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Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, a JCAHO accredited health center, provides services to a 4,400 square mile area and serves as a referral center for the western part of the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. The hospital was constructed in 1975 with a bed capacity of 73. Services provided to the community include comprehensive inpatient/outpatient emergency services, dental and ophthalmology services, orthopedics, OB/GYN, oral surgery, eye surgery and urological procedures. Approximately 49% of the surgeries performed are out patient/ambulatory surgical procedures. Learn more about our organization. The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation is located in Northwestern Arizona on the land known as the Colorado Plateau. This semi-desert landscape varies in elevation from 4,400 in the Little Colorado River Valley to nearly 7,000 feet at Preston Mesa. The unique community of Tuba City offers a culturally rich environment. The Native American tribes located and served here are the Navajo, Hopi, and Southern Paiute. This mixture along with Anglo, Hispanic, and African American employees of the hospital and school systems make a pleasantly diverse community. The staff of medical providers includes surgeons, general medical officers, internal medicine, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family practice physicians, obstetricians, ENT specialists, orthopedic surgeons, and urologists. Dental staff includes general dentists, endodontists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, pediatric dentists, dental assistants and hygienists. The nursing staff includes registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nursing assistants, community health nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, CRNA, and community health medics.
The Obstetric Clinical Nurse performs a variety of nursing care procedures requiring professional knowledge and consideration of specific patient conditions and treatments, and ability to work independently in completing assignments. Assists physicians and midwives during examinations and procedures. Provides comprehensive, family centered nursing care to mothers and babies during antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods. Guidelines include physician s orders, standards of care, nursing policies and procedures manuals, hospital policies. Nursing duties include support to individuals of all ages and their families.
REQUIRED: Must have a valid, current, full and unrestricted Professional Nursing License to practice nursing in any state of the United States of America, The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. ” Must maintain a current valid certification of the following: Basic Life Support (BLS) If not already certified, the following must be obtained within six (6) months of hire: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) AWHONN Intermediate EFM Certification
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Child Care Job Openings – YWCA Boulder County Employment

We have child care job openings for qualified early childhood education teachers, as well as other positions in support of our mission.

Current Opportunities:

• Manager, Finance
• Teacher, Persimmon Early Learning Childhood Education (Infant and Preschool)
• Latina Achievement Support (LAS) Advocate

About Us

For 100 years, YWCA Boulder County has worked to eliminate racism and empower women in Boulder County and helped women and children of all ages and backgrounds thrive. Founded by community volunteers in 1922, the organization has supported generations of women and girls by tackling social issues such as housing, employment, education, and child care. Today, YWCA Boulder County provides programs such as high-quality, affordable, and flexible child care; parent education classes; and racial justice and equity programs including youth empowerment, youth and adult education, and advocacy. As an inclusive, secular nonprofit organization, we are publicly funded, not affiliated with any religious group, and welcome people of all backgrounds and genders to participate in our important work.

In 1977, YWCA Boulder County recognized the need for flexible, affordable drop-in child care and created Children’s Alley. In 2020, responding to changing community needs, we expanded our child care program, prompting a new name: Persimmon Early Learning. As a Level 4 Colorado Shines rated Early Childhood Program, Persimmon Early Learning provides a safe, nurturing, and creative space for children ages eight weeks to six years to learn and grow in newly redesigned and expanded indoor and outdoor learning areas. We offer high-quality, affordable drop-in, short-term and permanent child care options, and we are the only child care center in Boulder County offering emergency care for families with nowhere else to turn.

Finance Manager

About You:
The Manager, Finance reports to the CEO, is responsible for overseeing all financial management and reporting of the organization, ensure adherence to GAAP and meet other non-profit compliance requirements. This position maintains systems, processes, and policies to ensure staff and management are supported to achieve the goals of the organization. In addition, the Manager builds models, forecasts, and produces ad hoc reports as needed to support the CEO, and Senior Management. This is a full-time/Exempt position.

