MICHAL HALBERTAL acn2r7@r.postjobfree.com

*** *, ***** ******. ***, New York, 10002 646-***-****

Jan 20, 2015

As an aspiring Speech and Language Pathologist, I currently graduated from Queens College, City

University of New York. I am seeking an opportunity to join your company. Accordingly, I have attached for your

consideration a resume that outlines my qualifications.

Since I was 11 years old I started babysitting, and realized that I had a way with children. My youngest

brother was born with autism, and I saw that I was the only one in my family that really understood his needs. I have

been taking care of him for around 15 years.

Furthermore, I was a head counselor in a summer day camp in 2008, where I took care of 15 children ages 2-

4, changing diapers, and doing arts and crafts, music, physical education as well as dance. We baked as well.

Moreover, as of August 2009 I have been working with a special needs child, who has a language delay, and

communication disorders. I am currently working with his younger brother.I am also working with two 2 year old

twin girls with speech/language, and motor impairments, as well as feeding and swallowing difficulties. I did a lot

of volunteering, such as at a psychology (ABA) lab, Bilingual Biliteracy lab for Speech- Language Pathology,

Queens College chapter NSSLHA bake sales, and at Beth Israel Hospital Pediatric Department, and at the

Walk4Hearing. I also worked last year for HASC in Borough Park, for adults with Down syndrome.

From the 14 years of working with my autistic brother to working with the special needs six year old boy, and

then working with the twins with speech, language, motor, as well as feeding and swallowing disabilities, I realized

that I wanted to pursue my career as a Speech Language Pathologist.I have also been trained in ABA in a lab in Queens

college. I received my undergraduate degree in December of 2011 in Psychology and Communication Sciences and

Disorders. I am also minored in philosophy. I am currently in my second year of Graduate school for my masters in

speech-language pathology. I am goal oriented, I have great people skills and I am excellent at working with children,

as well as special needs children. My creative imagination as well as my love for children, my outgoing nature, and my

enthusiasm, as well as my hard working, and goal oriented nature will allow me to be an excellent Speech-Language

Pathologist.

I am confident that my background and education provide me with the necessary tools to have a significant

positive impact on the education of my future clients. I will enjoy meeting with you in person to discuss how I can

further impact the lives of those children and adults. I want to give back to the world, what the world has given my

brother.

Thank you for your time and interest. I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Sincerely, Michal Halbertal

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MICHAL HALBERTAL

E-MAIL: acn2r7@r.postjobfree.com

530 E Grand Street 2C• New York, NY 10002 • 646-***-****

EDUCATION

Queens College CUNY

Jan 2009-Dec 2012

Majors: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Psychology

Minor: Philosophy

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus Sep 2012-Present

Graduate School: Currently Pursuing a Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology.

Graduation date: May 2015

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Adult Diagnostic Practicum at Lutheran Hospital

Responsible for conducting evaluations on patients with dysphasia and neurogenic speech disorders with an

emphasis on multi-dialectical and multicultural populations.

Attended seminars on dysphasia, aphasia, and neurogenic speech disorders, with an introduction to diagnostic

equipment.

Established interpersonal relationships with team members, and worked with an interdisciplinary team in

order to conduct diagnostic evaluations and write reports.

Sep 2014-Jan 2015

Brooklyn, NY

OMNI Rehab Center

Responsible for conducting evaluations, and treating both children and adult clients with articulation, fluency,

voice, aphasia, reading comprehension and writing. As well as worked with children with autism, with an

emphasis on multi-dialectical and multicultural populations.

Established rapport with the clients and their parents.

Established interpersonal relationships with other speech therapists, as well as with both Occupational and

Physical therapists.

Responsible for writing paperwork for both CPSE and CSE children, and writing SMART goals, progress

notes and diagnostic reports for both children and adults.

Responsible for conducting audiological assessments, trained in writing audiograms and diagnostic

equipment, dispensing hearing aids and creating hearing aid molds for adults with hearing impairments, down

syndrome, and who speak Russian and Hebrew.

Jan 2014-June 2014

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic at LIU

Responsible for diagnosing and treating children with Autism spectrum disorder, fluency disorders,

expressive language disorder, pragmatic disorders and articulation disorders. With a strong emphasis with

multi-dialectal and multi-cultural populations.

Established rapport and interpersonal relationships with team members and parents.

Strong emphasis on operant conditioning, socio-cognitive, and constructivist approaches.

Jan 2014-May 2014

Brooklyn, NY

New York Child Resource Center

Strong emphasis on the DIR Floor Time approach (Early Intervention)

Worked with low functioning toddlers with autism and apraxia from multi-dialectical and multi-cultural

populations.

Established rapport and interpersonal relationships with team members.

Sep 2013-Jan 2014

Brooklyn, NY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HASC Direct Care Worker and Counselor

Live in during weekends (Friday through Sunday), helps adults with Down syndrome, and other intellectual

disabilities, through medication administration (AMAP CERTIFIED), speech and language activities, and

feeding and swallowing.

Sunday program counselor, servicing children with autism, Down syndrome, as well as cognitive and

intellectual disabilities, through sensory and speech and language activities to stimulate their development.

Sep, 2012- Present

Brooklyn, NY

Graduate Assistant at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus

Helps professors make and mark exams, as well making lesson plans, and some secretarial work.

