Christina Grahl
Delran
Summary
Compassionate behavior specialist with extensive experience in guiding child development and supporting families. Proven ability to foster effective communication and implement tailored intervention strategies for children with developmental challenges.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Behavior Specialist
Virtua Pediatrician Early Intervention Program
Voorhees, NJ
10.2002 - Current
- Develop individual family service plans tailored to each family's and child's unique needs.
- Collaborated with mudisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery and support child development.
- Conducted assessments to identify developmental delays and monitor overall developmental progress in areas important to family's and recommended effective strategies for improvement.
- Established strong relationships with families, providing guidance and resources for ongoing support at home.
- Informed parents of evaluation methods used to guide progress and document progress.
- Educated parents on best practices for managing difficult behaviors at home, fostering consistency across settings.
- Supported toddler's social-emotional, cognitive and communication development in thier natural environments
- Administer and complete comprehensive initial evaluations to determine eligibility for Early intervention services for child aged Birth to three years old with varying developmental delays.
RDI CIT and Certified Consultant
KidsAhead Consulting
Medford, NJ
10.2006 - 12.2011
- Provided coaching, and modeling to help parent of children diagnosed with Autism to become their child's primary guide of development, using step-by-step, developmentally appropriate goals
- Guided parents how to guide their child to seek out and succeed in truly reciprocal relationships, while addressing key core issues including
- structure and facilitate dyad interactions with children who were developmentally at a similar level to promote social reciprocity
- Planned, organized and ran an ongoing structured social group to facilitate communication, social reciprocity and peer interactions.
- Conducted comprehensive assessments to provide a complete picture of strengths and weaknesses, co-occurring conditions and developmental obstacles and create an individualized treatment plan
Education
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
Rutgers University
Camden, NJ05-2000
Skills
- Coordination with colleagues
- Providing modeling and coaching to help families reach their goals for their child
- Identifying and intervening on problem behaviors
- Effectively guiding children to advance thier abilities and skills
- Administering state mandated evaluation to children Birth-3 years old and writing comprehensive reports
- Verbal and written communication
Timeline
RDI CIT and Certified Consultant
KidsAhead Consulting
10.2006 - 12.2011
Behavior Specialist
Virtua Pediatrician Early Intervention Program
10.2002 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
Rutgers University