Speech - Language Pathologist

MIA NOELLE JENKINS

*** ** *** *****, ******* Beach, Florida 33435

301-***-**** · ***********@*****.***

LICENSURE:

Florida State Provisional Licensure #SZ9547 June 2020-Present

EDUCATION:

Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD May 2020

Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology Cumulative GPA: 3.84/4.00

Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD May 2018

Bachelor of Arts in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Cumulative GPA: 3.52/4.00; Major GPA 3.60/4.00

Completed 25 student observation hours requirement

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:

Rehabilitation Center of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL June 2020-Present Full Time Speech-Language Pathologist, Skilled Nursing Facility

•Assess, diagnosis, and treat adult populations with dysphagia, cognitive-linguistic deficits, aphasia, dysarthria, oral motor disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, speech and swallowing related disorders, and deficits secondary to head and neck cancer.

•Design and provide in-services to further education staff and caregivers on client specific disorders and treatment approaches.

•Make referrals, collaborate with physical, occupational, and respiratory therapists, and confer with physicians when indicated to provide comprehensive patient care.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD January 2019-April 2020 Graduate Student Clinician, Spring Externship

•Provide diagnostic evaluations, treatments, diagnoses, and follow-up care for traumatic brain injury (TBI) of all severities at Walter Reed’s National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE).

•Work with active-duty service members, guardsmen, reservists, retirees, and their beneficiaries with TBI-related speech, communication, memory, and attention problems.

Citizens Care and Rehabilitation Center, Frederick, MD May 2019-August 2019

Graduate Student Clinician, Skilled Nursing Facility: Summer Externship

•Completed assessments, analyzed standardized data, and provided treatment to short-term and long-term rehabilitation patients with speech, language, cognition, and swallowing disorders in the SNF, ALF, and dementia unit.

•Worked with patients with tracheotomies and/or require ventilator dependence with swallow function and communication by providing oral and tracheal suctioning, cuff inflation and deflation.

•Participated in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings with rehab professionals (PT, OT, SLP, RT) to discuss problems, progress, goals, and discharge recommendations for all patients on caseload.

Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD September 2018-May 2019

Graduate Student Clinician, Loyola Clinical Centers: Adult Neurology Rotation

•Provided individual speech-therapy to a client who presents with mild cognitive communication deficits and mild vocal intensity deficits secondary to a right MCA CVA.

•Provided speech-therapy to two clients who present with mild to moderate aphasia and apraxia secondary to CVA.

•Provided individual speech-therapy to a client who presented with severe, non-fluent aphasia, characterized by limited verbal output and receptive deficits.

•Implemented the following treatment approaches: Melodic Intonation Therapy, Promoting Aphasics Communicative Effectiveness, Cognitive Approach to Improving Auditory Comprehension, and Rosenbek’s 8-Step Hierarchy.

Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD September 2018-May 2019

Graduate Student Clinician, Loyola Clinical Centers: Audiology Rotation

•Examined patients who have hearing, balance, or related ear problems.

•Performed routine tympanography, otoacoustic emissions testing, and auditory processing evaluations.

RESEARCH:

Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD October 2017 – May 2018

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Speech-Language-Hearing Science Department

•Analyzed and discovered research focused on the impact that health and other socio-cultural variables may have on bilingual and bi-dialectical children’s language development

•Worked and collaborated with Dr. Lena Caesar to determine appropriate, accurate, and non-biased assessment of children from multicultural backgrounds

•Improved the quality of speech-language pathology service-delivery in several developing countries, including Guyana.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Visiting Angels, Frederick, MD October 2019 - Present

Caregiver II

•Assist clients with bathing, eating, oral hygiene, grooming, getting in and out of bed, standing, and walking.

•Perform ambulation assistance and fall-risk safety monitoring.

•Plan, cook, and serve meals, adhering to dietary restrictions of the client.

•Provide companionship and socialization, including hospital and medical facility visits.

Country Meadows Senior Living, Frederick, MD June 2015 – June 2019

Personal Care Provider

•Assist residents with bathing, eating, oral hygiene, grooming, getting in and out of bed, standing, and walking.

•Recognize and report abnormalities and/or changes in residents’ health status to nurse on duty.

•Monitor and assist residents through individual service plans modulated by the facility.

•Socially interact with residents in a friendly and professional fashion.

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