Speech Language Pathologist Resume Samples

Description :

1. Administer formal and informal assessments to students in the area of speech, fluency and language with norm-referenced assessments, speech, and language sample as well as special equipment.
2. Analyze the results of evaluations and diagnose students with a sound-system disorder, fluency disorder, and language impairment.
3. Develop and implement treatment programs for students with sound-system disorders, fluency disorders, and language impairments.
4. Analyze and interpret evaluation results to make recommendations regarding the need for speech-language services.
5. Develop appropriate treatment goals and activities related to the specific needs of students, and to identify equipment or materials to be used in treatment.
6. Provide consultation to parents, teachers and other appropriate school personnel.
7. Provide speech and language therapy to students with a medical diagnosis of autism, down syndrome and childhood apraxia.
8. Provide language therapy to students who require augmentative and alternative devices.
9. Selected and program augmentative and alternative devices for students to best meet their communication needs.
10. Write individualized education plans (IEP) for students identified with a disability in the areas of speech, fluency, and language.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Executive

Education

MS

Description :

1. Developing and implement treatment plans for children and adolescents with suspected speech, language, fluency, feeding, and/or voice disorders.
2. Administering hearing and speech/language evaluations, tests, and examinations to students to collect information on type and degree of impairments, using written and oral tests and special instruments.
3. Providing training and education to teachers, caregivers, and other professionals on speech-language disorders.
4. Executing daily operations of progress reporting and record maintenance.
5. Recording information on the initial evaluation, treatment, and progress of students.
6. Participating in conferences and training to obtain knowledge of new hearing and speech disorder treatment methods and technologies.
7. Communicating with nonverbal students, using sign language and augmentative and alternative communication (aac)/computer technology.
8. Providing communication instruction to dialect speakers and students with limited English proficiency.
9. Using computer applications to identify and assist with communication disabilities.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Executive

Education

MS

Description :

1. Providing swallowing treatment utilizing vital stim therapy with concurrent exercises to residents suffering from dysphagia resulting from illness, injury, surgery, stroke, and head and neck cancer.
2. Select, administer, and interpret appropriate speech, language, cognition, and swallowing assessment measures.
3. Writing progress notes and documentation reports of diagnostic evaluations.
4. Performing initial screenings to identify speech, language, cognitive and swallowing impairments.
5. Counseling and educating residents and caregivers regarding assessments, treatments, and resident outcomes, and encourage caregivers to participate in treatment programs for a smooth transition to home.
6. Upgrading and downgrading residents' food and liquid consistencies as needed.
7. Educating residents, caregivers, and CNAs in regards to safety precautions and ways to communicate with residents and keeping the resident safe during feedings.
8. Following the timelines and completing the paperwork for determining students' eligibility for the speech/language program and speech as a related service.
9. Developing an appropriate individualized education program for each student, and implementing it according to state regulations.

Experience

2-5 Years

Level

Junior

Education

MS

Description :

1. Work collaboratively with all school professionals in order to provide world-class education, while adhering to state, federal, and local laws and regulations governing the education of students with disabilities.
2. Screening and evaluating students referred with speech/language concerns to determine the area of involvement and degree of severity, while being culturally sensitive to a variety of ethnic backgrounds.
3. Working as part of an interdisciplinary team with students who have multiple disabilities; developing and training the use of an augmentative communication system, and/or facilitating language in the classroom.
4. Completing and submitting Medicaid plans of care for speech therapy and personal care services, Medicaid speech orders for therapy evaluations, daily Medicaid progress notes, and Medicaid discharge summaries.
5. Completed comprehensive evaluations and treatments to residents in an SNF.
6. Provided individual and/or group treatment for adults with speech and language deficits, dysarthria, voice, aphasia, and dysphagia.
7. Create individualized treatment plans to include both long and short term goals.
8. Conduct staff in-services and participate in staff meetings provided clinical fellowship supervision.
9. Create individualized treatment plans to include both long and short term goals.
10. Provide evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of residents with speech/language disorders, cognitive deficits, swallowing disorders, aphasia, and dysarthria.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

MS

Description :

1. Evaluating preschool-aged children in the areas of articulation, language, and fluency.
2. Formulating objectives, goals, and lesson plans for preschool-age children with articulation, phonology, and language impairments, fluency disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental delay, and autism.
3. Conducting therapy through the implementation of lesson plans, thematic units, and augmentative communication methods including picture exchange systems, schedule boards, and song/storyboards.
4. Conducting eligibility and individualized education plan meetings for parents.
5. Conducting early intervention transition meetings with parents and service coordinators.
6. Collaborating with parents regarding home language stimulation activities and treatment options.
7. Preparing, administered and interpreted results of MBSS along with radiologist.
8. Recommending an appropriate and safe diet, and compensatory and/or therapeutic strategies.
9. Interacting and collaborating with a variety of professionals and disciplines to meet patient needs.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Senior

Education

MS

Description :

