Professional Caregiver
Mallory Tompkins
3641 Vz Cr 4907
Ben Wheeler TX ------------766
Professional Overview
Experienced Special Needs Caregiver with a demonstrated history of working in residential and educational settings. Including various degrees of special needs severity, from high functioning individuals, to prolonged motor and cognitive deficits. Exudes a patient, empathetic, tactful, adaptive, and creative approach to individualized childcare. High communication skills with parents and other care professionals.
Skills
• CPR/First Aid Certified
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems
• Picture Exchange Communication System
• Multi-sensory equipment assessment and environment design
• Gastrostomy tube placement, monitoring, and maintenance
• Implementing integrative education through Classroom experience
• Experienced Implementation of Individualized Behavioral Intervention Techniques
• Facilitating and training practical living skills and personal care
Work History
Resource and Lifeskills Room Substitute Teacher 08/2012-05/2014 Van Elementary School, Van, TX
• Assisted Elementary Special Needs classroom teachers on call
• Augmentive and Alternative Communication System Training
• Aided Autism Middle School students by helping with homeroom class assignments
• Accompanied Resource students to integrative classroom and guided them to stay on task
• Encouraged alternate responses to emotional disturbance during challenging behavioral stimuli
• Sought behavioral professionals for behavioral elements out of my control
In-home attendant 11/2013-12/2014 Arp, TX
• Provided residential care to 12 year old male with Traumatic Brain Injury
• Assisted with successful potty training through routine trips, sign language, and encouragement
• Assisted with food utensils training skills successfully by practice and encouragement
• Took a wide range of physical activities to promote flexibility and motor coordination
• Provided outlets for self-expression with therapeutic reward-centered outings
• Administered appropriate medication and medical procedure training for seizures
• Maintained sanitation and safety in household
Special Needs Care Provider, 08/2018 to 08/2019 Emory, TX
• Residential care to 28 year old male with Cordelia de Lange’s Syndrome (CdLS) and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Administered Gastronomy tube
• Maintained sanitation and safety in household
• Administered time-sensitive medication
• Initiated calming re-directives at onset of self- injurious, aggressive, anxious behavior episodes
Education
Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, TX
90 credit hours Counseling/Psychology
Mallory Tompkins
3641 Vz Cr 4907
Ben Wheeler TX ------------766
Professional Overview
Experienced Special Needs Caregiver with a demonstrated history of working in residential and educational settings. Including various degrees of special needs severity, from high functioning individuals, to prolonged motor and cognitive deficits. Exudes a patient, empathetic, tactful, adaptive, and creative approach to individualized childcare. High communication skills with parents and other care professionals.
Skills
• CPR/First Aid Certified
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems
• Picture Exchange Communication System
• Multi-sensory equipment assessment and environment design
• Gastrostomy tube placement, monitoring, and maintenance
• Implementing integrative education through Classroom experience
• Experienced Implementation of Individualized Behavioral Intervention Techniques
• Facilitating and training practical living skills and personal care
Work History
Resource and Lifeskills Room Substitute Teacher 08/2012-05/2014 Van Elementary School, Van, TX
• Assisted Elementary Special Needs classroom teachers on call
• Augmentive and Alternative Communication System Training
• Aided Autism Middle School students by helping with homeroom class assignments
• Accompanied Resource students to integrative classroom and guided them to stay on task
• Encouraged alternate responses to emotional disturbance during challenging behavioral stimuli
• Sought behavioral professionals for behavioral elements out of my control
In-home attendant 11/2013-12/2014 Arp, TX
• Provided residential care to 12 year old male with Traumatic Brain Injury
• Assisted with successful potty training through routine trips, sign language, and encouragement
• Assisted with food utensils training skills successfully by practice and encouragement
• Took a wide range of physical activities to promote flexibility and motor coordination
• Provided outlets for self-expression with therapeutic reward-centered outings
• Administered appropriate medication and medical procedure training for seizures
• Maintained sanitation and safety in household
Special Needs Care Provider, 08/2018 to 08/2019 Emory, TX
• Residential care to 28 year old male with Cordelia de Lange’s Syndrome (CdLS) and Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Administered Gastronomy tube
• Maintained sanitation and safety in household
• Administered time-sensitive medication
• Initiated calming re-directives at onset of self- injurious, aggressive, anxious behavior episodes
Education
Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, TX
90 credit hours Counseling/Psychology