Beth Harmon Email & Phone Number

Newton, MA, US

Massachusetts, United States

www.bethharmon.com

San Carlos, California, United States

Social Skills Coach for K-8 social emotional focused, project-based learning Charter School in San Carlos, CA. I provided inclusion support for K-4 grades and provided full class lessons inspired by Michelle Garcia Winner's Social Thinking work and the Zone's of Regulation. I pulled-out small groups and individuals for sessions for learners K-8 who needed.

Menlo Park, CA

• Provide AAC, expressive, receptive, pragmatic and organizational speech and language therapeutic services across diverse settings including: o Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, CA (October 2013- Present) o MVLA High.
• Deliver AAC, articulation, fluency, phonological and expressive/receptive/pragmatic speech and language therapeutic services to children and adults at the Menlo Park in a private practice setting
• Complete AAC, speech and language evaluations in the private practice setting
• Design, program and maintain high-tech and low-tech Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) language systems for non-verbal and partially verbal students including static display communication boards, low-tech.
• Provide educational courses at CSHA and San Jose State AAC classes

• Provided speech and language services to students of various levels and needs ages 4-22 with various diagnosis including Autism, MR and Fragile X
• Provided alternative communication modalities via AAC methods such as PECS, visual supports using Boardmaker, static devices (e.g. GoTalk20+), dynamic devices (PalmTop, iPad applications)
• Designed protocol and matrix for the use of an iPad as a communicative device
• Aided in the crafting of a social learning iPad application
• Instruct various types of speech therapies including social skills, grammatical language, expressive language, receptive language, voice and articulation therapies
• Modified learning materials and group games to be accessible to and meaningful for students of various educational levels

• Provided push-in services for 4 year-old child with PDD-NOS and engaged in floor time activities with a 1year-old child with PDD-NOS
• Encouraged and assisted in the facilitation of successful social interactions
• Enhanced receptive language skills and encouraged the expansion of expressive language

• Facilitated group and individual social pragmatic language sessions for clients aged 5 to 27 diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other social-emotional disorders.
• Created and executed lesson plans to directly teach and practice essential social skills
• Summarized daily activities and semester progress
• Assisted in running two week-long private social skills camps on Martha’s Vineyard
• Attended multiple conferences on Asperger’s Syndrome

• Evaluated, planned and implemented individual speech therapy sessions for students at the Ivy Street School in Brookline, MA, aged 15 to 22 with traumatic brain injury and/or other neurological, psychological.
• Conducted assessments and developed and executed treatment plans in the outpatient setting for pediatric clients exhibiting various impairments including Autism Spectrum Disorders, and various communication.
• Documented daily and monthly progress

• Evaluated and developed treatment goals in the public school setting for grades K through 8
• Planned and executed individual and group therapies for fluency, articulation, expressive language, receptive language and social pragmatics skill language
• Summarized semester progress

• Created and executed lesson plans for group pediatric pragmatics sessions
• Conducted assessments, developed semester and weekly plans, and implemented therapy for individual adult client with aphasia
• Aided in running the Community Connection Aphasia Group for the Aphasia Community Resource Center at Boston University
• Collaborated to create and execute lesson plans using thematically related language
• Facilitated efficient communication among group members of various severities

• Trained and managed eight student workers
• Created and edited study abroad supplements for student distribution
• Planned promotional events for 400 study abroad students
• Organized paperwork and database logistics for over 800 students

• Provided educational services and medical care to eight students aged 16 to 22 with severe special needs
• Assisted students with daily living activities
• Created and maintained communication boards for students
• Collaborated with team to create and execute lesson plans
• Attended and participated in Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meetings

Ms, Speech Language And Hearing Sciences

Ba, Italian

Italian Language And Literature