Andrea Bendel

• Service Coordinator serving California Early Start - Birth to 3, and Lanterman - ages 3 to 6.
• Assess needs by meeting with clients and families.

• Develop and implement the IFSP, and IPP.

• Conduct IFSP, IPP, periodic review, transition, and exit meetings.
• Educate parents regarding developmental strategies.
• Arranging for appropriate service intervention with various vendors.
• Liaise between clients, families, and service providers.
• Provide updates and recommendations.

• Collaborate with service providers, agencies, and other professionals.

• Schedule appointments and services.

• Ensure timely delivery of services.

• Monitor client progress and service effectiveness.

• Adjust care plans as needed.

• Conduct regular check-ins, and maintain contact.

• Participate in team meetings.
• Write T-19 notes.

• Provided in-home therapy, addressing milestones for children from birth to three years old.
• Provided instruction in development, social, and behavioral areas.
• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive care for each child and family.
• Developed transition plans from early intervention services into preschool settings, as appropriate.
• Supported families by providing emotional support during difficult times.
• Tracked progress made by clients toward meeting established goals within IFSPs.
• Promoted positive relationships between parents and caregivers and children through play activities designed to foster social-emotional growth.
• Assessed the development of infants and toddlers using standardized assessments (DAYC-2).
• Monitored the child's progress and adjusted interventions as needed.
• Engaged families in goal setting process related to desired outcomes for the child's development.

• Administered diagnostic assessments, analyzed results from testing, and wrote comprehensive reports summarizing findings.
• Collaborated with classroom teachers, occupational therapists, and child psychologists to develop the student's Individualized Education Program.
• I wrote language, articulation, and fluency goals for each student's IEP.
• Provided therapy and diagnostic services using evidence-based practice in articulation, phonology, language, and fluency to students who were identified as having a speech-language impairment
• Collaborated with early childhood teachers, providing early childhood language lessons and activities in the classroom.
• Taught the 'Lively Letters' phonemic awareness sound and reading program for preschool through 2nd grade several days a week in the general education classroom.
• Developed Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs) for school-age children.
• Provided home-based oral motor and speech-language intervention for children with severe cognitive disabilities.
• Educated and counseled parents regarding their child's speech and language development.
• Developed individual or group activities or programs in schools to deal with behavior and speech problems.
• Provided ABA therapy in several school-based autism programs.
• Provided social skills therapy to school-based autism programs.
• Facilitated group therapy sessions addressing social pragmatic skills, or other areas of need, with multiple students at once.
• Provided consultation to educators and medical professionals, advising on communication strategies to better accommodate students with speech impairments.
• Maintained detailed records of student progress including notes about session activities, interventions used.
• Input daily therapy notes for Medicaid.