Brigitte Waldier Email & Phone Number

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States

Speech and Language Pathologist serving kindergarten through fifth-grade students in a diverse, growing, and inclusive school district. Job duties include:- Case management of students with significant speech and language impairments impacting their education.- Educate teachers, aides, and other service providers on communication needs and supports.- Lead team meetings for annual IEPs, Eligibility meetings, and Review of Existing data meetings.- Provide therapy individually, in groups, and in the classroom environment targeting functional communication, expressive language skills, receptive language skills, executive functioning, AAC, social language skills, and speech sound production skills. - Complete Evaluations and determine the need for services or discharge of services based on standardized testing, observations, caregiver and teacher interviews, dynamic assessments, and criterion-referenced assessments.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

A team-based and interdisciplinary approach to pediatric speech and language therapy for birth to 21 years old. Areas of practice include social language therapy, social groups, expressive and receptive language, cognition, articulation, phonology, motor planning, AAC, swallowing, and feeding.

Conduct pediatric, out-patient therapy and evaluation in the areas of Autism Spectrum Disorder, feeding, swallowing, sensory integration, ADHD, speech sound disorders, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Selective Mutism, and developmental delay.Managed full caseload.

Provided in-patient, pediatric speech, language and swallowing services to children post-stoke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury. Managed full caseload for patients aged 5 months to 19 years old. Treatment experience included: feeding, swallowing, voice, language, cognitive communication, social, and reading therapy.Provided individual and group treatment.

Provide speech and language therapy and evaluation to both children and adults in the following areas: aural rehabilitation, augmentative communication, social communication, early language, articulation, phonology, fluency, reading comprehension, cognitive communication, voice, and accent reduction.

Manage caseloads for 40 individuals undergoing cancer treatment at the University of Iowa HospitalConnect families to available resources

Teach and lead lab sections for over 50 undergraduate Speech and Hearing studentsConduct lab experiments regarding word perceptionManage grades for a class of 100 students

Word Learning Lab

Design and administer testing procedures to measure children’s long-term word learning ability. Record, analyze, synthesize, and present data collected from over 60 children’s memory across multiple time points. Second author in research publication: Frontiers in Psychology, Language section publication (Fall 2016)

Advise, lead and build a diverse community of over 50 students living on campusWork with campus resources to support academic success