Responsibilities:

Financial Planning

• Work closely with the CEO and senior management to develop the annual budget and interim forecasts
• Monitor budget variances
• Work with Development and program managers to create ad hoc budgets as needed for grant applications as well as any other grant reports as requested
• Manage cash flow, and present cash projections to the CEO

Finance Operations

• Responsible for making sure daily financial operations run smoothly
• Work with Bookkeeper to make sure all transactions are appropriately approved, are within the purchasing policy and accurately entered in accounting software
• Monitor cash balances daily
• Approve invoices as needed
• Produce and present accurate and timely financial statements to the CEO and Senior Management
• Oversee annual audit
• Oversee bi-weekly payroll preparation
• Prepare monthly invoices for billable grants
• File all tax reports as required
• Complete all entity reporting needed for Federal/State/County compliance.
• Manage the credit card accounts to issue and terminate cards and ensure the purchasing policy is being followed
• Oversee business insurance, quotes, and renewals as well as COI requests
• Review payroll tax reporting and payment

Required Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in accounting
• Results oriented
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of business management principles
• Computer skills and knowledge of office software packages
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to identify and implement process improvements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with QuickBooks Enterprise
• Previous experience in a non-profit environment
• Connectivity and understanding of the communities we serve

Benefits:

• Salaried at $65K – $75K DOE
• Sick time off beginning day 1
• Separate PTO
• Over 5 weeks of paid vacation
• Health insurance
• Employer funded pension plan
• RTD Pass

Interested individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folks, female identifying, and people with different levels of ability are urged to apply. Interested candidates may apply for this position by emailing their resume and a cover letter to Crystal Navarrete, Director of Human Resources at [email protected]

Persimmon Early Learning

Early Childhood Education Teacher (Infant and Preschool)

About You:
The Early Childhood Education Teacher reports to the Assistant Director, Persimmon Early Learning and is responsible for providing a caring and creative classroom environment. Qualified to care for ages ranging 8 weeks through 6 years. This is a Full time/Non-Exempt position at 32.5 hours per week.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the health and safety of the classroom
• Implement developmentally appropriate practices through experiential, play-based curriculum, and positive guidance
• Daily classroom management
• Daily curriculum delivery
• Maintaining child assessment through COR Advantage, and parent/teacher conferences (We provide training)
• Access continued coaching in children’s social-emotional growth to support all developmental needs

Required Qualifications:

• ECT Qualified – through PDIS credential, CDA credential, or alternative pathways
• Problem-solving skills
• Full understanding of Colorado State Childcare Licensing regulations
• Multitasking in a fast-paced environment
• Must be physically able to lift children
• Standing, kneeling, and bending as required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Early Childhood coursework through a regionally accredited college or university
• Pyramid Plus Approach or EQIT
• Minimum of one year verified experience

Benefits:

• $25/hour
• $1,000 sign-on bonus
• 32. 5-hour work week with full time benefits
• Sick time off accrual on day 1
• Employer funded pension plan
• Over 5 weeks of paid vacation
• Other Great Benefits!

 Interested individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folks, female identifying, and people with different levels of ability are urged to apply. Interested candidates may apply for this position by emailing their resume and a cover letter to Crystal Navarrete, Director of Human Resources at [email protected] Celina Hernandez, Co-Director Persimmon Early Learning at [email protected] and Griffin McKeague, Co-Director of Persimmon Early Learning at [email protected]

Latina Achievement Support (LAS) Advocate

About You:
The Latina Achievement Support (LAS) Advocate reports to the Director, Community Engagement and Equity. They will work directly with ninth – twelfth grade Latina high school students in Boulder County, helping to close the achievement gap and provide specialized support. LAS advocates provide a space where students can build upon the strengths and resources of the Latinx Community and understand the challenges they may face in reaching their goals. LAS provides positive youth development through programming and exposure to other organizations in Colorado. This position requires a commitment to the work and mission of YWCA Boulder County and supervision of youth. This is a part-time/exempt position 6-12 hours per week and can be performed remotely or hybrid.

