Assistant School
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Keren Elissa Averback
Sharon, MA *2067
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EDUCATION
Boston University, Boston, MA, May 2006
Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology
Scholarship Recipient
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2004
Bachelor of Science
Commonwealth College (Honors Program)
Major: Communication Disorders [G.P.A.: 4.0]
Minor: Psychology
Honors Thesis: The Incidence of Motor Speech Impairment Among Individuals with Autism and Asperger’s Disorder
Honors, Scholarships, Grants: Honors Research Grant
William F. Field Alumni Scholar
Dean’s List
Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
STUDENT CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Epoch Senior Living, Chestnut Hill, MA
Spring 2006Provided dyspahgia/swallowing treatment, voice therapy, cognitive training, and speech/language treatment to patients under supervision of a speech-language pathologist.Assessed patients in the areas of swallowing, cognitive-linguistic, and speech and language functioning. Evaluated and treated patients during meals to assess swallowing function and diet.Developed patients’ treatment plans and completed treatment notes. Collaborated with other professionals.
Behavioral Intervention Program, Arlington, MA
Fall 2005Speech-Language intern for four classrooms.Evaluated and provided speech and language therapy to 29 students, ages 5 to 22, with moderate to profound disabilities. Utilized applied behavioral analysis principles, including verbal behavior therapy, during evaluation and treatment sessions.Led individual and group sessions that incorporated a total communication approach with strong emphasis on functional and behavioral gains through discrete trials, natural environment teaching, and intensive teaching sessions.
The Joseph Germono Fluency Clinic, Boston University Speech and Language Center
Fall 2005Conducted individual treatment sessions for a client with a moderate to severe fluency disorder and high functioning autism. Participated in group fluency therapy sessions.
Boston University Speech and Language Center
Summer 2005Conducted kindergarten screenings. Developed protocols and conducted three in depth speech-language evaluations for a preschool client, a school age client, and an adult client followed by diagnostic report writing.
James M. Curley Elementary School, Jamaica Plain, MA
Spring 2005Planned and conducted group and individual speech-language treatment sessions for children in kindergarten through 5th grade. Administered a number of diagnostic tests. Collaborated with other team members.
Boston University Speech and Language Center
Fall 2004Collaborated with another graduate student and carried out speech-language therapy sessions for a group consisting of two preschool aged children with PDD and one child with a language delay.Provided speech-language services to a child with expressive and receptive language and cognitive-linguistic deficits
Boston Area Schools
Fall 2004
Performed hearing screenings, otoscopy, and tympanometry
Center for Speech, Language and Hearing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fall 2003Planned and conducted communication instruction sessions for a group of International Teaching Assistants
RELATED EXPERIENCESAssistantship at the Lab of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston University School of Medicine, taking phonemic inventories for an Autism toddler research study, January 2005-July 2005Presented my undergraduate Thesis entitled The Incidence of Motor Speech Impairment in Autism and Asperger’s Disorders at the ASHA Convention, November 2004Worked as a one-on-one with a girl with cerebral palsy who used a Dynavox for daily communication at The Massachusetts Hospital School, Summers of 2003 and 2004Participated in the Best Buddies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Maintained a relationship, via phone calls and monthly activities, with a woman with intellectual disabilities, Spring 2002-Spring 2004Teacher’s Assistant for Communication Disorders 416: Clinical Procedures, Fall 2003Worked as a special needs camp counselor for children between the ages of five to nine, with Autism, Asperger’s, Down Syndrome, Tourettes, and language impairments, Summer 2002Volunteered at Northampton Pediatrics where I participated in various activities with the residents who have cerebral palsy, Fall 2002Teacher’s Assistant for Physics: Theory of Sound with Applications to Speech and Hearing Science, Spring 2002Volunteered at The Wolf School in Providence, Rhode Island, working with children with language processing/production, sensory regulation and social communication difficulties, December 2001-January 2002Participated in B.U.D.D.I.E.S. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where I tutored 4th, 5th and 6th graders at Wildwood Elementary School, 2000-2001
CONFERENCES ATTENDED American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in Philadelphia, November, 2004 and in Boston, November 2007
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTMember of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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