Jorge De Anda
Burbank,IL
Summary
Bilingual Special Education Paraprofessional proudly promoting 6 years working with students with all different types of disabilities either physical or social and emotional from early childhood to high school and beyond. Eager to support special needs children so they can build themselves a better future.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Special Education Spanish Interpreter.
East Aurora School District 131
Aurora, IL
11.2016 - Current
- Vast experience working with children from all ages and from different backgrounds.
- Provide simultaneous interpretation for Spanish speaking parents during IEP and 504 meetings from pre-k through high school.
- Provide simultaneous interpretation for students during physical, occupational, and speech therapies.
- Helped parents fill out documents in regards to social emotional studies as well as medical histories.
- Provide feedback to speech therapist about Spanish speaking students leves to communicate their wants and needs as well as administrate speech evaluations.
- Call parents who have children with IEPs or 504 with updates on how their child is progressing and how well he or she is using their accommodations.
- Provide simultaneous interpretation in crisis situation where a student has either harmed themselves or others and parents are called in to address the situation.
- Call parent to inform them of upcoming meetings and notify coordinators if parents need to change time or date.
- Receive calls from parents with questions in regards to students with special needs and assist with translation with emails or texts from parents.
- Maintained positive attitude and affirmatively communicated with each student.
- Offered student support through special accommodations, extra assistance and assessments.
- Collaborated with teacher to create customized classroom environment integral to students' needs.
- Worked with students in home environments using tailored behavioral plan.
Spanish Interpreter
Rehabilitation Institute Of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
06.2014 - 10.2016
- Provide simultaneous interpretation for Spanish speaking patients from all age groups with doctor check ups, speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, training for patients on maintaining their new medical equipment as well as whom to talk to if they break or misplace them.
- Worked with patients who participated in a month program that was five days a week for eight hours a day on how to manage their chronic pain syndrome(CPS). This program involved all forms of therapy as well as classroom instruction and visits to the psychologist and doctor.
- Work with social workers and psychologists during their sessions with a Spanish speaking patient.
- Travel to different clinics which had vast distance between them.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Worked with aphasia patients during their speech therapies to see if I could find any similarities to what the patient was saying and what he or she actually meant to say.
- Provided cultural input to speakers to help parties who did not speak similar languages communicate with and understand one another.
- Maintained message content, tone and emotion as closely as possible.
- Reviewed translated content for cultural sensitivity and use of universal Spanish.
- Molded translation to reflect intended meaning and audience reading level.
- Stayed current on new expressions and cultural changes impacting language translation.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
Education
Spanish Interpreter - Spanish Interpreter For School, Law, And Medical
Triton College
River Grove, IL05.2014
Skills
- Parental interaction
- IEP compliance
- Teaching and instruction
- Social and group settings
- Classroom management
- Documentation
- Verbal and written communication
- Autism and spectrum disorders
- Instructional support
- Behavior improvements
- Experienced with Microsoft office
Timeline
Special Education Spanish Interpreter.
East Aurora School District 131
11.2016 - Current
Spanish Interpreter
Rehabilitation Institute Of Chicago
06.2014 - 10.2016
Spanish Interpreter - Spanish Interpreter For School, Law, And Medical
Triton College