Speech-Language Pathology, Intern at Cambridge Elementary School, VT – January – March 2018

In this position, I observed and led language therapy sessions. I planned and executed teaching techniques specified to each student’s IEP, including creating goals for students and designing materials that best suited each student’s needs and curriculum. Sessions included articulatory work and social language development and incorporated class material ranging from upper-level concepts such as race and ethnicity to younger-level concepts of time and weather. An experience that I was particularly passionate about was working one-on-one with a student with autism spectrum disorder who was learning about race and immigration in class. For this student, the social understanding of race was a challenge. I successfully broke the concepts down into more manageable segments and assisted the student in developing the social tools needed to access those concepts and relate them to the student’s own life. I attended and partook in student screenings and IEP meetings to identify student disabilities or challenges and to formulate goals and accommodations for each student. We worked with students from ages 3 to 12 with a variety of diagnoses including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, IDDs, ADD and ADHD, anxiety, stuttering, apraxia, frontal lisp, and others.