Kelly Allen

• Researched, designed, and implemented life skills curriculum to clients with DD/ID. Responsible for communications with parents/clients, designed fliers.
• Coordinated, organized, and hosted a monthly advocacy group for clients with DD/ID. Responsible for acquiring meeting space, creating fliers, sent communication emails, scheduled speakers, ordered meals, accepting monthly membership dues, bookkeeping.
• Coordinated monthly officer's meetings for ruling board of members of advocacy group. Responsible for acquiring meeting place, creating agenda, hosting/running meeting, keeping minutes, encouraging board members to contribute ideas for future advocacy meeting speakers.
• Coordinated and organized quarterly social events. Responsible for acquiring event space, creating fliers, phone/email communications with clients, organizing menus, organizing catering, decorations, acquiring entertainment.
• Last year of employment spent as Billing Specialist. Responsible for accepting, and then refunding clients payments when our Summer Camp was shut down during the pandemic. Worked directly with county board of DD office to ensure all state and personal dollars were returned to the correct place, keeping immaculate spreadsheets, working with online programming resources.
• Last year of employment spent as Volunteer Coordinator for Glass City Beer Festival. Responsible for acquiring and organizing contact information for hundreds of local volunteers, assigning volunteer positions for various shifts, with on-the-spot reassignments when necessary during the event.
• Delivered clerical support by handling range of routine and special requirements.
• Answered incoming telephone calls, took down messages and provided information.
• Achieved management recognition by designing and implementing special projects to best serve and advocate for our clientele.
• Managed social media strategies for Instagram and Facebook.
• Analyzed problems, identified solutions and made decisions.
• Represented company at industry trade shows and had direct interaction with consumers.
• Built rapport with clients to facilitate trusting relationship and provide setting conducive to growth.

• Sensational Kids Daycare was my employer for student attending St. Patrick's of Heatherdowns Elementary School.
• One-on-One aide for 3rd grade student with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder.
• Responsible for reading, understanding, and implementing student's IEP, assisting in adapting general education lesson plans to accommodate IEP.
• Relieved classroom teacher during breaks and maintained order and structure in classroom.
• Encouraged dynamic and pleasant educational environment by promoting both gentle discipline and cooperation.
• Oversaw students in classroom and common areas to monitor, enforce rules and support lead teacher.
• Understood that students learned differently and adjusted teaching approaches to meet individuals' needs.
• Reported on student progress, behavior and social skills to parents.

Oct-Jan '11 – Para/Aide for a student with Autism – Kindergarten inclusive classroom (Holland)

• Responsible for obtaining, understanding, facilitating student's IEP goals.
• Provided assistance through daily routine, including behavior management.
• Created a binder organizing the student's PECS schedule, behavior charts, rewards, etc.
• Provided daily Sensory Breaks.

Jan-June '12 – Para/Aide for student with Oppositional Defiance Disorder – 1st grade inclusive classroom (Dorr)

• Responsible for obtaining, understanding, facilitating student's IEP goals.
• Provided assistance through daily routine, including behavior management.

2012/13 School Year – Para/Aide for non-verbal student with Downs Syndrome – MD Room (Holloway)

• Responsible for obtaining, understanding, facilitating student's IEP goals.
• Provided assistance through daily routine, including behavior management.
• Assisted/directed him through occupational therapy facilitated by the school's OT.
• Obtained a moderate knowledge of ASL to communicate and facilitate sign with student.
• Worked side-by-side with an ASL translator for further communication support, in congruence verbal cues and student's digital communication device.
• Assisted other Paras in the room with students with varying cognitive and physical needs.
• Delivered individualized and small-group instruction to reinforce skills taught by teacher.
• Provided Sensory Breaks.

2013-15 School Year - Para/Aide for student with autism through his 6th & 7th grade years - Shadowed/traveled with him to his gen.ed. classes.

• Responsible for obtaining, understanding, facilitating student's IEP goals.
• Provided assistance through daily routine, including behavior management.
• Provided Sensory Breaks.
• Assisted teachers with planning, preparation and distribution of classroom materials.
• Collated classroom materials to help teachers prepare for daily instruction and activities.
• Reported on student progress, behavior and social skills to parent.
• Graded tests and papers for teaching staff.
• Assisted Intervention Specialist in organizing and grading monthly testing binders for his entire caseload of students.