I am a Michigan-certified teacher with specialties in the areas of special education (with extensive experience with autism, CP, TBI, CVI, epilepsy, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory processing disorders, and AAC), assistive technology, Spanish language/culture, English, writing, grammar, linguistics, and life sciences. I also work as a medical speech language pathologist for a local hospital so I have practical knowledge of subject areas related to rehabilitation especially attention, memory, and...
I am a Michigan-certified teacher with specialties in the areas of special education (with extensive experience with autism, CP, TBI, CVI, epilepsy, ADHD, dyslexia, sensory processing disorders, and AAC), assistive technology, Spanish language/culture, English, writing, grammar, linguistics, and life sciences. I also work as a medical speech language pathologist for a local hospital so I have practical knowledge of subject areas related to rehabilitation especially attention, memory, and compensatory strategy training.
I am excited to tutor because I am a firm believer in fostering student's strengths. So much of our learning is focused on remediating or "fixing" what we perceive as "weaknesses," but by using a strengths-based approach, students become experts in skills that come easily and use strategies to tackle challenges in a different way. Success in any educational program requires 2 things: mastery of the content, and executive functioning (e.g., time management, planning, organization, initiation, attention, memory, and self monitoring/insight). I am uniquely positioned to support my students with both.
I have a master's degree in speech language pathology and audiology and over 10 years experience in a medical setting so I have both academic and practical knowledge of how the systems of living things work in harmony to support life. Additionally, I work as an educational docent for our city zoo, teaching school groups and visitors about the life that shares our planet.
I majored in Spanish language as an undergraduate, and I have Michigan teacher certification to teach Spanish. I also studied in Denia, Spain. After graduation, I taught at an elementary school with over 50% of the students from migrant, Spanish-speaking homes in a classroom of bilingual and monolingual Spanish-speaking students. As a speech language pathologist, I conducted bilingual Spanish speech and language evaluations and treatments for students in the migrant head start programs for 11 years.
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