Casey Williams Email & Phone Number

• Evaluate & provide individualized speech-language therapy to students in preschool through 5th grade with receptive-expressive language delays, speech sound disorders (articulation, phonological, and Childhood Apraxia.
• Service the resource room within G.T. Norman Elementary by providing individualized interventions for both verbal and nonverbal children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Facilitate social skills groups with the school social worker targeting pragmatic language goals, such as turn taking, topic initiation, topic maintenance, etc.
• Complete daily therapy logs, Medicaid service logs, progress reports, Individualized Education Plans, Nonpublic Service Plans, and Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team Reports.
• Took leadership role in development of Procedures Manual & Parent Handbook as a part of the Corrective Action Plan in response to an audit of the Reed City Special Education Department
• Develop home programs and resource packets for parents of children receiving speech and language services

Grand Haven, MI

• Provided assessment and developed functional intervention plans and home exercise programs for adults with cognitive communicative deficits (secondary to stroke or degenerative diseases), dysphagia, voice disorders.
• Delivered evaluation and treatment for children of all ages with disorders of expressive/receptive language (secondary to autism, severe prematurity, or rare syndromes), fluency, articulation, swallowing, and cognition.
• Assisted with and documented various modified barium swallow studies to determine presence or absence of aspiration/penetration, as well as recommend least restrictive diet
• Learned principles of Lee Silverman Voice Treatment-LOUD, as well as Beckman Oral Motor Assessment & Intervention due to supervisor certification in programs
• Worked in inpatient, outpatient, skilled nursing and home care settings
• Exposure to and participation in inter-professional team collaboration, professional documentation and billing procedures

Central Michigan University

• Completed informal assessments and created functional intervention for teenage female with receptive/expressive language delay and social deficits secondary to Autism diagnosis
• Provided feeding therapy targeting development of oral motor skills and increasing PO intake for 12-15 month old patient with dysphagia secondary to Down syndrome & prematurity
• Performed multiple laryngeal video stroboscopies with rigid endoscope following 1:1 training with professor and Dean of Communication Disorders Program
• Analyzed speech sample to identify type and severity of disfluencies of school-aged patient with fluency disorder and conducted intervention to increase awareness of disfluencies, use of fluency shaping techniques, and.

Central Michigan University

• Provided intensive treatment to patient with childhood apraxia of speech and autism to improve overall intelligibility, language deficits, and social awareness
• Delivered traditional articulation and voice therapy to patient with Spina Bifida, dysphagia, and other medically compromising conditions to increase patient’s overall speech intelligibility

Central Michigan University

• Administered formal and informal evaluation measures to assess speech, language, and hearing in potential SSC participants ages 3-6 years with disorders of receptive/expressive language, articulation, and fluency
• Analyzed results of assessments to recommend if patient’s met inclusion criteria for participation in SSC

Alma, MI

• Conducted individual and group assessment and intervention services for residents with the following disorders: Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, neurogenic stuttering, aphasia, and cognitive-communication.

Central Michigan University

• Evaluated and provided treatment for male-to-female transgender client using voice analysis software targeting the increase of fundamental frequency and inflection of voice

Central Michigan University

• Diagnosed and provided intervention services for receptive-expressive language delay for child with Down syndrome using American Sign Language in conjunction with focused stimulation technique
• Facilitated diagnosis and treatment for client with cleft palate and concomitant articulation difficulties

Mt. Pleasant, MI

• Facilitated articulation-based individual and small group therapy for kindergarten-aged children
• Developed functional individual and group activities for bi-weekly session at the elementary school