Cathy L. Waldman Email & Phone Number

Therapy and evaluation of school students in Pennsylvania via Google Meet

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

Teletherapy for elementary school in Rhode Island via the Emergency COVID Licensing.

• Billerica Public Schools – Extended School Year Program
• Engaged students from preschool to high school skills program in interventions to maintain skills, four with AAC.
• Completed end-of-summer progress reports.

Framingham, MA

• Woodrow Wilson Elementary School/Miriam McCarthy Elementary School - Long-Term Substitute
• Completed screenings and interventions for bilingual students, taking into account cultural background.
• Created and completed effective and engaging in-class lessons for Language-Based Classrooms.
• Administered effective therapy and visual supports for word-retrieval, language processing, language memory and other areas of speech, language, and pragmatics.

Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

• Woodrow Wilson Elementary School/Miriam McCarthy Elementary School - Long-Term SubstituteFramingham, MA Mar 2019-Jun 2019
• Completed screenings and interventions for bilingual students, taking into account cultural background.
• Created and completed effective and engaging in-class lessons for Language-Based Classrooms.
• Administered effective therapy and visual supports for word-retrieval, language processing, language memory and other areas of speech, language, and pragmatics.

Weston, Massachusetts, United States

• Collaborated with team members to engage behaviorally-challenged students in their interventions.
• Carried out effective interventions for students with complex diagnoses including autism, intellectual impairment, cortical visual impairment, and mood disorder

Needham, MA

• Needham Public Schools – Extended School Year Program
• Worked on maintenance goals with students from Kindergarten to 8th grade.
• Completed progress notes to support intervention in the next school year

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

• Newton Early Childhood Program
• Worked on communication goals with students ages 3 to 5
• Utilized pivotal response and play therapy.

Boston, MA

- Implemented and created therapy materials and interventions to address communication goals for children in 2nd grade and high school with various disabilities in two schools.- Effectively collaborated with general education teachers, special education teachers, and service providers using push-in and pull-out service delivery models.

Winchester, MA

- Implemented and created therapy materials and interventions to address: expressive and receptive language, vocabulary development, written language, higher order language skills, pragmatics, fluency, functional communication, cochlear implants/hearing aids, and effective use of AAC devices for children in 6th through 8th grade, including students in.

Wilmington, MA

- Developed interventions for children ages 6 to 19 with varying disabilities and disability levels.- Implemented interventions to address: expressive and receptive language, vocabulary development, higher order language skills, pragmatics, articulation, functional communication, total communication, and effective use of AAC devices.

Belmont, MA

- Developed and implemented interventions for IEP and RTI students in Kindergarten to 4th grade in individual and small group pull-out and push-in sessions with speech, language, and social pragmatic disorders.- Administered thorough and disability-specific evaluations and considered each child’s unique ethnic background in their analysis- Clearly.

Woburn, MA

-Reviewed records, older reports, and IEP and planned appropriate initial and re-evaluations for high school students at City on a Hill Charter School in Roxbury.-Administered appropriate formal and informal assessments-Created thorough and clear evaluation reports for each student while considering dialectical and ethnic differences

Lexington, MA

- Organized, developed and provided a student orientation for students entering Minuteman who were identified as needing social-pragmatic, emotional, and/or communication support resulting in a 20% reduction in reported disruptive behavior problems compared to the year before.- Effectively supervised two graduate interns.- Developed and implemented.

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Developed and implemented interventions for students in individual and small group pull-out sessions with language with the following disorders: language-based learning disability, fluency disorder, word retrieval problems, reduced intelligibility, social-pragmatic disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome.- Administered various evaluations, prepared corresponding.

Waltham, MA

• Assisted with diagnostic assessments and consultations of children ages 3 to 19 with voice and resonance difficulties related to vocal nodules, vocal cord dysfunction, and velopharyngeal incompetence, laryngeal.
• Prepared comprehensive weekly reports detailing evaluation results and recommendations for future treatment.
• Assisted in treatment of young woman with history of vocal nodules utilizing resonance therapy.
• Developed training program for interns in perceptual evaluation of voice samples using the CAPE-V

Boston, MA

• Worked one-on-one with a 73-year-old woman with mild-moderate fluent aphasia from a right CVA for 80-minute sessions with a focus on discourse-level verbal expression and auditory comprehension.
• Created and implemented independent use of compensatory strategies to improve language organization during verbal expression and increase recall of typically hard-to-retrieve words.

Greater Boston Area

• Implemented group and individual treatment for teenagers and adults in two intensive four-week fluency programs which integrated stuttering modification and fluency shaping
• Counseled, supported and encouraged individual clients during the desensitization process.
• Provided guidance and feedback specific to client’s emotional needs and personality.

Brookline, MA

• Planned, designed and implemented language interventions for elementary and middle school students with the following disorders: language-based learning disability, social-pragmatic disorder, NVLD, Asperger’s Syndrome.
• Utilized Dr. Teresa A. Ukrainetz’ evidence-based narrative recall strategy called “stick-drawing” to improve narrative comprehension and retell ability of a student diagnosed with pre-natal brain trauma.
• Administered hearing screenings to all students who required them.

Brookline, MA

• One-on-one aid to a medically fragile, intellectually disabled 14-year-old girl with a GI feeding tube and mobility limitations.
• Developed procedures that led to a decrease in negative behaviors and anxiety while increasing student’s sense of empowerment by teaching student functional communication skills and providing an easily accessible.
• Facilitated social communication skills with peers within mainstreamed elective classes.

M.S. Sp., Communication Disorders

H.S. Diploma

B.A, Honors Program Psychology With Concentration In Experimental Psychology