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Patrick Lanigan Professional Infographic Resume. This document brings you through the accomplishments, qualifications and experience I have gained throughout my life. This may show a future employer What they can expect from me and where skills came from. This details my skills and training, work experience, and education as well. Find the contacts section to reach me on all platforms at any time.

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We think about ourselves a lot in these trying times. Why me? Why did the corona virus have to take my college life away? I miss my friends, “I’m being robbed of the college experience” says my older sister. Perhaps someone in another generation approaches and handles this situation differently? Join me in learning about how a speech therapist changes their everyday lifestyle in order to continue teaching students with special need.

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Meet Barbara Lanigan a speech therapist working at a school for students on the autism spectrum. The Coronovirus pandemic has impacted a lot of our typical lives. Among other things, this has changed the way Barb works everyday. Since the school she works at has closed in person classes, the institute like most others resorted to online classes. Find Barbara’s edited interview below:

Barb explains how teaching students with special needs is much different than teaching typical students. Children on the spectrum have difficulty with tasks that might be viewed as simple to others. Barb specializes in speech therapy which concentrates on articulating verbally. Some of the students she works with are non-verbal however. She explains how these student’s use a device to help them speak.

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For these non verbal students, Barb tends to use lots of visuals. She explains how “Kid’s of this generation love technology, they’re on their phones, they’re on their computers its the same thing for kids on the spectrum, they are visual learners.”

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For her other students that are more verbal. Barb may will roll a giant foam die in front of the camera. Whatever number the die lands on will be how many times the desired action will be repeated.

Here she asks the student what sound a pig makes. Then she rolls the die and shows the six. The student will now be tasked with making an oink sound six times. This can be especially difficult for students who have trouble using certain parts of their mouths for sounding out words. If Barb were working in person she would “try to help them stimulate sounds by imitating, sometimes I use a mirror.” she also mentions how none of these are options available through online learning.

Barb also brings up the distractions available with at home learning. Most of these students are accompanied by one-to-one aids who help them stay focused at tasks at hand. With school being displaced into a home setting, busy parents are often relied on to be the child’s support tool. Many parents are still learning to adhere to teaching their child with disabilities and can offer insufficient guidance. This can be very difficult for all everyone. Parents turned part time speech aids can hurt the progress of a students ability to comprehend and learn. These outside forces would be eliminated in the comfort of Barbara’s office.

“Schedules are changing” is a point Barb takes note of. “My 8:30 and 9:00 sessions are not always showing up.” This could be because parents are changing their schedules in order to accommodate their children’s new schedules. Most parents are used to getting up and sending their kids to school on the bus where their one-to-one aids are waiting for them. Now these same parents are having to stay with these children throughout their entire learning experience.

Donations are always welcomed at Barbara’s school here.

Here is Patrick’s average day in quarantine displayed through slideshow. Notice how “productive” his days can be. Please note that this is only loosely based on his everyday actions. This has been created with intent to entertain not to inform. Quarantine is handled by each individual differently. Please refrain from judgmental comments as this time.

The Washington Capitals proved all the doubters wrong in 2018 with their historic Stanley Cup win. For the first time in franchise history they were crowned the greatest hockey team in the NHL. Many believed they just didn’t have what it takes to go all the way. Countless years they would fall short. Not only in the in the finals but early in the playoffs.

Before 2018 the last time the Caps had even a glimmer of the Stanley Cup in their view was winning the conference final in 1998. This would count only as one of two finals appearances.

Historically, the Capitals post-season was often end early due to the Pittsburgh Penguins. With offensive firepower in the likes of Sidney Crosby and Evgeny Malkin there wasn’t much standing in the Penguins way. That would include the capitals.

The Capitals have met the Penguins in a total of 11 different series’. This compiles to 68 different playoff games played between the two. The Penguins own the hedge to this post season with a record of 40-28 over the 2018 Champions.

Meeting 11 times in the playoffs is stranger to lots of teams as the Caps-Pens rivalry ranks 2nd all time in post season meetings. This of course excluding the original 6 teams to start the league.

But it was in 2018 that the Capitals got the last laugh. Defeating the 2017 Stanley cup Champions on home ice to lift them to play the Tampa Bay lightning in the conference finals. Uncharted territory for the Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin.

Finally, the caps would get their chance at world champions and they would certainly make the most of it defeating the Vegas Golden Knight’s in a series that only required 5 games.

I am raised in Parsippany New Jersey, which lies just west of New York City. The youngest of three I have a sister Catherine and the oldest being my brother Brian.

Brought up in a sports family I was encouraged to explore my competitive side early in my life. I would play football, ice hockey, and eventually lacrosse. I would pick up my first lacrosse stick in second grade given to me as a gift from my older cousin. I would later exchange this for a real stick and play on a real team for the first time in 6th grade.

This sparked a fire in me like no other.

I decided to dedicate all my time and effort to getting better at the sport I knew and loved. I set a lofty goal for myself early and that was to play college lacrosse. My parents went from equipment to save money because “I didn’t know if I would enjoy it or not”, to becoming a driving force behind my ambitious ultimate goal of becoming a college lacrosse player.

I am also an avid gamer. When I was 11 years old, I received an Xbox 360 for Christmas. This is a device that changed my life forever. I often make jokes that if I had substituted all the time I spent on Xbox and time spent practice lacrosse. I’d be the greatest lacrosse player in the nation.

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I am in the Communications program at the University of Hartford to achieve a degree that will hopefully leverage me into a job I love. That is the ultimate goal right? I wont work a day in my life if I truly love my job.

I currently work as an ice hockey official in USA Youth Hockey Association. My job consists of getting yelled at by passionate hockey dads and coaches. To say the least I have thicker skin.

I hope you enjoy my blog, I’ll be posting about all different types of sports, the college athletics world, video games, and some social media mishaps too! For more information on me check out my LinkedIn account.

What would you like to hear me write about on my first blog?