Responsibilities:

• Recruits and retain students for LAS group at assigned area high school in Boulder County
• Develops and maintains relationships with school staff, counselors, teachers
• Provides tutoring and mentoring
• Helps plan and chaperone students on college visits, field trips, volunteer, and other extra-curricular activities
• Communicates with LAS student families as needed
• Adheres to all protocols of using school space, resources
• Develops/coordinates programming and leads weekly empowerment group meetings held at school site, such as Life skills topics (wellness, study skills, adapting to change, issues of relevance) and College readiness/career planning

Administrative:

• Maintains LAS calendar on spreadsheet
• Collects and enters data on student attendance and grades/graduation rates into spreadsheets
• Administers Pre/Post program surveys, collects Pre/Post surveys; enters data
• Coordinates logistics for activities, including refreshments, room location, AV set-up, reservations, etc.
• Administers and collects any necessary field trip or participation permission slips

Qualifications:

• Timely and clear communication skills
• Experience working with multicultural audiences and/or underrepresented youth
• Eligible to work in the U.S.
• At least 18 years of age
• Reliable form of transportation
• Available during school, afterschool hours (to be arranged with high school site)
• Available to attend bi-weekly staff meeting with Director and other specialists
• Flexible work hours, avg. 6 – 12 hours/week, August through May

Education:

• Current college student or college graduate

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual Spanish/English -not required

Compensation and Benefits:

• $15.13 per hour
• $200 sign on Bonus
• RTD Pass

Interested individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folks, female identifying, and people with different levels of ability are urged to apply. Interested candidates may apply for this position by emailing their resume and a cover letter to Crystal Navarrete, Director of Human Resources at [email protected] and Marisol Garcia, Manager, Racial Justice and Equity at [email protected].

Natalya Vladimirovna Yaroshenko: “The main figure in the kindergarten is the child around whom all our work is built”

Natalya Vladimirovna Yaroshenko is the absolute winner of the 5th regional competition for heads of preschool educational organizations “The best head of a kindergarten in the Novosibirsk region”, head of kindergarten No. 7 “Solnyshko” in the Chistoozerny district.
Teaching experience – 28 years.

If the kindergarten “sounds”, it means that professionals work in it!

I participated in the competition “The Best Head of Kindergarten in the Novosibirsk Region” twice: when it was held for the first time and this year. In 2016, she took second place in the nomination “Management of professional interaction in the team of a preschool educational organization. ” And, a few years later, she decided to compete again for the title of the best leader.

I believe that participation in competitions gives a lot for each contestant: the exchange of experience and ideas, professional growth and self-affirmation. In addition, the spirit of competition positively charges, moves you forward towards new goals. I am firmly convinced that in order to have the right to ask someone, you must first ask yourself: “What are you worth? What are you capable of?”
My principle, which I have been following all these years, is this: a good leader must motivate his employees not by order, not by order, but by personal example, he must be a leader. Leadership is the key to success. Each victory makes you go forward, gives you strength and confidence.

In addition to personal growth, winning the competition enhances the image of an educational institution, especially in rural areas, because it is a kind of advertisement for a kindergarten for parents. If the kindergarten “sounds”, it means that professionals work in it! A professional teacher grows only when he teaches others and continues to learn himself. The Novosibirsk region is rich in talented teachers from whom you can learn a lot. And contests are a great opportunity for this!

One must love the child

The comfort of the child is, in our opinion, the main criterion for evaluating a preschool organization. After all, the baby will not want to go to a kindergarten where they treat him coldly, even if the kindergarten is exemplary, with advanced technologies and the latest equipment.

The child intuitively feels falseness, you cannot deceive him, therefore, in my opinion, not only teachers, but also assistant educators, and watchmen, and office cleaners – everyone should treat children with warmth and care.
Our team consists of kind, sympathetic employees who are always ready to help the little man. I never tire of repeating to my colleagues: “The main figure in the kindergarten is the child, around whom all our work is built. ”

The comfort of our kindergarten is noted not only by parents, but also by guests of the institution: flights of stairs are painted with drawings, in the halls there is a “Russian hut” and an art gallery, constantly updated photo exhibitions and children’s drawings. Groups are bright, cozy and comfortable. Each of them has a patriotic and sports corner, a creative corner. In such a warm environment, close to home, preschoolers not only play, but also willingly study, develop their abilities.

