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Shanghai, China

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Greater Boston Area

• Conduct research on the cognitive constructs underlying the comorbidity among dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD.• Assist in MRI scans for child participants.

Shanghai City, China

• Co-designed a family intervention and parent training program for Chinese preschool children with High-Functioning Autism.• Translated storybooks from English to Chinese that taught social skills.

Hangzhou, China

• Design and deliver 1-to-1 online English lessons for for 7 Chinese ESL learners (1 in elementary level, 6 in secondary level).• Skills and subjects taught include English reading comprehension, English listening comprehension, English grammar, English vocabulary, and TOEFL test prep.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Planned and led small-group interventions in reading and mathematic calculation.• Taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students with IEPs in a resource room setting.• Pushed in to inclusion classrooms by leading small-group instruction or assisting individual students.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Planned and led reading interventions targeting decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension to students with IEPs.• Co-led the reading intervention classroom with a mentor teacher.• Taught 4 hour-long lessons each day to students in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.• Tutored students on school assignments during morning check-in and work skills sessions.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Roles:• Designed and delivered intensive, individualized weekly reading intervention for 3 struggling readers.• Constructed semester goals and objectives based on the assessments and individual needs.• Progress monitor tutees on the learning objectives and made data-informed instructional decisions.• Assigned homework and communicated with family members for continuing supports at home.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Implemented a structured response-cost behavior modification system for 24 middle school students with ADHD as their primary diagnosis.• Co-taught 60-min middle school history lessons and 60-min learning strategies lessons twice a day.• Analyzed behavior data and authored treatment reports.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

School and Classroom Supports:• Determine the risk factors and protective factors of students in the classroom/school.• Design a class-wide plan that contains appropriate level of structure, physical arrangement, schedule, attention signal, rules, procedures, monitoring, and methods to increase appropriate behavior and decrease inappropriate behavior.Assessment:• Administer curriculum-based assessments to a student with disabilities (e.g. Key Math, Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-III).• Draft an evaluation report using curriculum-based measurement data.-Draft an Individualized Education Plan based on the evaluation report.Math Intervention:• Draft lesson plans that address skills including measurement, basic operations, and fractions.• Lead small-group or one-on-one lessons for students with disabilities during a 45-minute intervention period.• Provide professional support during an 80-minute math inclusion period.This practicum experience was the practical component of the following courses:• SPEDH 3777: School and Classroom Supports Teaching Students Academic Behavior Difficulties• SPEDH 3318: Assessment for Students with Severe and Persistent Academic and Behavior Difficulties• SPEDH 3328: Teaching Mathematics to Students with Severe and Persistent Academic and Behavior Difficulties: K-8

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Selected as the only student to participate in the Honors Program in Special Education.• Participated in a four-year experiment exploring the effect of mindset training (Brainology) on at-risk 4th-grade students' response to reading intervention (LiPS).• Analyzed qualitative data from teacher surveys.• Presented findings on a poster at the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Reading Intervention:• Provided 1-to-1 reading intervention to a second-grade student with developmental delay twice per week in a pull out setting.• Scripted and delivered 45-minute reading lessons that addressed phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.• Collected data through initial assessments and progress monitoring using DIBELS and other informal measures (e.g. Fry list).• Observed classroom instruction and interventions in inclusion and pull-out settings.• Compiled lessons and student performance in a final case study that received an A+ grade in the course.Behavior Intervention:• Collected Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence data on a second-grade student with ASD.• Constructed operational definitions for the student's off-task and on-task behaviors.• Conducted a Functional Behavior Analysis to determined the function of the student's off-task behavior.• Designed and implemented a behavior intervention plan to decrease off-task behavior and increase on-task behavior.• Used data in a changing-criterion design to demonstrate the effectiveness of this intervention.• Compiled information in a final case study that received an A grade in the course.• Delivered the behavior intervention plan to the student's teachers for future implementation.This practicum experience was the practical component of the following courses:• SPEDH 3358: Advanced Reading Methods for Students with Severe and Persistent Academic and Behavior Difficulties.• SPED 2310: Managing Academic and Social Behavior.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

The Youth Education Department at NICE provides a free, half-day summer tutoring program to prevent the summer slide for children from refugee and immigrant families.Roles:-Developed 40+ academic lessons and recreational activities for a two-month summer program.-Recruited and directly served 100 children of immigrants and refugees.-Led four 20-minute math learning centers per day.-Administered screening and exiting assessments.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Video-coded behavioral data of infants' hand movement as they interact with objects in different postures using Datavyu.• Assisted in a pilot study investigating the role of cognitive skills in infants' walking behavior.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Reading intervention:• Provided intensive, one-on-one reading intervention 2 hours/week for a second-grade, Tier II student with reading difficulties.• Planned lessons following an evidence-based program, Road to Reading.• Progress monitored the student using DIBELS.• Compiled lessons and student performance in a final case study that received an A+ grade in the course.This practicum experience was the practical component of the following course: SPEDH 3338: Teaching Reading to Students with Severe and Persistent Academic and Behavior Difficulties.

Master Of Education - Med, Mind, Brain, And Education

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Special Education And Teaching

Activities and Societies: • Honors Program in Special Education • Residential Advisor • Best Buddies • Next Steps Ambassadores.

High School Diploma