Andrea Candida Lobo

• Treated a diverse pediatric patient caseload.
• Managed small staff of speech therapists, organized schedules, payroll, and oversaw all evaluations and reports.
• Educated patients and family members about various topics such as communication techniques or strategies to cope with and avoid personal misunderstandings.
• Provided clinical services to students with language disorders, phonological disorders, articulation disorders, fluency disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, pragmatic deficits, autism spectrum disorders, and attention-hyperactivity deficit disorders, cerebral palsy, aphasia, and dysarthria.
• Collaborated with a special education team during weekly child case study meetings to discuss, strategize, and implement care delivery strategies, and wrote diagnostic reports.
• Carried out group lessons targeting fundamental speech and language skills in a kindergarten classroom setting on a weekly basis, for children.
• Offered daily lesson plans to target treatment objectives while also developing home-programming activities.

• Provided in-services to speech department on varied speech and language topics for the purposes of continuing education.
• Performed speech-language and cognition diagnostic evaluations for patients suffering from delayed speech and language, stuttering, misarticulations, cleft lip and palate, cerebral palsy, dysarthria. , aphasia, mental retardation, down’s syndrome, autism, laryngectomees, hearing impairment.
• Worked in various setup,such as Jss hospital, Sneha kiran spastic society, Learning disability clinic, Sahana special school, JSS polytechnic college, (India) for differently able.
• Dedicated to timely and thorough completion of documentation.
• Teaching how to use communication pragmatically, use of phonological awareness to the child.
• Provide screening, evaluation, and treatment for adults to geriatric population.
• Stuttering assessment and Treatment.
• Cerebral palsy assessment and treatment.
• Design and execute appropriate and individualized treatment plan for a variety of diagnosis including aphasia, apraxia, and cognitive –linguistic disorders.

• Evaluates and treats patients in a private practice setting with varied communication disorders.
• Therapeutic treatment includes improving articulation, motor planning, feeding, receptive/expressive language, reading/writing comprehension, fluency, auditory processing, public speaking and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders.
• Provides in-services, family education and consults with schools in the community to assist them in identifying children with speech language delays.
• Services included assessment (testing), practice, monitoring and generalization of language / communication skills.
• Supporting the student with a team approach, that involves - communication with teachers, parents, to discuss background knowledge students might need and assisting with visual supports and strategies that may need to aid communication.
• Provided adequate supporting worksheets and follow up meetings to monitor generalization of communication goals.

• Provided information on speech improvement techniques and non-verbal communication methods.
• Documented developments and regressions in patients' speech, making treatment adjustments based on latest information.
• Educated patients and family members about various topics such as communication techniques or strategies to cope with and avoid personal misunderstandings.
• Facilitated improvement in clients' control of breathing mechanisms, jaw and facial muscles.
• Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
• Proven ability to develop and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
• Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
• Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.
• Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.

Provided teletherapy services to learners, with the use of digital curriculum and ready-to-go therapy worksheets (specific to learner's needs).

• Encouraged the caregivers during sessions to schedule enough time to engage during sessions.
• Involved parents with communication strategies and worksheets, to help them interact with the child. Provided feedback on how the parents can interact with the child to promote specific communication skills.
• Introduced the older learners to social groups, making the sessions more informative, interactive, and challenging.
• Scheduling IEP and collaborating involving the team to implement a communication plan for the individual.

• Treated a diverse pediatric patient caseload.
• Managed small staff of speech therapists, organized schedules, payroll, and oversaw all evaluations and reports.
• Treated each patient according to a written plan of care to meet predetermined goals.
• Collaborated closely with other healthcare providers.
• Directly supervised clinical students and support staff, including certified and licensed assistants, technicians and volunteers.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
• Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
• Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.
• Created and implemented treatment plans intended to address speech and language issues in collaboration with other clinical professionals.

Worked to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication,

and cognitive communication.

• Identified students at risk with early intervention for later problems considering referrals from teachers and parents.
• Involved parents with communication strategies and worksheets, to help them interact with the child.
• Provided feedback on how the parents can interact with the child to promote specific communication skills.

• Served as Sole SLP for entire facility

Assist in the early recognition and prevention of educational problems.

• Monitor student progress and make informed, timely educational decisions.
• Conduct speech, language, screenings, and diagnostic evaluations to determine the need for clinical services.
• Participate as a team member in the comprehensive evaluation, review, and reevaluation process. Participate in the development of student IEPs.
• Consult with parents, teachers, administrators, and others concerning the needs of students and special services that are available.
• Assist teachers in the development and implementation of curriculum modifications and appropriate classroom strategies.
• Refer students and their families to appropriate community agencies and services.
• Cooperate with agencies serving students and their families.
• Provide therapy, follow-up, and/or consultation based on student IEPs.
• Motivate students through effective communication and evaluative feedback.
• Demonstrate awareness of the needs of students and provide for individual differences.
• Set high expectations for student achievement and behavior.
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal relationships with others.
• Establish and maintain a positive climate for learning through appropriate classroom

• Assistance in addressing linguistic and metalinguistic foundations of curriculum that are embedded in their speech goals
• Supporting students to contribute significantly to literacy achievement.
• Identification of accurate and appropriate student needs in areas of fluency, language, articulation, and social and emotional concerns.
• Being integrally involved in providing intervention that is appropriate to the age and learning needs

of each individual, selected through evidence-based practice.

• Being equally responsible for collaboration with teachers, parents, and other professionals, to provide the best support for students and work towards progress in their goals.