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Laura L.

FULL-TIME

Laura L.

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Wesley Chapel, FL

$20-22

Hourly rate

10

Years exp.

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Meet Laura

40yrs

female

Speaks English, Spanish

I enjoy working with families. My strengths are quickly building a rapport, fun but also structured, calming activities, therapies, and tutoring. Have...

I enjoy working with families. My strengths are quickly building a rapport, fun but also structured, calming activities, therapies, and tutoring. Have 10+ yrs experience with conditions requiring monitoring, administering medications, and keeping daily tracking logs. Trained by in Positive Behavioral Modification, crisis intervention, Applied Behavior Analysis. I worked as a therapy aide doing physical, occupational, speech, and behavioral therapy. Experience with: Autism, hyperactivity, attention deficit, impulsivity, dementia, TBI, stroke, seizures, BPD, bipolar, schizophrenia, and meal prep/planning for special medical diets. Also trained with Letter boarding and iPad typing for communication disorders. Fluent in Spanish, basic Portuguese. Available evenings and overnights, as well as weekends. I have background check, motor vehicle and fingerprints on file already w/the state, and don't mind another check :)

Highlights

  • Non-smoker
  • Comfortable with pets
  • Infant (up to 12 months)
  • Youth (1 to 11 years)
  • Teen (12-17 years)
  • Adult (18-64 years)
  • Senior (65+)
  • ADD
  • ADHD
  • Aspergers
  • Asthma
  • Autism
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Blindness/visual impairment
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Cognitive disabilities
  • Deafness
  • Dwarfism
  • Dyslexia
  • Developmental delays
  • Down syndrome
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  • Fragile X
  • Mental illness
  • Mobility challenges
  • Mulitple Sclerosis
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorder
  • Polymicrogyria
  • Rett Syndrome
  • Sensory Integration Disorder
  • Willing to care for sick kids
  • Speech delay
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Tourette Syndrome
  • CPR training
  • First Aid training
  • Laura can also help with:

    Ambulation
    Applied behavior analysis
    Bathing/grooming/hygiene
    Bed baths
    Bladder management assistance
    Blood sugar testing
    Dressing assistance
    Epi pen injections
    Feeding
    House cleaning
    Laundry
    Long distance transportation
    Meal preparation
    Medical transportation
    Positive behavioral support
    Repositioning
    Seizure attendance
    Transferring/body lifting

    Education

    Pasco-Hernando Community College

    Bachelor's

    Verified information

    • Phone verified

    • Email verified

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