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Erin Schifferdecker

Medford,NJ

Summary

Compassionate Occupational Therapist with experience in adult and pediatric neurological disorders, medically-based and school-based settings, training caregivers and staff for discharge and school advocacy, and facilitating development through play in all areas including the tub!

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Outpatient Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Rizza Miro And Associates LLC
05.2022 - Current
  • Supported children 2 -17 years old and their families to facilitate development of executive functioning, fine/gross motor skills, and self-help skills during daily routines
  • Consulted with parents on how to best advocate for their children within a school setting
  • Collaborated with client's school-based therapists to support carryover of skills
  • Provided sensory-based interventions to support regulation during ST run social skills groups

Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Voorhees Pediatric Facility
10.2021 - Current
  • Evaluated and provided services to children for consultative monitoring for UE splinting, medically-based OT sessions, and school-based sessions in community under company's contractor service "Voorhees Pediatric Rehabilitative Services"
  • Incorporated therapeutic self-care routines via ARJO tub to support patient's ADLs and daily needs while meeting OT goals for improved ROM, developmental dressing goals, or tolerance to novel sensory experiences and demands
  • Aided in mentoring, onboarding, and supervising level I and level II OT, PT, and ST students
  • Collaborated with nursing , respiratory therapists, rehab, and child-life to support parents in transitioning their children back to home environment, as well as supporting other children in their increasing needs for independence as children met developmental milestones
  • Support ST and respiratory in sensory-based feeding strategies, as well as incorporating respiratory techniques to improve respiratory sufficiency and tolerance to vent weaning, red capping, and decannulation of trachs
  • Provided between 25 to 35 hours of direct treatment depending on contracts, census, and therapist availability in addition to case managing 8 additional patients not on caseload to ensure their OT-based needs were being met every 90 days

Occupational Therapist

Fox Rehabilitation Services
10.2020 - 05.2021
  • Evaluated client's need for OT services within their homes based off their values, and beliefs within a city-based environment
  • Provided 32-40 hours of interventions to clients from center city philadelphia to strawberry mansion

Pediatric School Occupational Therapist

LARC School
09.2019 - 02.2020
  • Provided leave coverage for medically fragile children between pre-school and high school students
  • Transitioned onto 21-student caseload seen 2x/week with limited mentoring due to staffing complications
  • Aided in presenting Sensory Processing during staff in-service

Education

Master of Science - Occupational Therapy

Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
05.2019

Timeline

Outpatient Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Rizza Miro And Associates LLC
05.2022 - Current

Pediatric Occupational Therapist

Voorhees Pediatric Facility
10.2021 - Current

Occupational Therapist

Fox Rehabilitation Services
10.2020 - 05.2021

Pediatric School Occupational Therapist

LARC School
09.2019 - 02.2020

Master of Science - Occupational Therapy

Thomas Jefferson University

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