Kathryn O'Brien
Chicago,IL
Summary
I am a Minnesota native school-based occupational therapist with 3 years of professional pediatric experience excited to return to my home state. I am passionate about utilizing a neurodiverse affirming lens with strengths based interventions. I strive to make our public school system more inclusive to diverse learners and value relationships over compliance. I am a fierce advocate for my students and work best in a multi-disciplinary team environment. I specialize in early childhood, responsive feeding therapy, sensory integration, and DIR Floortime.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Occupational Therapist
Community Consolidated School District 15
08.2021 - Current
- Evaluate student's educational needs and create strengths based goals to address growth areas
- Consult with parents, teachers, social workers, SLPs, PTs, and paraprofessionals to best support student's unique classroom functioning
- Create parent and staff trainings to promote best practice standards
- Develop district wide protocol for supporting children with feeding concerns
- Complete home and daycare visits to encourage carry over of skills
- Maintain accurate and detailed data on student's progress towards goals
Occupational Therapist
North Shore Pediatric Therapy
03.2021 - 08.2021
- Provided client-centered and occupation based treatment and feeding therapy to clients ages 2-12 with various diagnoses
- Collaborated with a multi-disciplinary team to best support client outcomes
- Used evidence based assessments to evaluate client's areas of growth and created thorough reports for caregivers and insurance reimbursement
- Assisted in training new OTs
- Worked closely with the Clinical OT Director to encourage the use of function based assessments and goal writing across clinic locations
Education
Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy -
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA12.2020
Bachelor of Science in Behavior and Health -
Boston University
Boston, MA05.2018
Skills
- Leadership
- Reporting and documentation
- Responsive Feeding Therapy
- DIR Floortime
- Sensory Processing
- Treatment implementation
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Clinical reasoning
- Pediatric mental health
Certification
- Certified Occupational Therapist NBCOT #449590
- Licensed Occupational Therapist Illinois #056.014070
- Licensed Occupational Therapist Minnesota #107380
Timeline
Occupational Therapist
Community Consolidated School District 15
08.2021 - Current
Occupational Therapist
North Shore Pediatric Therapy
03.2021 - 08.2021
Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy -
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science in Behavior and Health -
Boston University
- Certified Occupational Therapist NBCOT #449590
- Licensed Occupational Therapist Illinois #056.014070
- Licensed Occupational Therapist Minnesota #107380
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