Deanna Paoli Gumina

CURRICULUM VITAE

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Private practice, diagnostic and learning specialist (1995 to Present)

• Administration of cognitive and educational assessments
• Formulation of individualized interventions tailored to client learning style
• Academic, behavioral and vocational recommendations proposed
• Thorough explanation of findings to individual, family, school, and student

President, Board of Directors (2005 to 2016)

• Moving Forward Toward Independence (a residential program for dependent young adults, Napa, California)
• Member, Board of Trustees, Megan Furth Academy (Retired)

Consultant, The Laurel School (8/2006 to 6/2007)

• Implementation of Learning Profiles based on out-side evaluations
• In-service of the faculty on special needs and accommodations
• Screening of students

Director of Admissions/Special Education, Sterne School (2000-2004)

• Evaluation of all applications and the interviewing applicants
• Implementation of individualized learning profile for each student
• Compilation Individual Education Plans (IEP) goals/ objectives for funded students
• In-service of faculty on special education accommodations
• Teach study skills/brain behavior/ life science to 8th graders in preparation for the rigors of a high school science course

Instructor, University of California Extension, San Francisco (Spring 2007)

• Graduate seminar in the administration of standardized assessments and implementations of accommodations in a learning disabled population.

Instructor, San Francisco State University, Special Education (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)

• Graduate seminar in assessment, curriculum adaptation, educational planning and practices associated with mild to severe learning disabilities
• Graduate seminar in advanced differential diagnosis/assessments

Instructor, University of San Francisco (Fall1999, Spring 2004)

• Undergraduate course in the theories and dynamics of educational psychology
• Undergraduate course in the psychology of reading-experimental approach

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Presentations: Megan Furth Academy on Differentiation; St Gabriel on Memory; St. Vincent de Paul on Cognitive Educational Testing.

Learning Specialist, direct remediation to middle school students with identified learning needs (Fall1998-Spring 1999)

Consultant to schools: Testing of students at high risk for academic failure (Fall1999)

Established diagnostic learning center and provided direct remediation to students Kindergarten through 8th grade, including extensive assessment services and supervised interns working with students (1994-1998).

Founder, organized and facilitated Archdiocesan Support Services meeting for the Archdiocese of San Francisco (1995-1998).

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING/SUPERVISED CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Psychology assistantship administered neuropsychological assessments, Medical Rehabilitation Unit, St. Mary’s Hospital (1994-1995)

McAuley Neuropsychiatric Institute St. Mary’s Hospital, administered psychological assessments and provided direct therapeutic patient services on adolescent units (1994-1992)

Oakes Children’s Center, Play therapy with severely emotionally disturbed children (1992-1991).

Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. UCSF Children’s Inpatient Unit (1989-1991)

CERTIFICATION

Board Certified Educational Therapist (BCET #10072)

EDUCATION

California School of Professional Psychology (Ph.D.1995; M.A.1992)

University of San Francisco -History (M.A. 1970; B.A. 1967)

HISTORIAN and WRITER (1970 to Present)

Authored, “An Intrepid Sleuth Shines a Light on a Forgotten World War II Internment Camp,” Unpublished.

Authored, “A Columbus Day Which Will Live in History,” The Argonaut, Journal of San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, Winter 2024, Vol 34, No.2

Authored, “When All Telephones Were Black,” The Argonaut, Journal of San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, Winter 2023, Vol 33, No.2

Authored, “A Toast to Paoli’s Restaurant,” The Argonaut, Journal of San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, Winter 2014, Vol 25, No.2

Authored, “Packing his easel and closing his umbrella,” --- Ernest Peixotto, Another Native Son of California, took that “flitting” East,” The Argonaut, Journal of San Francisco History, Winter 2012, Vol23, No.2

Authored, “Frank Norris: The Brilliant Writer With Math Disability,” Studies In American Naturalism, Summer, 2009, Vol 4, No 1,

Authored, “A Certain Woman of Importance: The Life and Times of Kathleen Norris,” Illuminations Press (2004)

Authored bilingual history, “The Italians of San Francisco: Gl’Italiani di San Francisco 1850-1930,” Center for Migration Studies (1978, 1985, 2000)

Annotated, “The Winter Diary of Lillie Hitchcock Coit,” Journal of San Francisco History Society, Spring 1998.

Author, “Old St, Mary’s: Crossroads of the World,” Spring 1995

Assistant Archivist, San Francisco History Room, S F Public Library (1973-1974)

HONORS

Medaglia d’Oro, Lucca, Italy, September , 1996; Recognition of

Ovation IV: Bella Italia, San Francisco History and Museum Society, September 13th, 2011

VOLUNTEER

SPCA: Puppy Dog Tails Reading Program, Laurel School, reading with struggling readers.