Experience

First Step Therapy
• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• M.S. CCC-SLP/TSSLD, Bilingual

  • Nov 2017 - Present


MJHS - Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care

• Graduate Student Clinician, Inpatient Rehabilitation

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

  Conducted speech-language assessments via screenings, standardized, and non-standardized instruments. Generated therapy plans and provided treatment to linguistically and culturally diverse populations with aphasia, dysphagia, apraxia, cognitive linguistic deficits. Administered dysphagia bedside swallow evaluations. Conducted/participated in diet upgrade evaluations and provided recommendations. Created dysphagia treatment plans. Documented patients’ plan of care, therapy progress, updated plan or care, and discharge notes via EMR software (SigmaCare, Casamba). Addressed concerns expressed by the clients and their families (i.e., ADL, occupational background) with emphasis on increasing speech and language skills, swallowing abilities, and overall self-esteem and quality of life. Provided counseling and education to patients and their families. Served as a Russian-English and English-Russian interpreter/consultant. Show less



Diana Rogovin Davidow Speech Language Hearing Clinic

• Graduate Student Clinician

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2016

  Participated in E-Pal program in corroboration with Adler Aphasia Center (Maywood, NJ). Conducted telepractice sessions. Administered speech-language evaluations, using standardized (i.e., Compton, CELF, E/ROWPVT, etc.), non-standardized instruments, utilized dynamic assessment. Administered hearing screenings and complete audiological evaluations. Served as a Russian-English and English-Russian interpreter/consultant. Developed and executed treatment plans for mono-lingual and multilingual clients of various cultural backgrounds and age-ranges (i.e., adults, adolescents, school-age). Addressed speech and language disorders, including cognitive-language, expressive/receptive language, speech sound production, voice, as well as foreign accent reduction. Show less