained a team of 17 early childhood professionals, built a department-wide common language, training, and consultative feedback system for all hires to maintain department wide standards - Partnered with Speaker’s Bureau, providing training and consultations to area school and clinics - Provided parent training programs with a mixture of live, virtual, and face-to-face presentations - Created cross-platform messaging to promote integration of goals across schooland community contexts. - Initiated a collaborative intervention plan for a dual-language and hard-of-hearing student, that resulted in the inclusion of interpreters and bilingual para-educators in the classrooms as well as a school-wide upgrade in technology - Supervised graduate interns and para-educators in implementing therapy goals and strategies for each client - Featured in Children's Learning Institute Connect with Me series, modeling strategies to support social-emotional development - Synthesized research on topics related to early childhood development for staff - Provided diagnostic speech, language, and feeding evaluations and integrated with other developmental domains to form measurable and appropriate intervention goals - Custom-designed services for 50 children with developmental delays to overcome their loss of education during the pandemic Show less

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  The carruth center

  May 2018 - May 2021

  Speech language pathologist

  - Created literacy intensive programs based on individual assessment data - Conducted assessment and materials review to promote culturally sensitive and inclusive intervention supports - Provided intensive treatment to children with childhood apraxia of speech within an inter-disciplinary program

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  Habla cadabra slp

  Jan 2019 - now

  Co-founder and speech language pathologist

  - Managed design, production, and shipping of Spanish resources to US and 5 other Spanish-speaking countries - Designed web, social media, and trade show marketing materials to promote products, resulting in a 5x increase of sales with the last six months - Presented at State and National conferences on integration of research with real-word implementation on topics related to bilingualism, regulation, adverse childhood experiences, and speech sound disorders - Wrote research reviews and syntheses, focusing on translational science for speech-pathology professionals - Provided in-home and contract-based evaluation, supervision, and therapy services for children with communication disorders Show less

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  Specialized assessment & consulting

  Jul 2020 - May 2021

  Speech language pathologist

  - Provided evaluations and therapy to children in public and charter school settings

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  University of houston

  Aug 2020 - Dec 2022

  Research assistant and speech language pathologist

  - Worked in the DUAL Language Lab to evaluate, collect, and analyze data for a bilingual language development study - Trained and supervised undergraduate students in bilingual assessment - Provided treatment and supervision/training for bilingual intervention study - Managed and trained research assistants in data collection, coding, and fidelity tracking as well as language analysis software - Completed additional graduate level coursework: Research in Heritage Language Education, Advanced Research Methods, Scientific Inquiry in Health Professions, Inferential Statistics in Psych/Educational Research Show less