Experience

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  Winter Park Towers

  • Winter Park, Florida

  • Speech Language Pathologist

    • Dec 2014 - Present
    • Winter Park, Florida

    I was a full time employee with this company for 7 years before transitioning to a PRN position. I evaluate and assess patients and provide speech therapy treatments for patients in all settings in a short-term, long-term rehab facility as well as supported outpatient services within the community. Educated patients/families and develop discharge plans as well as attending care plan meetings to optimize inter-disciplinary treatments. Worked with support staff as CNAs, nursing team, dietary and social services to provide well-rounded care, exhaust my strong communication abilities to ensure all involved understood treatment outcome and plan of care.• Negotiated and attended patient/family/case management meetings to facilitate discharge, continuation of care and present current recommendation.• Worked on schedule management to exceed productivity standards, and worked in coordination with other disciplines to optimize time management and reduce non billable time• Directed speech therapy department’s student orientation process and coordinated shadowing program for students interested in speech therapy profession. In this role, I took additional leadership continuing education courses to improve my communication and management abilities.• Attended meetings other managers to align goals, coordinate continuity of care and ensure patient satisfaction during rehabilitation process• Adapted to many EMR changes over the course of my career with quick training and ability to implement new skills to efficiently and effectively complete documentation tasks. These EMR changes were in coordination with insurance billing and I completed monthly audits to other buildings to ensure compliance

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  SpeechForLife, LLC

  • Florida, United States

  • Senior Speech Language Pathologist

    • Apr 2021 - Jun 2024
    • Florida, United States

    In this role, I assessed, diagnosed and treated various language delays, dyslexia/dysgraphia and articulation/phonological deficits. I applied structured literacy tasks to improve phonemic awareness, select appropriate and evidenced based targets to improve articulation and provide models of expressive communication to improve the students' overall expressive and receptive language abilities. I have specialized training Lively Letters, LIPs and Seeing Stars to use in conjunction with science of reading to create and implement a systematic approach to phonetics, reading and spelling. I have broadened my scope of practice to implement multiple and new technology into treatment sessions. I have increased independence with scheduling and time management to allow for the hybrid model of learning

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  The First Academy

  • Orlando, Florida

  • Speech and Language Pathologist

    • Aug 2016 - May 2023
    • Orlando, Florida

    I was a contracted speech and language pathologist in this private school setting with students who have special needs. I evaluated and treated students ages 6-20 targeting pragmatics, articulation, language and functional life skills to improve overall communication in academic and home environment. I collaborated with teachers on structured and systematic phonemic awareness instruction to improve writing and reading abilities. I used a 'push in' method to help carryover of skills learned in a structured setting to classroom setting to yield increased results.• Managed patient load from 10-20 hours in coordination with teacher schedules to manage expectations and optimize treatments. • Collaborated with parents, teachers and principal during student review meetings to effectively demonstrate communication of plan of care, goals and treatment.• Worked with on-site OT to provide adaptive equipment to students during instructional time• Organized my time, managed budget and ensured timely completion of documentation

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  Florida Speech

  • Orlando, Florida

  • CF-SLP

    • Apr 2014 - Dec 2014
    • Orlando, Florida

    Under the supervision of Dr Melissa Malani, I built a caseload working with children which included parent referrals, screening and evaluation and accurate report writing for insurance standards. who These children benefited from speech therapy in the areas of articulation, expressive/receptive language, and some forms of AAC to improve overall communication, etc. I provided one-on-one sessions with children ranging in ages from 2-14 years of age.

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  Personal Best Speech

  • orlando, florida area

  • SLP-A

    • Aug 2011 - May 2012
    • orlando, florida area

    I worked as an SLP-A at First Hope under the supervision of Kelly Komisaruk. I worked with children ranging in age from 3-16 with special needs. I provided articulation and language therapy in a one-on-one environment.