Brent Myers

Experience

• 

  Washington Park Elementary

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Graduate Clinician

  • Performed therapy treatment sessions for school-aged children with various speech and language delays/disorders. • Implemented treatment techniques in the area of articulation, language, literacy, and pragmatics.• Completed progress reports and prepared therapy plans for individual students.

• 

  New Avenues to Independence, Inc.

  May 2017 - Jul 2017

  Graduate Clinician

  • Evaluated individuals with various severities of disorders including dysarthria, apraxia of speech, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disability using case histories, oral mechanism exams, and standardized assessments.• Completed evaluation reports and administered assessments, such as Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, ASSET (assessing semantic skills through everyday themes), and Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation.

• 

  Brecksville-Broadview Heights School District

  Sept 2017 - Dec 2017

  Graduate Clinician

  • Performed therapy treatment sessions for children, ages 5-11, with various types of delays and disorders in articulation, phonology, apraxia, autism, fluency, and hearing loss.• Evaluated students with speech, language, and hearing disorders/delays using multiple standardized assessments.• Completed evaluation team reports (ETR) and individualized education plans (IEP).• Presented documents for and participated in IEP, ETR, and response to intervention meetings with parents and school professionals.• Provided effective behavioral management and implemented alternative augmentative communication (AAC) treatment for Highland Drive’s intensive care population, such as using redirection, using expectant wait strategies, creating adaptive materials and activities, and providing AAC core words and aided language stimulation. Show less

• 

  Pebble Creek Nursing Center

  Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

  Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Clinician

  • Performed bedside swallow evaluations, cognitive-linguistic evaluations, and documented progress using informal/formal measures, including the SLUMS, MoCA, and MMSE, to determine clients’ level of performance in speech, language, cognition, pragmatics, voice, and swallowing. • Treated patients with various complexities/severities of dysphagia, cognitive-linguistic disorder, aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia of speech, and tracheostomy resulting from dementia, TBI, cancer, intellectual disability, and/or stroke. Provided quality services for swallowing/communicative rehabilitation and cognitive/functional daily living skills. Aided in VitalStim therapy.• Observed fiberoptic endoscope evaluation of swallowing (FEES) exams, provided diet recommendations based on FEES.• Completed intake, progress, discharge documentation electronically, and wrote physician orders.• Collaborated successfully with PT, OT, nursing, and dietary professionals.• Developed patient care plans and provided patient/caregiver education on elements of speech therapy, anatomy, medical diagnoses, and patient safety. Show less

• 

  Shaker Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation

  Jun 2018 - now

  Speech Language Pathologist