Kelly Hughes
Columbus,OH
Summary
Skilled Early Intervention Service Coordinator with a proven track record at Help Me Grow, adept in service coordination and demonstrating exceptional organizational skills. Excelled in creating impactful early childhood education programs and fostering strong family support systems. Renowned for developmental disabilities awareness and effective parent communication, significantly enhancing community service delivery.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Early Intervention Service Coordinator
Help Me Grow
Columbus, OH
01.2014 - Current
- Supervisor: La’Tonya Castro
- Phone: 614-456-1435
- Facilitated communication between families and team members regarding the IFSP process.
- Assessed and identified service delivery challenges and opportunities within local area.
- Demonstrated knowledge of best practices related to early intervention programming for young children with special needs.
- Established and maintained relationships to meet community needs and avoid service duplication.
Co-teacher
Upper Arlington Lutheran Preschool
Columbus, OH
08.2009 - Current
- Supervisor: Phyllis Amato
- Phone: 614-451-3736
- Met with parents to discuss students' progress and review areas requiring improvement.
- Facilitated cooperative learning activities between students during class time.
- Helped develop behavior management plans for individual students when necessary.
- Created and enforced child-based, hands-on curriculum to promote student interest and receptive learning.
Private ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapist
08.2011 - 08.2012
- Supervisor: Hannah Wann
- Phone: 604-505-6214
- Collected information through observation, interviews or surveys.
- Ensured all therapy sessions were conducted in a safe, supportive environment conducive to learning.
- Performed behavioral interventions to teach communication, social and daily living skills and reduce problematic behaviors in home, community and school settings.
Lead Teacher
The Gathering Place
08.2008 - 08.2009
- Provide direction and training of classroom staff
- Setting policies and procedures of classroom
- Lesson planning
- Scheduling of daily events
- Parent conferences, to keep parents informed and up to date about their child’s development and growth
- Classroom management
- Supervisor: Suzie Stawicki
- Phone: 614-436-1117
Private ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapist
08.2007 - 08.2008
- Provide ABA for a 3 year old with PDD/NOS (pervasive development disorder)
- Help with programs and data collection
- Supervisor: Kelli Schweitzer
- Phone: 614-776-5957
- Monitored progress of clients through data collection, graphing, and analysis of behavior change strategies.
- Designed, developed and updated specific social or communication programming for individual clients according to presenting needs.
- Implemented Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) techniques to increase functional behaviors and decrease maladaptive behaviors.
Bookstore Assistant
Xenos Christian Fellowship
09.2003 - 09.2005
- Customer service
- Running cash register
- Deposits
- Inventory
- Check and enter books into the inventory spreadsheet, price and shelve books
- Responsible for overall aesthetics of store
Co-teacher of part day program with three year olds
Meadow Park Children’s Center
08.1998 - 05.2000
- Lesson planning
- Scheduling of daily events, including field trips and visitors to the classroom
- Parent conferences, to keep the parents informed of what was going on in their child’s classroom
- Classroom management
Co-teacher of three-year-old classroom
Meadow Park Children’s Center
11.1990 - 08.1992
- Lesson planning
- Scheduling of daily events, including field trips
- Open houses, scheduling, preparing for and speaking at
- Parent conferences, to keep parents informed and up to date about what was going on in their child’s school
- Fundraisers
- Classroom management
Lead two-year-old teacher
N. Broadway Children’s Center
06.1990 - 11.1990
- Responsible for starting two-year-old program at the center
- Setting up the classroom, ordering supplies and furniture, deciding what policies and what the tone of the class would be like
- Home visits, to make children and parents comfortable before the start of school
- Lesson planning
- Scheduling of daily events
- Parent conferences, to keep parents informed and up to date about what was going on in their child’s school
- Classroom management
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Child Development
Bluffton University
01.1990
Skills
- Service coordination
- Professional ethics
- Assessment skills
- Child development
- Family support
- Continuous professional development
- Organizational skills
- Developmental disabilities awareness
- Special education expertise
- Early childhood education
- Social-emotional learning
- Parent communication
References
Available upon request
Relatedexperiences
- Home day care, 01/1993, 12/1998
- Taught vacation Bible school at Xenos Christian Fellowship, 2 years
- Wrote curriculum for vacation Bible school at Xenos, 3 years
- Developed and started classes for gifted first graders
- Experience with multi-cultural and special needs children
- Personal Administrator for a couple serving in Cambodia as missionaries
- Stampin UP consultant
Certification
- Teaching certificate pre-k-K
- Early Intervention Service Coordinator credential
Timeline
Early Intervention Service Coordinator
Help Me Grow
01.2014 - Current
Private ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapist
08.2011 - 08.2012
Co-teacher
Upper Arlington Lutheran Preschool
08.2009 - Current
Lead Teacher
The Gathering Place
08.2008 - 08.2009
Private ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) therapist
08.2007 - 08.2008
Bookstore Assistant
Xenos Christian Fellowship
09.2003 - 09.2005
Co-teacher of part day program with three year olds
Meadow Park Children’s Center
08.1998 - 05.2000
Co-teacher of three-year-old classroom
Meadow Park Children’s Center
11.1990 - 08.1992
Lead two-year-old teacher
N. Broadway Children’s Center
06.1990 - 11.1990
Bachelor of Arts - Child Development
Bluffton University