Professional Experience

Accomplished Speech-Language Pathologist with 10+ years of clinical experience caring for patients, leading teams, and training colleagues across multiple practice settings.

Clinical Experience – Speech-Language Pathologist

2022-2024 Home Health (A Path of Care) Norman, Oklahoma

• Developed Dementia care training program that included extensive booklet, handouts and presentation
• Provided dementia care training to home health staff all over OK
• Facilitated caregiver meetings
• Provided individual consultations to home health staff as well as caregivers

                        Encompass Health Inpatient Rehab – Fort Smith, Arkansas January 2020 – August 2020

• Designed and executed appropriate and individualized treatment plans for a variety of diagnosis’s including dysphagia, aphasia, apraxia, dysarthria, voice disorders, and cognitive-linguistic disorders
• Collaborated with physicians and other therapists during weekly case conference meetings
• Educated patients, family, and caregivers to implement comprehensive care plans
• Administered modified barium swallow studies, provided therapy to address dysphagia and developed recommendations for appropriate diet plans
• Produced thorough electronic documentation records

Encompass Home Health – Norman, Oklahoma, October 2015 – December 2019

• Awarded 2017 Clinician of the Year
• Precepted new employees, completed weekly progress reports, assessed documentation, participated in weekly “WIG” meetings, managed and performed patient satisfaction phone calls, provided weekly education presentations regarding OASIS questions as well as Medicare guidelines for documentation
• Consulted with multi-disciplinary team during weekly case conference meetings
• Delivered formal instructional presentations covering defensible documentation, memory care, dysphagia and how to administer cognitive assessments

RehabSource (SNF) – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 2013 – October 2015

• Led team of therapists, coordinated daily schedules for all disciplines, attended weekly meetings with case managers
• Performed formal and informal evaluation processes, screenings, and treatments of voice, speech, language, cognition and dysphagia
• Obtained Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Certification (E-stim via “The Guardian Way”)
• Conducted and interpreted clinical swallowing evaluations with recommendations and patient/caregiver/ staff education regarding safe diet consistency and compensatory and/or rehabilitative strategies
• Generated and maintained routine documentation including: treatment plans, progress notes, and report summaries
• Consulted and instructed members of the multi-disciplinary team in specific speech therapy modalities and interventions
• Delivered formal instructional presentations covering memory care, dysphagia and how to administer the Mini-Cog assessment

v  Education: University of Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Masters of Arts: Communication Sciences Disorders

v  Licensure: Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist in Oklahoma and Arkansas

v  Certification from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association of clinical competence (ASHA)

v  Council of certified Dementia Practitioners: Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional and Certified Dementia Care Practitioner