Ellen Breen Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Provides comprehensive evaluation and evidence-based treatment in conjunction with multidisciplinary team at inpatient acute rehab and outpatient levels of care for individuals with speech, voice, language.
• Patient populations including but not limited to individuals with traumatic and nontraumatic brain injury, aphasia, right hemisphere dysfunction, Parkinson’s disease, Dementia, ALS, MS, spinal cord injury, disorders of.
• Clinician for the Intensive Aphasia Institute, 2023 SLP of the year nominee, member of the Battery of Rehabilitation Assessments and Interventions (BRAIN) committee, part of the 23-24 Communication Champions program.
• Evaluates and provides intervention for individuals who may benefit from Alternative and Augmentative Communication, assistive technology, or general communication supports in addition to their rehabilitation services.
• Conducts throrough case history examination and completes medical documentation using Cerner.

• Lead speech-language pathologist for students in grades K-8, supervised clinical fellows and graduate student externs.
• Provided evidence-based literacy professional development to general/special educators and guided the response to intervention (RTI) and referral process across four charter schools within the ReGeneration Charter.
• Collaborated with multidispinary team, including general education teacher, parents, social worker, psychologist, oocupational therapist, special education teacher, and case manager to develop Individualized Education.
• Advocated, evaluated, and collected data to track progress, design intervention plans, and create IEPs appropriate to meet individual student needs in their least restrictive environment according to IDEA 04.
• Referred students for school-based AAC, created, managed, and implemented use of either low tech or high-tech devices.

• School-based clinician; performed speech, language, literacy, and fluency evaluations/treatment for students in grades K-8
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team, including general education teacher, parents, social worker, psychologist, occupational therapist, special education teacher, and case manager to develop Individualized.
• Initiated school-wide universal kindergarten screenings, implemented MTSS services, and formed collaborations with staff to guide the initial eligibility process
• Implemented evidence-based practice and collected data to track progress, design intervention plans, and create IEPs appropriate to meet individual student needs in their least restrictive environment according to IDEA.

Middleton, WI

• Administered speech/language evaluations in the Middleton Cross-Plains area school district (preschool-12th grade)
• Collaborated with parents, teachers, special educators, teachers, and off-site care providers to guide the evaluation process
• Performed and analyzed bilingual speech and language assessment through collaboration with an interpreter
• Facilitated team meetings addressing students’ eligibility for special education services

Madison, WI

• Lab of Dr. Jenny Saffran, whose research examines the learning mechanisms that allow children to acquire their native language
• Master’s Thesis titled, “Generalizing Sound Patterns from Experience: Connections Between Phonological Regularities and Word Learning in Infants,” advised by Dr. Saffran
• Coded and analyzed data for Looking-While-Listening studies using iCoder and Datawiz
• Scheduled and ran participants in Psychopy, Eprime, MATLAB
• Coding manager for the 2014-15 school year as an undergraduate; planned and organized data for reliability checks and trained new research assistants.

Stoughton, WI

• Performed evaluations, screens, treatment sessions, discharge planning, and Medicare paperwork for individuals in skilled nursing and assisted living settings
• Patient populations included CVA, Traumatic Brain Injury, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, medically complicated individuals, and residents with general decline in function not otherwise specified
• Treatment areas included dysphagia, cognition, expressive/receptive language, speech, and voice
• Attended family planning/discharge meetings, facility in-service meetings, and executed standardized treatment protocols including Spaced Retrieval Training (SRT)

Madison, WI

• Provided comprehensive assessment of articulation, velopharyngeal function, language, and early feeding in accredited craniofacial anomalies multidisciplinary clinic
• Collaborated with team specialists including plastic surgery, otolaryngology, dentistry, genetic counseling, immunology, social work, and audiology for treatment planning
• Performed pediatric voice evaluations and therapy using standard protocols including RVT (resonance voice technique)
• KayPentax equipment utilized includes: Nasometer, Visipitch, Stroboscopy, and Phonatory Aerodynamic System

Madison, WI

• Collaborated with team that provided language and literacy intervention to children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds whose parents were a part of the UW-Madison Odyssey Project, a program for.
• Collected baseline data to develop individualized objectives for each child in the large group setting

Madison, WI

• Provided articulation, expressive/receptive/pragmatic language, cognitive, and voice feminization assessment and therapy
• Executed standardized treatment protocols including PACE (Promoting Aphasics’ Communicative Effectiveness), VNeST (Verb Network Strengthening Treatment), RET (Response Elaboration Therapy)
• Facilitator of supported conversation and card/game group for persons with aphasia
• Member of multidisciplinary team in conjunction with UW-Madison’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Program Pro-bono clinic, co-treated patients and provided supportive communication strategies to PT students
• Member of Central Auditory Processing Disorder diagnostic team in collaboration with audiologists, administered a battery of expressive/receptive language assessments

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Created quizzes, held weekly office hours, and conducted homework/exam review sessions for students enrolled in CS&D 240 with Dr. Jan Edwards and Dr. Rita Kaushanskaya

Madison, WI

• Lab of Dr. Jan Edwards, whose research examines phonological development in preschool children, the interactions between vocabulary growth and phonological acquisition, cross-linguistic phonological acquisition, and.
• Examiner, ran participants through a battery of speech, language, and cognitive assessments
• Ran studies in E-prime and used Tobii eyetracking software
• Data analyst and transcriber for phonotactic based Non-Word Repetition task
• Participant populations included late talkers, children from low-socioeconomic status families, and children with cochlear implants

Madison, WI

• Lab of Susan Thibeault, PhD, CCC-SLP: Director of UW Voice & Swallow Clinics, whose research investigates molecular and genetic factors that form the basis of normal vocal fold tissue and vibration.
• Work focused on studies including: Clinical Progression of Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion in the Outpatient Setting, Clinical Surveys of Pediatric Voice, Measuring Vocal Fold Hydration, and Epidemiology of Voice in.

Madison, WI

• Organized weekly discussion sections for students enrolled in Psych 560 with Dr. Jenny Saffran
• Encouraged active learning through peer discussion and activities facilitating depth of knowledge and understanding in child development

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

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Communication Sciences And Disorders, General