29yrs

female

Speaks English

My experience helping individuals with special needs started in high school and has continued throughout young adulthood in a variety of settings. While in high school, I assisted peers with physical and cognitive disabilities during our Physical Education class. Throughout college, I worked at an organization called Western DuPage Special Recreation Association and assisted kids and adults with disabilities as a 1:1 aid in a variety of recreational programs. The kids I worked with at WDSRA oftentimes needed help regulating their emotions and impulse control due to having ADHD and or being on the Autism Spectrum. After college, I worked as a part-time caregiver to a teenage girl who was born with a brain injury resulting in the loss of her physical autonomy and speaking abilities; I helped her move by wheelchair, helped feed her and give her medication through feeding tubes, change her diaper, and then spent time walking around and listening to music and reading stories.