Experience

Doctors Hospital of Augusta

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Speech Language Pathologist

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  • Primary responsibilities: Conducting inpatient pediatric and adult evaluations as ordered and recommending/developing appropriate treatment plans. Cognitive evaluations, bedside swallow evaluations, modified barium swallow studies and reporting results, collaborating with staff, family, and caregivers as well as making diet consistency recommendations. Providing appropriate treatment as outlined in plan of care documents. Attendance at in-services and continuing education classes. • Current population: Patients with traumatic brain injury, dysphagia, burn victims, stroke, extubated patients, patients with tracheostomy tube with Passy Muir valve, cognitive impairment, seizures, ages birth to geriatric.



Sensational Kids

• Martinez, Georgia, United States

• Speech Language Pathologist

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  • Primary responsibilities: Scheduling, assessment, treatment, data collection, collaboration with colleagues and parents, file maintenance, attendance at in-services and continuing education classes, weekly staff meetings. • Current population: Patients with cognitive impairment, feeding/swallowing disorders, Autism Spectrum disorder, seizure disorders, apraxia of speech, specific learning disorders, hearing impairment, auditory processing disorders, Cerebral Palsy, articulation/phonological disorders, language disorders, and developmental delays ages birth to eighteen years. • Evaluating and assessing the need for Alternative Augmentative Communication devices and collaborating with parents and company representatives to determine best device and programming fit for the patient. Completing funding packets for AAC devices • Supervising Graduate student interns in clinical setting



AmeriTherapy Services

• Valdosta, Georgia, United States

• Speech Language Pathologist

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2020

  • Primary responsibilities: Assessment, treatment, data collection, collaboration with colleagues and parents, file maintenance, attendance at in-services, staff meetings, and continuing education classes, communicating with Babies Can’t Wait case managers, providing teletherapy when appropriate. • Primary responsibilities: Assessment, treatment, data collection, collaboration with colleagues and parents, file maintenance, attendance at in-services, staff meetings, and continuing education classes, communicating with Babies Can’t Wait case managers, providing teletherapy when appropriate.



Tift Regional Medical Center

• Tifton, Georgia, United States

• Speech Language Pathologist

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2020

  • Primary responsibilities: Scheduling, assessment, treatment, data collection, collaboration with colleagues and parents, file maintenance, attendance at in-services and continuing education classes, weekly staff meetings. • Population: Patients with dysphagia, cognitive impairment, feeding/swallowing disorders, Autism Spectrum disorder, seizure disorders, apraxia of speech, intellectual impairments, specific learning disorders, hearing impairment, auditory processing disorders, Cerebral Palsy, articulation/phonological disorders, language disorders, and developmental delays ages birth to adult. • Evaluating and assessing the need for Alternative Augmentative Communication devices and collaborating with parents and company representatives to determine best device and programming fit for the patient. Completing funding packets for AAC devices • Additional duties: Conducting outpatient pediatric and adult modified barium swallow studies and reporting results, assisting with pediatric and adult inpatient evaluations and treatments as needed. • Supervising Graduate student interns in inpatient and outpatient settings.



Douglas County School District

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Speech Language Pathologist

  • Aug 2007 - Jun 2015

  • Mentor to new therapists. • Caseload of 55 students with varying speech and language diagnoses ages 3-12. • Populations: Autism Spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, seizure disorders, apraxia of speech, intellectual impairments (Mild, Moderate and Severe/Profound), specific learning disorders, hearing impairment and auditory processing disorders, Cerebral Palsy, articulation/phonological disorders, language disorders, and developmental delays. • Primary responsibilities: lesson planning, assessment, and treatment; data collection for regular progress reports; and collaboration with colleagues and parents to develop IEP’s, participation in the safe feeding referral team. • Additional duties: file maintenance, hearing and vision screenings, SST meetings, due process and director’s approval committees, in-services and trainings, staff meetings, collaboration with teachers to implement classroom testing modifications, collaborative planning with teachers on lesson planning and implementation of interventions within the classroom.