In addition to educators, we have a physical education instructor, a psychologist, a speech therapist and two music directors. We pay great attention to additional education. We cooperate with the Chistoozerny Museum of History and Local Lore, the Chistoozerny School No. 3, the House of Children’s Creativity, the library named after S.P. Mosiyasha and a sports complex. All these activities are included in the annual plan.

We promote a healthy lifestyle. Health Week, morning exercises – a flash mob with children and parents on the territory of the kindergarten, hiking in the summer have become traditional in the kindergarten. Some of our pupils are engaged in a sports complex, and, in agreement with their parents, training is carried out in accordance with the schedule of classes in kindergarten.

For several years, our physical education instructor of the highest qualification category, Tatyana Aleksandrovna Prishchepa, has been leading the “Children’s Fitness” circle, where children, dancing on step platforms and with pompoms, develop a sense of rhythm.

An important direction of our work is artistic and aesthetic. For several years, the kindergarten has been providing free additional educational services – a choreography circle is being conducted. Classes are held twice a week by the choreographer of the House of Children’s Creativity Alena Andreevna Mukhamedchanova. Our children actively perform artistic performances at various events held in the cultural center, sports complex and other organizations of our region.

Thanks to the support of my relatives, I became a leader

I have been a manager for ten years now. I am very grateful to my parents for the fact that I received a good upbringing and education, and took place as a professional.

I was born in the warm city of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). When I was five years old, our family moved to the Tselinograd region (Northern Kazakhstan). There I graduated from the Tselinograd Pedagogical School, which in those days was famous for the training of professional personnel.
During perestroika, in 1992, dad, Vladimir Kharitonovich Kurasov, was transferred to work in the working village of Chistoozernoye. So the parents returned to the homeland of mother Lyubov Pavlovna Kurasova. And I stayed in Kazakhstan and started working as a primary school teacher. She got married and, five years later, my husband and I also moved to Chistoozernoe.

Then there were no vacancies at the school, and for about a year I temporarily replaced the teachers in kindergarten No. 7 “Solnyshko”, then I got a job as a physical education instructor in kindergarten No. 5 “Ivushka”, after three years I was a senior teacher there. I thought that kindergarten was a temporary phenomenon in my life. But it turned out, forever. And I don’t regret it at all. In 2005, I graduated from the Novosibirsk Pedagogical University with a degree in elementary school teacher, but continued to work in a preschool organization.

In 2010, I was offered the position of head of kindergarten No. 7 “Solnyshko” – the very one from which the “preschool” work began.

To be honest, I did not immediately agree. The reasons for hesitations and doubts were weighty: the leadership of the education department defined the kindergarten as “none”. The first three years were the hardest. To say that it was difficult is to say nothing. I realized that pedagogical education is not enough for a leader, you need the knowledge of a lawyer and a psychologist, a manager and a designer, a financier and a business executive.
Now behind us are the most difficult years of work, when we had to put the territory and financial and economic activities in order, improve the educational process and increase human resources. I had to learn all this (life forced me).

Was I wrong? Of course yes. But I don’t perceive mistakes as a tragedy, because those who do nothing do not make mistakes. If I am sure that I am right, I can defend my opinion, protect myself and my team. How else? After all, our work is one of those about which they say: “You can not embrace the immensity.” So I try to see and single out the main thing from this immense and weed out the secondary.
Ten years have not been in vain for me. They taught me a lot, in some way changed my worldview, attitude towards people, towards life. I may have lost something, but gained even more. They say that a ship without a captain is not a ship, but a captain without a ship is not a captain! Kindergarten is my brainchild, my second home, where I spend more time than in my own. And the employees are my like-minded people, my team, my ship.

I believe that professionalism, exactingness and fairness are necessary for the successful management of any team. Thanks to my previous work experience, I am well aware of the specifics of the activities of all parts of a preschool institution and can not only control, but also provide concrete practical assistance to my employees.
As for exactingness, everything is very clear here: you cannot be kind and weak-willed if you are responsible for children, employees, for the fate of the institution entrusted to you. It is impossible (and not necessary!) to please everyone, to try to be good for everyone, but to be fair is the sacred duty of every leader.
I know well that it is easy and comfortable to work where there is discipline and order. I am always open for dialogue, and personal initiative, if it is for the good, is only welcome here. I have a positive attitude to criticism, I doubt the sincerity of subordinates who do not find any flaws in their superiors.

Thanks to my family – my husband and children – I became a leader. Colleagues at work and the head of the department of education, Andrey Alexandrovich Liss, taught me a lot, from my relatives I received great support and help from my aunt Valentina Kharitonovna Kurasova, a philologist by education.

We can only dream of peace!

I am proud of my Soviet education. After graduating from the Pedagogical School, I lacked only experience, so it was quite easy to integrate into the work process. Now it is given to young specialists, unfortunately, more difficult.

Our team consists of young people. They strive for excellence, and I am always happy to help them in their professional development. So, at last year’s regional competition of professional skills “Pedagogical debut” educator Victoria Vadimovna Averkeeva took first place. People like Victoria Vadimovna are already born teachers, children love them. I am glad that there are such stars who are proud of their profession and are aimed at obtaining deep knowledge.

It is wrong when a person sometimes says to himself: “I know everything and I can do everything.” If you want to achieve heights, you need to constantly study, not stopping at the results achieved. Learning new things is always interesting. It is in this vein that our close-knit team works. There are teachers who are afraid of novelties and innovations. So I always remind: “It’s not the gods who burn the pots.” Our motto is to try everything new, experiment and participate in various competitions, show our achievements and learn from our colleagues.

And my colleagues and I have something to be proud of: in 2019, the entire team performed at the All-Russian competition “The Best Kindergartens of Russia”, for which each teacher prepared materials in one of five educational areas. The event was held in a public exhibition format. There were more than 32 thousand participants, and we entered the top five hundred. The victory once again proved to all of us that it is team work that brings results. Even if one person performs at the competition, the whole team participates in the preparation, everyone helps in the direction in which he is strong.

The personal achievements of colleagues are pleasing: physical education instructor Tatyana Alexandrovna Prishchepa took an honorable second place at the regional competition “My best pedagogical event”, educators Marina Vladimirovna Ivchenko, Zamzamgul Tleulesovna Mukhamedzhanova became silver medalists of the regional competition for environmental education of children “Eco-baby”, Marina Vladimirovna is also the winner of the All-Russian distance competition of pedagogical skills, a participant in the competition named after. L.S. Vygotsky.

Every year we update, change, invent something. And how many ideas we still have to implement! You can’t relax. We have to keep up with the times. Stop and be on the sidelines. And it’s always harder to catch up. So “we can only dream of peace!”. And that is great.

It is necessary to take into account the desire and abilities of the child

Most teachers believe that the most difficult thing is to find a common language with parents, but I, on the contrary, like to talk with them. Yes, they are different, everyone wants to see their child in the forefront, everyone has their own preferences. But you can negotiate with anyone. We just need to try to find a way.
When mothers and fathers understand that their children are being taken care of, they listen.

I remember how long I convinced one grandmother, who signed up her grandson for choreography. She really wanted to see the boy on stage, and he showed interest in designing. I still managed to convince her that it is necessary to take into account the wishes of the child, to develop the abilities that he has. Grandmother listened to the advice, and today the preschooler is happy to do modeling.

As a teacher, I am firmly convinced that in the development of creative abilities it is necessary, first of all, to take into account the desire and talent of the child, and not just the opinion of the parents. The little man should be given the opportunity to choose, make his own decision and be responsible for his actions. This is how individuals are raised.
I believe that everything is still ahead for me and my team, because we love our kindergarten, our work, and most importantly, we love our children and everything we do is for them.

Education. Tselinograd Pedagogical College, specialty – primary school teacher. Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, specialty – primary school teacher.

Authority in pedagogy. Anton Semyonovich Makarenko. The key direction of his activity is labor education. And now it is relevant. And I completely agree with my grandmother Maria Afonasyevna Nemirenko, who said that a person should be able to serve himself, and a child should be instilled with love for work from childhood.

