ELIZABETH PORTILLO

• Conduct individual therapy sessions, averaging 30 sessions per week
• Schedule patients accordingly to their availability and therapist driving times.
• Adapt the different needs of attention with patience in pediatric age groups from 2 - 21 years old
• Control personalities of diverse population groups: Spanish and English bilinguals and cultural backgrounds
• Provide and show strategies to clients to help maximize their potential to master articulation delays, expressive/receptive language skills, and fluency and voice disorders, using and understanding gestures and facial expressions, and cognitive skills
• Accurately document progress notes, therapy session, and patient responses to treatment.
• Update Plan of Care charts to reflect met and mastered goals
• Create summary updates for health care insurances
• Speak to parents and caregivers to interpret scores throughout the progress of each session and advise them to continue practicing and reinforcing at the home.
• Communicate regularly with the supervising SLP regarding patient progress, concerns, and suggested modifications to treatment plans.
• Build rapport and trust with patients and their families, fostering a supportive and encouraging therapeutic environment.
• Teach patients and caregivers techniques to support therapy goals at home.

• Deliver speech articulation and language therapy sessions as outlined in the treatment plan created by the supervising SLP.
• Maintained clean and safe work area and adhered to safety standards to provide nurturing environment for patients to thrive.
• Prepared materials and equipment for use in clinic and schoolrooms to meet therapy objectives.
• Maintained compliance with documentation requirements and deadlines.
• Conducted Speech Therapy for EPISD at 4 different schools through Rio Grande as a contractor for the Head Start program
• Followed all clinic agency and school policies and procedures.

Advanced position Workers' Compensation Clerk II

Advanced position STS Peer Trainer

Work-Study

• Recorded 90 weekly incoming mail correspondence on Excel for statistical purposes demanded by the state
• Assisted the Confidential Records Department with filing and organizing Personnel Records
• Scanned employee Tenure Binders of 1000 pages and other requested projects
• Audited Workers' Compensation files through the Banner System