Kira Shannon-Sudds

Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant with an additional background in employee training and worksite health and safety. Hands-on experience in multiple clinical settings: School pediatrics (Pre-K - High School), Outpatient pediatrics, Orthopedic hand therapy, and Acute care/Assisted living facilities.

• CPR Red Cross, 07/2023
• CBOT License California Board of Occupational Therapy, 06/2024, 5742
• NBCOT Certification, 08/2021, 459077

• Level 2B, 2505 W Shaw Ave #101, Fresno, CA, 9371, 320, 03/2021 - 05/2021
• Level 2A, 2208 W Sunnyside Ave, Visalia, CA, 93277, 320, 01/2021 - 03/2021
• 1700 College Crescent, Virginia Beach, VA, 23453, 40
• 1220 Executive Blvd Ste 109, Chesapeake, VA, 23320, 10, 05/2020 - 06/2020

Level 2B - Goodfellow Occupational Therapy 03/2021-05/2021 Fresno, CA 320 hours/8 weeks completed.

· Provided sessions in a pediatric outpatient clinic, education setting, and public community setting of a homeless shelter for women and children.

Level 2A - Dash Therapy 01/2021-03/2021 Visalia, CA 320 hours/8 weeks completed.

· Completed 8 weeks of in-person fieldwork under the supervision of an OTR/CHT.

· Independently provided treatment interventions for 12-17 patients daily four days a week.

· Implemented client education in ergonomics, contraindications, edema management, exercise protocols, wound care, and splint fabrication.

Level 1B - Tidewater Community College 10/2020 40 hours completed.

· Onsite workshop to address clinical skills used in stroke rehabilitation.

· Received hands-on experience and insight from OTR’s/COTA’s working in the field, assessed stroke patients from videos of interviews, observations, and clinical reasoning sessions, developed a clinical treatment plan for a selected stroke patient.

Level 1A - Inside Out Learners 05/2020-06/2020 10 hours completed.

· Participated in teletherapy meetings with children aged 5-16 to observe weekly lessons addressing psychosocial skills.

· Covered topics such as recognizing and handling emotions, compromising in difficult situations, and learning social skills to initiate conversations.

· Implemented client interventions to address goals ranging from tactile defensiveness, use of neglected side in hemiplegia, handwriting, cutting, social-emotional regulation, proprioception/body awareness, and mindfulness and bonding practices between mothers and children living in a homeless shelter.