Faigi Derman

Faigi Derman

Special Education Teacher

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  • About me

    Developmental (Floortime) Therapist

  • Education

    • Adelphi University

      2002 - 2004
      Master's of Science Developmental Disabilities
  • Experience

    • ICHUD

      Sept 2000 - Aug 2005
      Special Education Teacher

      Teacher of Self-Contained Special Education Classroom (Children with Learning Disabilities and Social/Emotional Challenges)

    • OMNI

      Sept 2006 - Aug 2008
      SEIT (Special Education Itinerant Teacher)

      Worked with Children with Developmental Delays, sensory processing difficulties, anxiety and selective mutism. Helped children integrate into mainstream classrooms, achieve social, emotional and academic goals and develop friendships with peers.

    • Early Intervention

      Jun 2008 - Aug 2009
      Developmental Interventionist

      Helping children with developmental delays including autism and sensory processing disorders achieve developmental milestones.

    • Private (Play for Thought)

      Sept 2009 - Jun 2014
      Floortime Therapist

      Worked with children and their families to achieve developmental milestones including pre-verbal communication, language, regulation, motor planning, auditory processing, visual spatial procesing and sequencing (executive function) as well as develop relationships with family and peers.

    • HASC

      Sept 2014 - now
      Special Educator

      training teachers in floortime techniques, working with groups of children with various developmental delays, working individually with children with various developmental delays

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Public School Teacher Certificate/Special Education (Permanent)

      New York State Education Department