Administer, score, and adapt evaluation procedures to meet patient needs while assessing speech, language, and feeding development. Collaborate with a neuropsychologist, registered dietitian, and occupational therapist when evaluating feeding, speech, and language in children. Evoke language expansion and extension through child-led activities to increase motivation to communicate with intention. Observe developmental steps of feeding through exploration and playfully interaction with food to increase comfort and knowledge of food properties.

Deliver individualized assessment, treatment, education, and support for relevant cognitive, language, and executive function to meet each patient’s unique needs across the continuum of recovery post-concussion.

Remediated persistent speech sound errors, implemented evidence-based strategies to reduce secondary characteristics and negative, covert feelings surrounding stuttering, and fostered functional, social communication opportunities to encourage conversations and participation within the classroom. Aligned metalinguistic goals with Common Core Standards to meet learning expectations and establish high school readiness. Supported multilingual learners through equitable assessment to differentiate dialectical and linguistic differences from language disorders. Increased self-awareness and self-monitoring to promote dismissal in adolescents.

Employed neuroprotective cares and cue-based feeding to foster positive feeding experiences, pre- and post-discharge, for fragile premature infants and caregivers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Educated on co-regulated, cue-based feeding via parent coaching to support parent-infant attachment and quality feeding beyond the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Assessed place, voice, and manner of articulation to analyze speech sound systems in children and select phonological approaches to reduce phonological processes. Mastered various articulation approaches to develop age-appropriate speech sound productions, increase speech intelligibility, and promote generalization across environments. Provided expressive and receptive language therapy via structured and play-based activities to motivate communication of wants and needs and improve language processing of age-appropriate concepts. Modeled the use of multimodal communication to express wants and needs in functional and routine based activities. Provided parent education and coaching to encourage home carryover and use of AAC across contexts to support speech and language development.

Provided speech-language therapy to individuals ages five to 80 years. Administered and scored norm-referenced assessments to evaluate speech sound discrimination and production. Elicited and analyzed narrative and expository language samples to evaluate executive functioning. Collaborated with school speech-language pathologists and case managers regarding client history and intervention. Applied visual phonics to cue vocalizations of target speech sounds and support development of early literacy skills. Confidently employed visual and verbal cues to increase expressive language. Targeted errors in speech sound production and prosody through repetition to improve motor planning. Strengthened linguistic skills through grammatical writing, lexical semantics, and reading comprehension. Planned and facilitated group therapy targeting multimodal social communication and cognition.

Organized interactive activities and transported, supervised, and provided personal care for youth with physical and intellectual disabilities.

Transported, supervised, and cared for a young individual with physical and intellectual disabilities.

Cared for three children, ages 6, 3, and 9 months amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Creatively engaged with the children while adhering to the CDC's safety guidelines.

Interacted with, taught, and tended to the needs of young children while adapting to new changes in school curriculum.