Celeste Benes Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Suwanee, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Us

* Demonstrate flexibility and clinical creativity by co-teaching science and social studies to enhance receptive and expressive language skills in the general education setting. * Provide speech and language therapy and evaluations for students with dyslexia, executive functioning deficits, childhood apraxia of speech, attention deficit disorder, speech sound disorders, dysfluency, and dysgraphia.* Improve language and literacy skills using evidence based practices of word retrieval cueing strategy, semantic feature analysis, contextual utilization approaches, and expansions.* Strengthen academic and clinical carryover by creating home programs and communicating regularly with parents.* Teach student self-empowerment by modeling advocacy with communication partners, including asking for wait time, choices and repetition of information.* Instruct students how to use technology that promotes executive functioning and use voice to text for dysgraphia.* Increase students’ writing skills using proper narrative elements, grammar, and transitions; through graphic organizers using story grammar markers.* Collaborate with classroom teachers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, audiologists, and literacy professionals, to develop a curriculum plan for each student that best fits their needs.

Decatur, Georgia, Us

* Strengthened speech and language abilities in clients with hearing loss, autism, language delay, articulation disorder, mixed receptive-expressive language disorder.* Modeled proper scaffolding to parents to ensure strong carryover of techniques to enhance new skills.Incorporated evidence-based approaches of low-tech icon communication systems, play-based intervention, parent coaching, and contextual utilization techniques in therapeutic sessions.* Evaluated clients using formal and informal speech and language assessment tools to determine the clients’ needs and developed comprehensive treatment plans.

Suwanee, Ga, Us

Perform management of special education due process, initial evaluations, re-evaluations, and annual IEP meetings. Collaborate with other professionals and families. Conduct educationally relevant intervention of communication disorders including receptive and expressive language disorders, speech sound disorders, and fluency disorders in the elementary school setting. Oversee additional speech language pathologist functions and assignments as the most experienced SLP. Utilize strategies to support students that were appropriate for their IEP goals. * Evaluate children in kindergarten through fifth grade using standardized testing measures to determine eligibility for special education services. * Collaborate with the Response to Intervention (RTI) team to provide classroom teachers with scientifically based interventions and supports for students with communication disabilities.* Identify and implement goals and objectives tailored to the student’s individual needs and abilities. * Mentor Clinical Fellow Speech-Language Pathologist.* Work with a diverse caseload from a variety of cultural, socioeconomic, and diverse language backgrounds.

Provide home-based parent education and language interventions to children with hearing loss from birth to age 3.

* Interpret, integrate, and synthesize all information to develop a diagnosis and make appropriate recommendations on Evaluation Team Reports and Individualized Education Plans. * Schedule interventions using a variety of service delivery models, including classroom intervention, consultation/collaboration and pull-out as appropriate to meet student needs in the least restrictive environment.* Collaborate with Occupational and Physical Therapy to design and implement therapy for children in the 4th and 5th grades in social communication and for students utilizing alternative communication systems. * Maintain accurate progress notes and professional records.* Observed and assisted students in general and resource setting classrooms. * Counsel, advise, and educate family and school staff to enhance understanding of disorders to encourage family participation and to support established goals as documented in progress notes. * Implement Zones of Self-Regulation to help students learn self-regulation strategies in the school setting.

•Taking adult male clients with the diagnosis of Autism for community outings to practice compensatory communication strategies. •Utilizing behavior plans to work on skills for clients to be more independent in everyday living.•Leading classes for adults with developmental disabilities that promote job skills in the community.

* Providing diet modifications in dysphagia management and treatment.* Assisting clients in returning home from a SNF by co-treating with OT and PT for treatment that addresses activities of daily living. * Assess, diagnose, and treat adult patients with speech, language, swallowing, and cognitive disorders in a skilled nursing facility.* Participate in daily and weekly interdisciplinary meetings regarding resident care and progress in therapy.* Maintain accurate progress notes and professional records.* Maintain responsibility to communicate with medical staff, supervisors and co-workers to address all requests in a timely manner and professional manner to facilitate the best patient care. * Counsel, advise, and educate patient/family/staff to enhance understanding of disorders to encourage family participation and to support established goals as documented in progress notes.

* Programming speech generating devices for evaluating clients with complex communication needs.* Providing therapy to adults with fluency disorders via telepractice.*Auditory-Verbal Therapy for children who use cochlear implants.*Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for adults who have fluency disorders.* Coaching parents in using Auditory-Verbal Therapy for young children with severe-profound hearing loss over tele practice.*Developing lesson plans to implement therapy via tele practice services.

My responsibilities at Head Start include:*Planning and implementing therapy sessions for articulation, phonological, language and fluency disorders. *Worked on oral motor exercises for apraxia of speech.* Working on individual and group speech and language therapy for children between the ages of 3-5 years old.*Administering speech articulation and language screenings, hearing screenings, The Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2 (GFTA-2), and Clinical Assessment of Articulation and Phonology 2 (CAPP-2).* Administering speech and language screenings with an interpreter for children that English is their second language.

Akron, Oh, Us

A large portion of my clinical experience was at The University of Akron's, Audiology and Speech Center, my responsibilities include:• Administering standardized test batteries of The Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2(GFTA-2), Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL), adult hearing and oral mechanism screenings, Preschool Language Scale 4 (PLS-4).• Working with moderate to severe phonological impairments using the cycles approach.* Administering hearing and oral mechanism screenings to adults.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist