Shauna Chevalier, M.A., Ccc-Slp Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

At one of the top 5% ranked hospitals in the nation for patient care: provides assessment, treatment, and counseling for patients with dysphagia, fluent and non-fluent aphasia, cognitive communication disorders, dysarthria, apraxia, and voice disorders secondary to conditions including altered mental status, dementia, metabolic encephalopathy, CVA, TBI, respiratory failure, and degenerative neurological disease.

Delivered assessments and interventions for clients ages one to twenty-one with needs in articulation, phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, fluency, narrative comprehension and expression, and social-pragmatic language.Collaborated and treated alongside occupational therapists and family members for holistic interventions that promote target generalization across clients’ multiple contexts and domains of functioning.Empowered clients' parents/caregivers to assume the role of the therapist to effect maximal progress across clients' real communication contexts by delivering coaching for language stimulation techniques (e.g., parallel talk, recasts, expansions, narrative-based instruction, child-led play therapy, communication temptations) and effective cueing for accurate speech articulation.

Placentia, California, Us

Member of tracheostomy/ventilator care team for potential re-initiation of oral diet, G-tube weaning, patient training, tolerance assessment for speaking valves, and daily collaboration with respiratory therapy for tracheostomy/ventilator weaning assessment.

Placentia, California, Us

Trained oropharyngeal exercises, delivered ongoing assessment of least restrictive diet consistencies in long-term setting, developed/trained compensatory strategies and behavior modifications, and delivered daily caregiver/nursing education and in-services to reduce signs and symptoms of aspiration and dysphagia.Identified and treated cognitive, communication, problem-solving, and safety-awareness barriers to patients’ participation in their care plans and social contexts through techniques such as delayed recall, positive behavioral support, and external aids to promote quality of life and independence in the nursing unit.Collaborated with family members, rehabilitation team, nursing, physicians, social workers, and administration to provide holistic care for patients with cognitive communication disorders, aphasia, and dysphagia.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Conducted subjective and objective assessments to deliver functional therapy for patients with dysphagia, fluent and non-fluent aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, and voice disorders secondary to conditions such as altered mental status, dementia, metabolic encephalopathy, CVA, TBI, respiratory failure, and degenerative neurological disease.Assisted with and/or conducted over 65 Modified Barium Swallow Studies under supervising Speech-Language Pathologist.

Cypress, California, Us

Served students in grades preschool through sixth grade with needs in written and spoken language, alternative and augmentative communication, and motor speech through individual, small group, tele-practice, and classroom instruction formats. Collaborated with school personnel (e.g., psychologists, behaviorists, special education teachers) to deliver holistic intervention within meaningful environments and support the use of therapy targets within daily contexts.

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Supported Drs. Daughrity and Ocampo’s research regarding the efficacy of interprofessional training in counselors’ ability to scaffold campers’ social skills at an Adapted Physical Education camp.Trained counselors to identify opportunities and utilize strategies to support peer-to-peer engagement.Composed a literature review regarding the potential for interprofessional collaboration and pragmatic language therapy to support client participation, engagement, and quality of life.

Delivered interventions in in-home and clinical settings to promote progress toward goals for articulation, phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, narrative comprehension and expression, and social-pragmatic language. Collaborated with parents of clients aged two through twenty-one to identify realistic adaptations of family routines to promote progress toward goals. Created educational materials, daily personalized goals, strategies, and activities for parents to facilitate their child's language development.

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Supported Drs. Hung and Sun’s research analysis regarding the effects of English-delivered Semantic Feature Analysis across both languages of bilingual people with aphasia.

Increased preschool, school-aged, and adolescent client compliance and use of executive functioning, adaptive, and pragmatic language skills in natural home and community routines through Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavioral Support (PBS).Established reinforcements and verbal encouragement strategies used to motivate clients to meet therapy goals. Recorded extensive data to monitor client progress and therapy needs.Employed a prompting hierarchy to ensure client success via the least intrusive prompts.

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Instructed students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds in all domains of writing and reading comprehension via one-to-one instruction and group workshop formats. Scaffolded students' use of strategies to foster independence and confidence in writing and reading processes.

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Created and implemented lesson plans to provide supplemental instruction for university students enrolled in introductory English. Led peer-review and group exercises for students to develop the requisite writing and reading comprehension strategies for academic success.

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

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

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Studies