1. Evaluating patients functional abilities and limitations to determine the appropriate intervention.
2. Developing a plan of care and treatment goals, as ordered by the physician or another referral source.
3. Implementing individualized treatment plans that consider patients physical, social, spiritual, cultural, educational, and age-specific needs.
4. Ensuring that treatment plans are supported by standard practices and/or current literature.
5. Re-evaluating treatment plans, as needed, to ensure maximum patient benefit.
6. Educating patients, family, and other care providers to promote patient participation and attainment of therapeutic program goals.
7. Documenting patient treatment according to professional and regulatory standards.
8. Developing appropriate and measurable intervention goals and objectives that supported/ facilitated effective and efficient communication for patients and their families.
9. Administering analyzed and interpreted standardized and non-standardized instruments for adults and geriatrics with communication disorders.
10. Participating in hospital specialty clinics; including voice, feeding, and drooling clinics, via assessment of individual patients and presentation of pertinent information to physicians and families.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

MS

Description :

1. Completed speech therapy services in a skilled nursing facility, focusing primarily on assessment and treatment of deficits in speech, language, cognition, voice, hearing, and the oropharyngeal mechanism.
2. Developed and implemented interventions targeting various disorders including dysphagia, dysarthria, dementia, aphasia, and traumatic brain injury.
3. Completed neuromuscular electrical stimulation on patients with swallowing disorders.
4. Collaborated with numerous disciplines in order to assess, treat, and adequately manage a patient from admission to discharge as well as to ensure the highest quality of life and to meet goals, patient and therapist developed, established on the plan of care.
5. Worked in accordance with Medicare guidelines and managed appropriate therapy minutes per rugs category for patients.
6. Administered dysphagia screenings, objective assessments, and intervention for adult and geriatric populations.
7. Participated in pediatric outpatient evaluations of varying disorders including motor speech, voice, articulation/phonology, and language, and wrote evaluation reports.
8. Provided cognitive and swallowing therapy to pediatric inpatients in an acute care hospital setting.
9. Oversaw and managed therapy services provided by a speech and language substitute.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Consultant

Education

MS

Description :

1. Responsible for diagnostic and therapeutic treatment related to, cognitive speech and language disorders in the pediatric populations.
2. Strong ability to diagnose and intervene in central auditory processing disorders.
3. Closely work with families to improve language and literacy development and increase vocabulary using research-based instruction and strategies.
4. Part of a multidisciplinary team including speech pathologists, licensed professional counselor, child development specialist, and physical therapist to better coordinate client care.
5. Providing in-home speech and language therapy and conducted comprehensive speech and language evaluations to children ages 0-3 years old.
6. Educating parents and family members on speech/language development, therapy modalities/philosophies completed required documentation in a timely manner.
7. Providing hospital/homebound services to students of varying diagnoses, including traumatic brain injury and cortical blindness.
8. Providing speech and language therapy, including middle school teachable mentally handicapped unit.
9. Developing a high school literacy program and responsible for teaching literacy classes for high school credit.
10. Administering speech and language therapy services to school-aged students with emotional disabilities from elementary level through high school.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Management

Education

MS

Description :

1. Collaborating with other therapists, special education teachers, department directors, and school district representatives to determine appropriate services and goals for students.
2. Including developing an in-processing form to communicate between departments about new students and their required services.
3. Providing weekly therapy services to students with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, downs syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, developmental delay, cognitive disability, articulation, phonological processing, expressive and receptive language disorders.
4. Providing speech therapy services to children from age birth to three in the natural environment of their homes.
5. Working closely with parents and other professionals to encourage speech and language development.
6. Determining and write goals for IEPs and individualized family service plans for first steps clients.
7. Report yearly progress in written annual review reports and attend annual review meetings with the special education committee for each classified student.
8. Designing and providing intervention services for classified students with mild to severe speech/language delays associated with speech/language impairments, learning disabilities, autism, other health impairments, hearing impairments, multiple disabilities, emotional disabilities, and mental retardation.
9. Report diagnostic findings in written speech-language reports, attend initial referral meetings with the special education committee for each student evaluated, and assist in developing individual education plans or 504 plans.
10. Administering screenings and evaluations to design and provide intervention services for non-classified students with mild speech/language impairments associated with academic difficulties.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

MS

Description :

1. Responsible for development and creation of video promoting speech-language pathology and audiology.
2. Spoke at various parent groups associated with head start programs and after school programs about speech and language development, hearing preservation and development of the brain.
3. Answered a variety of questions pertaining to speech and language development or their child's specific disability, researched and provided various resources for parents to access.
4. Scheduled students according to needs and recommended frequencies and maintained daily therapy plans for classified students grade k-5.
5. Responsible for maintaining a daily planner and student daily progress notes as well as developing summer progress reports related to each student's specific goals.
6. Administered screenings and comprehensive diagnostic evaluations requested by the director of special education.
7. Collaborated with parents, teachers, support staff, and administrators to support student needs.
8. Responsible for maintaining a daily planner and student daily progress notes as well as developing summer progress reports related to each student's specific goals.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Management

Education

MS