Tiana Ruiz

Provided speech and language services to children in early intervention and preschool age.

Addressed improving receptive and expressive language skills, phonological/articulation skills, and pragmatic skills.

Developed and implemented lesson plans to meet the needs of a diverse caseload of learners.

Maintained daily progress notes, quarterly progress reports, and annual reviews.

• Supporting students ranging from 3rd grade to high school
• These students presented with a variety of disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down syndrome and Cerebral palsy
• Duties consisted of working as a 1:1 aid for a specific student daily, carrying out behavior intervention plans, and collecting data in regards to a student's daily performance
• Responsibilities also included supporting the teacher teach lessons, addressing IEP goals and classroom management
• Leading small group instruction throughout the day

• Maintaining high productivity by efficiently processing cash, credit and debit payments from customers
• Helping customers find specific products, answering questions and offering advice
• Observing company return policy when processing refunds, including inspecting merchandise for wear or damage
• Training new team members in cash register operation, stock procedures and customer service

• Provided speech and language services to adults with development disabilities in individual settings which addressed improving effective communication, including expressive language skills, cognitive skills, social skills, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) skills
• The following AAC skills/devices were addressed: Sign language (additional to verbal expression), Proximity switch – utilized with environmental controls and speech generated device, Speech generated device (Tobidynovoxx, Accent 1000), AAC Apps (LAMP: Words for Life, ChatFusion, TD Snap)
• Developed and implemented lesson plans incorporating language-based learning
• Maintained daily progress notes
• Collaborated with physical therapist to ensure proper positioning in wheelchairs, and provided an in-service to teach an administrator how to appropriately use proximity switch and AAC device

• Provided speech and language services to students, ages 10 -14, in general education and self-contained special education classes
• Addressed improving receptive and expressive language skills, and phonological/articulation skills
• Developed and implemented lesson plans incorporating speech and language-based learning to meet the needs of an ethnically, linguistically, and academically diverse caseload of learners across a range of educational disabilities
• Maintained daily progress notes

• Provided speech and language services to adults with aphasia, from a traumatic brain injury or stroke, in individual and groups settings
• Addressed improving effective communication, such as receptive and expressive language skills, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) skills
• Developed and implemented lesson plans incorporating language-based learning to meet the needs of a diverse caseload

• Provided speech services to children with developmental fluency disorder in individual settings
• Addressed improving effective communication by teaching stuttering modification techniques (i.e
• Easy onset)
• Developed and implemented lesson plans incorporating speech-based learning
• Administered, scored, and evaluated criterion based assessments

• Provided speech and language services to clients, ages 3 - 18, in private clinic setting online
• Clients presented with a variety of disabilities including Cerebral Palsy, Treacher Collins syndrome, and developmental delays
• Addressed improving receptive and expressive language skills, phonological/articulation skills, and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
• Developed and implemented lesson plans incorporating speech and language-based learning to meet the needs of an ethnically, linguistically, and academically diverse caseload of learners
• Administered, scored, and evaluated standardized and criterion based assessments