Sep, 2012-July 2013

Brooklyn, NY

Martin Cohen’s Law and Tax Firm

Worked all of tax season, filing, copying papers, and helped in the preparation of taxes. Currently does

projects, and filing.

April 2012-Present

Manhattan, NY

End of summer program for Ohel Bais Ezra

Worked with a 9 year old boy with Autism. Took him to group activities, took him to OT and music therapy,

and free play, in camp Rommimu.

Aug, 2012

Summer Speech and Language Intern at Comprehensive Center

Assisted the speech therapist supervisor with projects, and filing both the client’s and clinician’s paperwork.

Assisted the clinicians in the therapy sessions for Speech/Language/OT/PT.

June 2012-Aug 2012

Manhattan, NY

Child Life Specialist Student at Beth Israel Hospital

Volunteered at Beth Israel Hospital Pediatrics working under a Child Life Specialist to assist

neurologically impaired patients and their families (Example: seizure/ epilepsy disorders).

Jan 2011- July 2011

Manhattan, NY

Speech and Language, Motor and Feeding Disorders Tutor

Worked one on one with two year old twins to assist them with their language, speech, motor, and feeding

skills

August 2010- August 2011

Queens, NY

Worked one on one with a five year old special needs child to assist him with his language delays and other

communicative disorders

August 2009- August 2011

Queens, NY

BSZ Day Camp

Head counselor for summer program for preschool children ages 2-4

August 2008

Manhattan, NY

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Walk4Hearing, Manhattan Oct 2011

Helped raise money for the hearing impaired

Bilingual Biliteracy Speech and Language Lab, Queens College CUNY June 2011- Dec 2011

Conducted independent study on early literacy in the Bukharin culture

NSSLHA Local Chapter, Queens College CUNY August 2010- Dec 2010

Organized bake sales to raise money for aphasic patients

Raised money for Queens College Speech, Language and Hearing clinic

ABA/Equivalence Training Psychology Lab, Queens College CUNY Jan 2010- Aug 2011

Managed my own statistics project and assisted PhD students with their dissertations that were presented at

the ABA convention and published in The Journal of Psychology

Mood and Personality Psychology Lab, Queens College CUNY Jan 2009- Aug 2009

Assisted with ongoing projects and experiments performed in the lab

Role Play Psychology Research Project, Queens College CUNY Jan 2009- May 2009

Assisted professor with psychological experiment about social perspectives through role playing

PRESENTATIONS

“Bukharians in New York: Shifting Languages” by Michal Halbertal, Amy Lu, Sima Borukhova, and Elizabeth

Ijalba PhD Assistant Professor Linguistics and Communication Disorders Queens College, CUNY. Presented at

NSSLHA convention, May 2011

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member, National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, national and local chapter

(NSSLHA/NSSLHA QC, LIU Brooklyn campus)

Member, National Honor Society in Psychology (Psi Chi)

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

NSSLHA Volunteer Appreciation Award Dec 2010

Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology Student Achievement Award March 2009

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS

Can work with an interdisciplinary team

Can work with parents/caregivers from multilingual, multidialectal and multicultural backgrounds

Student Relationship Building

Influential Communication Skills

Knowledge of Microsoft word, excel, and PowerPoint

Hard working

Timely and orderly

Teaching reading and writing as well as Elementary level math, to an individual with special needs.

Teaching peer relationships to adults and children with special needs and communication disorders.

Teaching adults and children with special needs how to express their emotions.

Experience in speech, language, oral motor reading, swallowing, feeding, math, and writing therapy for

both adults and children.

Can do motor activities with adults and children who have low muscle tone.

Can set up daily goals/plans for the special needs/speech/motor impaired adult and child

Full of creativity

Can work well under pressure

Outgoing/ Excellent people skills

CPR certified

AMAP certified

First aid certified

Driver’s license

Graduate assistant skills

Can work with both children and adults

Can speak and understand both English and Hebrew

References:

.I worked with a special needs child who has shown great improvement in his communication

skills and relationship with his peers as a result of my work with him. If you would like to call

up my employer her name is Gitty BenAri 718-***-****.

. I worked with two 2 year old twin girls doing speech language, motor, and feeding activities, in

addition to mapping out their daily goals. It has been a year since I have been working with them

and they have been able to talk in full sentences, and have matured both socially and cognitively.

If you would like to call up my employer her name is Rivka Rosenholtz 646-***-****.

. I volunteered at Beth Israel Hospital on 16th street in Manhattan for 6 months. I worked over

one hundred hours there, in the pediatric playroom on the 6th floor Dazian Building. My

responsibilities were to do rounds, go into the patients’ rooms, and ask the patient what he or she

needed. I did arts and crafts with the children, cleaned the toys, and organized the rooms. I also

played with the patients, made them laugh, cheered them up, hooked their IV plugs back into the

walls, and hooked seizure and epileptic patients to video monitors. I worked on relieving their

anxiety when they were being hooked up to the seizure probes, by telling them how good it

would feel for them to see themselves on TV. I worked with seizure patients, epileptics, ICU

patients, autistic and neurologically impaired patients, as well as speech delayed and coma

patients. They ranged from a month old to 21 years of age. I also volunteered at Beth Israel

ambulatory fire drill, by acting as a patient in immediate need. If you would like to call my

employer or supervisor contact Beth Israel on 16th street 1st Ave Volunteers Department :

playroom (212)-420-432, ask for Terry, or Marcia.

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