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Glen Burnie, Maryland

Frederick Maryland

Glen Burnie, Md

• Screen, evaluate, develop plans and deliver treatment to adults with speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing impairments secondary to stroke, traumatic brain injury, anoxic brain injury, dementia, head/neck cancers, head and chest tumors, psychological, and progressive degenerative diseases in both outpatient rehabilitation and inpatient settings• Execute bedside swallow evaluations, make appropriate diet recommendations and/or refer patients for Modified Barium Swallow (MBS) studies, write evaluation and treatment reports•Perform and interpret MBS studies, review and discuss findings and video with patients and family members, provide appropriate diet recommendations and referrals based on MBS findings• Evaluate patients with tracheostomies, introduce Passy-Muir Valves (PMVs) as appropriate• Collaborate with rehabilitation team to design and implement consistent and appropriate treatment for each patient; communicate with members of medical team to ensure safe and appropriate dysphagia management and treatment • Educate and counsel patients, family members, and caregivers in both inpatient and outpatient settings about community reintegration, speech/swallowing anatomy and physiology, aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia, modified diets and maintenance of quality of life

Phelps Luck Elementary School, Howard County, Md

• Delivered speech and language treatment to students with diverse and multiple disabilities including articulation/phonological disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, Autism/ASD, hearing loss, ADHD, fluency disorders, intellectual disabilities, and other receptive and expressive language impairments• Served students in general education classroom and adapt lessons and materials• Collaborated with teachers, special educators, school counselor, Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams, and other specialists to support student curriculum and ensure uniformity across all aspects of intervention design• Educated teachers and special educators to deliver adapted instruction in the classroom to students with disabilities • Evaluated students from linguistically and culturally diverse populations• Designed activities to remediate communication difficulties related to reading, vocabulary, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, and articulation• Developed data collection materials to track measurable progress• Educated and collaborated with parents to implement speech, language and learning goals at home

Rockville, Md

• Evaluated, treated, and counseled patients with traumatic brain injury, aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, learning disabilities, and executive function deficits• Conducted individual and group speech and language therapy and cognitive rehabilitation for adults with mild to severe cognitive deficits • Developed treatment plans for patients targeting activities of daily living; collected data; monitored client progress; planned treatment sessions; collaborated with other professionals; and completed progress reports

Speech, Language And Hearing Center, Towson, Md

• Worked as diagnostic team member in the Adult Language and Literacy clinic to assess the nature and severity of a range of speech and language disorders including but not limited to reading, writing, and expressive and receptive language disorders• Utilized and delivered a variety of standardized and non-standardized assessments • Developed treatment plans and behavioral objectives, collected data, monitored client progress, planned treatment sessions, collaborated with other professionals, wrote progress reports, and delivered treatment to client’s ranging from 3-31 years old with voice, articulation, fluency (cluttering), and other expressive and receptive language disorders

Speech, Language And Hearing Center, Towson, Md

• Supported and assisted the speech-language pathology clinic director in managing externship placement contracts, supervisor ASHA certification, visitation schedules and reports, and student grades• Provided assistance in the organization and maintenance of the speech-language pathology graduate student materials and clinic at the Institute For Well-Being

College Park, Md

• Planned and implemented group speech and language therapy to teenage children with severe-to-profound cognitive deficits and Autism• Counseled, interviewed, and presented plans and progress in weekly updates to client family members • Collected data, monitored client progress, planned treatment sessions, wrote comprehensive progress reports, and collaborated with student clinicians

Hearing And Speech Sciences Program, Umd, College Park, Md

• Conducted weekly review sessions; generated graded quiz questions based on class text; hosted office hours twice weekly; compiled review sheets based on lectures; developed and contributed to class blackboard website

Westminster, Md

• Shadowed and assisted speech-language pathologist in individual and group sessions during the Extended School Year (ESY) program • Provided support to a child diagnosed with Autism as a one on one aid

Master Of Science (M.S.), Speech-Language Pathology

Activities and Societies: NSSLHASpeech-Language Pathology Master's Program

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Hearing And Speech Sciences

Activities and Societies: NSSLHAHearing and Speech Sciences Student and Researcher