Historical figure. I will name Peter I. The great reformer did a lot for the development of our country. During the years of his reign, profound changes took place in society in the state, science, military affairs, and industrial production were actively developing.

Hobbies and passions. I love needlework: sewing and crocheting and knitting, I love to cook. Learned to drive a car. Now I want to learn English. All the time I want to learn something new.

Favorite movie. My husband and I often watch the films “Officers” and “Girls”. These are my favorite films. Fantasy doesn’t appeal to me. The exception is Avatar.

Favorite book. In my school years, Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” made a strong impression on me. I love Russian classics, but in recent years I have mostly read professional literature.

Recorded by Alesya Voyakina

“The services of speech therapists, defectologists are in great demand” – Yakutia-Daily.ru – latest news from Yakutia and Yakutsk – everything important and interesting . Maksimova) employs many highly qualified specialists. One of them is a defectologist teacher with 34 years of experience, a graduate of the defectological faculty of the Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute Zinaida Nikolaevna Ivanova.

In the footsteps of parents

, since childhood, she dreamed of becoming a teacher. There were reasons for this – both mother and father were teachers. The girl spent hours watching her parents check notebooks, prepare for lessons, read, and dreamed of eventually becoming a teacher herself.

– I am the seventh child out of ten in the family. Mom – Mother is a heroine. When I was in the 8th grade, my older brother and sisters were already studying at central universities. And I also wanted to become a student, get a teacher’s specialty and start working. Therefore, after graduating from the 8th grade, I decided to enter the Yakutsk Pedagogical School No. 1 as a primary school teacher – a pioneer leader.

My parents and principal were totally against it because I was an excellent student. And yet I left. She graduated from YaPU-1 excellently, it’s time for distribution. When it was my turn, they said that I was the only one from the graduating class who gave me a quota for study and handed me a list with the names of universities where I could enter. These were universities in Moscow, Leningrad, but I chose Sverdlovsk, where my older brother settled after graduating from the Polytechnic Institute.

– Was it difficult to study?

– It was very difficult, but it was there that we were given all the basics that helped us later in our work. The first two years taught medical subjects, even received a nurse’s diploma. They studied oligophrenopedagogy, speech therapy, correctional pedagogy… From the first semester, they began to go to special schools, of which there were a lot in Sverdlovsk. We watched how experienced specialists conduct classes and practiced. I remember how for the first time I found myself among a crowd of disabled children, how I felt uneasy, ran out into the yard, and tears rolled from my eyes … But then I pulled myself together. But in these schools there were very experienced doctors, defectologists, who explained everything to us, told us. They were my first mentors. I noticed that all schools were well equipped, there were workshops where children learned to work, received a profession. At 19In 87 she graduated from the Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute, where she studied for five years.

The first defectologist in the region

– And did you return to your native republic?

– Yes, I went to Yakutsk for distribution, but for family reasons I asked to go to my native Nyurba. At that time, no one really knew about such a specialty there – I became the first defectologist in the region. M.P. worked as the head of the RONO. Fedorov, who received me very well, appointed me as a specialist in the methodological department at the Department of Education. So, immediately after graduation, she became a mentor: she inspected schools, kindergartens of the district, examined children, identified them, sent them to special schools in the capital, and invited some to the speech center organized by me. It was difficult to say – it’s nothing to say. There was no special education at all, there was no literature, except for the one that I brought with me, people did not understand that they had to deal with children, and not just feed, dress – everything had to be started from scratch. I began to work with teachers who came for advice. Showed them what exercises, corrective methods, etc. were.

– When did the ice break?

– At that time there were a lot of deaf children, they didn’t study anywhere, no one worked with them. In 1996, at the invitation of the RONO (Head V.M. Kuzmin), a team of the SUVAG Center arrived from Neryungri under the leadership of director Z.S. Maksimova. The team included an ENT doctor, an audiologist, a neurologist, a teacher of the deaf (at that time we didn’t even have an ENT doctor in the district). Many children were then identified. Zinaida Semyonovna conducted courses, recommended to open a group, left our first Verboton-10 device. After their departure, we opened an uneven-age group at a kindergarten for 12 deaf children as a branch of the Neryungri Republican Center for Hearing and Speech. Plus, they were added to those who came for a consultation.

