Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
I completed my clinical practicum placement at the Daniel Drake Center in long-term acute care (LTAC). As a practicing clinician, I had the opportunity to further my knowledge and provide appropriate services to improve my patients quality of life. Throughout this job, I got exposure and experience working with coma recovery, cognition, swallowing, receptive/expressive language, fluency, social pragmatics, and much more. The majority of my patients were weaning from the ventilator and on trach collar. I also had the opportunity to briefly work in the skilled nursing facility and with individuals receiving outpatient services. I conducted several evaluations including Modified Barium Swallow Studies (MBS), Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluations (FEES), Passy-Muir Valve (PMV), Rappaport (Coma Recovery Scale), Cognistat (Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination), etc.