Denise Nicolajsen

Insight to team meetings

Recruit and encourage parent volunteers

Strong communicator and collaborator

Self-initiating with healthy relational skills

Planned and lead engaging daily classes

Collaborate in planning lessons and special events

Understand and foster different art forms

Implement and tracking of preferences and target goals

• Individual education plans based on identified needs
• Creatively planned and led groups
• Observed and recorded child behaviors
• Facilitated positive transitions
• Positive role model
• Parent/teacher communication
• Positive child/teacher relationships
• Liaise with other professionals during team meeting

• Guided Individual/Speech/Language support grades K - 8
• Sensitive to reading interests and strategies with ESL students
• Supportive cueing, reinforcement,and feedback
• Inclusive therapeutic interventions/one-to-one and small groups
• Observe, guide and supervise daily activities and games
• Positive role model, problem solving and conflict resolution
• Awareness of social development, physical, intellectual and emotional needs
• Open communication with principal, teachers and Speech Pathologist
• Adapt small group activities for developmental levels, Contract support to family with multiple children diagnosed with Autism
• Work with interdisciplinary team to facilitate development of IEP
• Implement academic, artistic, physical programs
• Support children with social development
• Culturally sensitive programming
• Referencing and regulation
• Home based teaching and after school child support provider

• Developed, planned and provided individualized curriculum through engaging lessons for children/teens with varying abilities in a home setting
• Strategies focusing on life long learning styles and adapting for challenges
• Adept at assessing student abilities and organizing lesson plans that meet all required goals
• Specialize in keeping students engaged while providing steady feedback and positive encouragement.

• The Children’s Foundation Treatment Center, Gladstone Secondary Alternative Program, and Vancouver Technical High school
• Details provided upon request.