Then we worked as an ulus mini-center on the basis of the hospital, we were given to the staff of educators, junior educators. Once the then Minister of Social Protection, Labor and Employment of the RS (Y) Yulia Peskovskaya came to us. She liked our work, I remember, she was even surprised that specialists with such training work in the outback, which are not enough in the capital.

– And how did the new center in Nyurba appear?

– Since there were results, very good feedback from parents, in 2000 a new center was opened. So the availability of relevant personnel, work experience, results has become a great help for the opening of the Nyurba Rehabilitation Center for Hearing and Speech. In the early years, a lot of work was done to identify children with speech and hearing problems. Children from all the Vilyui group of uluses began to come to us, even from the city of Yakutsk and the northern uluses. If earlier parents were afraid to send their children somewhere far away, then a center was opened nearby where they could undergo rehabilitation. It was then that everyone’s eyes were opened: it turns out that results can be achieved. During my time, 30 children integrated into general education schools and kindergartens! I consider this our great achievement. As a result of this work, I was awarded the badge “Excellence in Education of the RS (Y)”.

– In the newly opened center, of course, you became a mentor.

– At that time my children went to study in Yakutsk, and my husband was with them. I stayed alone in Nyurba to continue working in my center. So they lived for about five years.

I worked hard. All incoming children with severe developmental disabilities went through a commission. I mainly taught speech and hearing correction classes, filled out documents. Working as the head of the psychological and pedagogical department, she taught children herself. She helped young colleagues, at the same time protected them so that they would continue to work – she was a real mentor for them. The main thing I taught them was to find an individual approach to each child with special needs and to each parent, since everyone has their own problems and needs that are completely different from others.

Was also a mentor for parents. The “School of Parents” worked even on weekends, held consultations, events, entertainment, master classes . .. Because working with parents should come first, since the teacher can help somewhere by 30%, and 70% is work parents.

We are the first

– When did you move to Yakutsk?

– Moved to Yakutsk in 2013, worked for four years in the Republican special correctional boarding school for deaf students. There I tried all the specialties – I was a social pedagogue, a defectologist, a teacher, an educator. In this school I met the first teachers of the deaf in the republic who graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. They were already experienced, venerable specialists.

– You have been working at the Republican Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities since the opening.

– When the recruitment of specialists began, I was hired. New employees, new center – everything is new. At first, children were left without parents under the supervision of educators. And the race lasted 40 days. Of course, parents liked this mode of operation of the Center – they brought children in the morning and left them for the whole day. But over time, it became clear that you need to deal with parents.

– You are one of the most experienced specialists of the Center. Young colleagues turn to you for advice, help?

– In the first years of work, they applied, but over time, my young colleagues themselves gained experience in the process of work. Now there are fewer people asking for help. In any case, I never refuse anyone.

It is noteworthy that there are men among young speech therapist colleagues, which means that the future is in good hands.

Advice for parents

– What advice would you give parents?

– The task of parents is to create favorable conditions for the development of the child at home, so that he has his own corner, visual pictures. And, of course, a special approach to the child.

Only 30 minutes are allotted for a lesson with a teacher, and the rest of the time parents, in particular, a mother, should work with him. It is necessary to systematically repeat what took place in the lesson with the teacher (all tasks are recorded in an individual notebook).

It is necessary to praise the child, to see only his positive traits. And not to say that he does not know how, then he does not know how. We must remember that the child is in constant dynamic development.

– What can you say about the results of the Center’s work in five years? What is the dynamics?

– Of course, over the five years of work there is a positive trend. The first children we accepted for rehabilitation are now unrecognizable. For example, there was a boy with a severe diagnosis of cerebral palsy, whose entire muscle tone was atrophied, he could not utter a word. Along with other specialists, I also worked with him. Our medical specialists taught him to walk on a stander, and as a result, he began to walk along the corridor himself.