• Evaluating and treating short term and long term residents for speech, swallowing, cognitive linguistic, and safety deficits• Educating patients and families of baseline deficits, determining goals with the patient or caregiver, and completing a plan of care for the patient's best prognosis• Providing inservices and education to interdisciplinary team to ensure each patient is receiving the correct diet level, cognitive linguistic support, and increase patients' quality of life• Working with interdisciplinary team to plan the most appropriate and safest discharge environment and support level

I currently treat patients of all ages with neurological disorders to increase their ability to participate and complete social and functional activities in their homes and in an outpatient office setting.

• Evaluating and treating long term residents and short term rehabilitation patients in skilled nursing facility for cognitive deficits, aphasia, dysphagia, and voice• Providing treatment for trach patients in post-acute care facility for Passy Muir toleration, swallowing, and voice• Counseling patients and educating families on goals, progress, and restorative plans of care• Educating staff with in-services regarding speech, language, and swallowing related topics• Collaborating with nursing staff to modify patients’ environments and reduce risks of falls• Completing co-treatments with Occupational and Physical Therapy to increase safety awareness

• Evaluating and treating long term residents and short term rehabilitation patients in skilled nursing facility for cognitive deficits, aphasia, dysphagia, and voice• Providing treatment for trach patients in post-acute care facility for Passy Muir toleration, swallowing, and voice• Counseling patients and educating families on goals, progress, and restorative plans of care• Educating staff with in-services regarding speech, language, and swallowing related topics• Collaborating with nursing staff to modify patients’ environments and reduce risks of falls• Completing co-treatments with Occupational and Physical Therapy to increase safety awareness

• Prescreening 50-60 resumes per hour for one of the company’s largest accounts • Phone screening 8-10 potential candidates per day• Processing staffing requests and maintaining client relationships• Screening, recruiting, and placing office professionals• Managing all steps of employment process including reference checking, hiring, salary negotiations, disciplinary actions, and terminations and separations• Acting as translator for Spanish business transactions and interviews• Searching and sourcing for potential recruits by navigating online databases and social Networks

• Evaluating and treating patients in inpatient rehabilitation for deficits in: • Cognition, asphasia, voice, dysphagia• Populations with traumatic brain injuries, strokes, dementia• Hands-on experience with tracheostomies, Passy Muir Valves, capping• Transitional care• Creating reports and documenting evaluations, appropriate goals, treatments, and discharges

• Organizing and filing information for externship sites, students, and supervisors• Converting files to electronic records• Communication with externship supervisors• Creating presentation documents for supervisors• General administrative support

• Evaluating and treating residents for: • Dysphagia • Cognitive deficits (related to/exacerbated by Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc.) • Safety awareness and orientation• Creating reports and documenting evaluations, treatments, and discharges

I attended Temple University in Philadelphia to continue my education in linguistics and speech-language pathology related topics.I worked with Dr. Jodi Reich in a corpora study of Spanish and English bilingual children, examining their morphosyntactical language development through existing transcripts in SALT software. I conducted literature reviews as needed and reviewed transcripts for specific linguistic constructions, while keeping detailed information in an organized manner.

• Opening/closing restaurant• Food preparation • Cleaning and maintaining cooking supplies and kitchen• Overseeing staff, scheduling, handling customer complaints, training new employees• Recruiting and screening potential candidates• Training new hires in all aspects of the restaurant• Waiting tables, preparing drinks, customer service, handling money• Maintaining front of restaurant