Special Education Patient Service

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Extensive work experience of more than ** years in the area of Habilitation

and Rehabilitation as medical and school Speech Language Pathologist with different stage of life i.e. infants, toddlers, preschool, school, high school to old age. Currently hold active Hawaii, California, Colorado State SLP practice license and ASHA SLP CCC with active clinical Supervisor certification. Have supervised many CFY who successfully achieved ASHA CCC certifications. Also have CO Special education board SLP license, LSVT certification, Registered NPI medical care provider identification number and continue to maintain life time membership of Indian Speech and Hearing Board License. Experiences And Skills

Stepping Stones Group LLC. Full Time Feb 2022- Continue Tele-Speech Therapy for Aurora School District K-12 children/students. School Speech Therapist provide therapy service virtually according to the IEP goals, Screening and Evaluation. Informal and Formal Assessment as needed. Attending IEP with treatment plan and goals for student success achieving academic goals, communication skill in school, community and vocational setting as transitional program. Use Frontline, EzMed software application for documentation and progress monitoring. Direct and Indirect therapy targeting Articulation, Fluency, Receptive-Expressive Oral Language, Social communication, Self advocacy and verbal problem solving as safe executive function, Functional language communication, Multimodal approach with AAC device e.g. SGD Nova Chat Device, PEGS, ASL etc. Population includes SLI, SLD, Mild and Mild-Moderate and Severe disability due to OHI, MD e.g. Down’s Syndrome/Cerebral Palsy with Hearing Loss etc condition. Advanced Health care of Colorado Springs PRN June 2015-continue Mostly acute and subacute rehabilitation for Dysphagia, Dysarthria, Voice, Dementia, Aphasia and other neuro-cognitive and linguistic therapy functions. Page 1 of 6

909-634-066

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5425 Jarman Street

Colorado Springs

CO 80906

SABITA SINGH, MASTERS AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Mainly included Screening, Assessment and Treatment. Use Rehab Optima for patient billing and documentation.

Clinical Speech Language Pathologist and Supervisor, Genesis HCC/Rehab; Colorado Springs, CO — Full Time Sept 2015 - May 2021 Speech Language Pathologist at Cheyenne Mountain Care Center. Skilled Acute/Subacute and Long Term Care patients. Acute, Subacute, skilled therapy, skilled maintenance, use of variety of therapy model and approach in least restrictive environment. Bedside assessment, variety of screening, standardized instrumental assessment for Dysphagia in general as well as acute/subacute patient e.g. due to respiratory pneumonia, pt intubated/on tracheostomy, NPO with Alternative G-tube/PEG tube feeding; Speech Dysarthria due to underlying neurological condition e.g. stroke which lead to poor oral motor function resulting into speech articulation, voice and Fluency disorder; TBI, Aphasia, Parkinson’s, Apraxia, Alzheimers or other type of dementia and underlying psychological conditions e.g. Anxiety, Schizophrenia; Patient with increased comorbidity secondary to multiple/complex medical diagnosis e.g. post surgical management of patient with pre-existing medical diagnosis with new onset of infection, AMS with fall and hip surgery etc. Treatment care plan, attend care plan meeting for different types of patient with varied degree of medical, psychosocial and physical functional decline. Patient, family, nursing care and other rehabilitation professional collaboration and education.

Assessment included bedside swallowing assessment, use of Dysphagia severity scale beside physical s/s of aspiration and aspiration-scale, oral motor function measures, functional perceptual voice assessment, Auditory processing, Expressive language and cognitive linguistic functions such as BIMS, CLQT, BCAT, CADL-2, Glasgow Coma Scale, EACS, LAST, RIPA-2, STAD, Page 2 of 6

MCLA, BDAE, MIT, The Aphasia Rapid Test, M-CSM, SCATBI, AAC e.g. Medical picture and word communication Board etc.

Use of software module for therapy e.g. Constant Therapy, iPad based AAC module e.g. Lingraphica, TD snap, attended education on patient Voice preservation for Tobii Dynavox etc. Direct therapy safe executive function therapy which included Oral Motor speech and swallowing muscle coordination exercises, Respiratory and Voice exercises, Neurolinguistic- training and re-education with sensory integration, self advocacy and adaptive cognitive-linguistic skill for ADL’s /IADL’s e.g. recalling new precautions and safety for safe executive function, appropriate use of new assistive devices for physical mobility as well as adaptive equipment for maintenance of independent daily functional skills with gradual increment in endurance and tolerance of tasks as transference of learnt skills in home/community environment with abstract reasoning, divergent and convergent etc type of thought process.

Supervision of 4 SLP-CFY who joined Genesis Rehabilitation. Took initiative and Modeled Leadership skills problem solving and advocacy. Use of Rehab Optima module for patient documentation, exposure using traditional and PDPM model for billing.

Clinical Speech Language Pathologist, WSI; Colorado Springs, CO — Feb 2015 - Aug 2015

SLP Assignment and treatment as PRN between various Acute/Subacute skilled facility within Colorado Springs. Similar responsibility as Genesis Rehabilitation. Clinical Speech Language Pathologist and Supervisor, Cumberland Therapy Services; Los Angeles, CA — Sept 2006 - Jan 2015

Full time School SLP served Pomona Unified school district Los Angeles County and Los Angeles Unified School district. Served Early Intervention PreK - 12 th grade population. Performed extensive standardized assessment, treatment Page 3 of 6

plan and therapy. Documentation of progress report, attending IEP meeting, collaborate client family counseling and teacher education. Early intervention population also included screening as well run RTI programs to give SLP service as preventive measures to avoid reaching the conclusion of labeling speech- language disability since its not fit the criteria for skilled therapy service. Population included all typical of articulation, voice, fluency, and language communication included both regular developmental and special education children. Worked closely with Assistant Principal and special educators to facilitate the goals. Transition and maintenance therapy for successful carry over in the classroom and social recreational setting, use of low tech and high AAC communication system in therapy and classroom setting to facilitate the educational and social goals in school. Facilitated AAC assessment and upgrading the system model etc were some of the additional role. Scheduling and therapy plan and feedback collaboration with SLPA. Supervised Few school based CFY SLP become clinically successful receiving permanent state and ASHA SLP CCC License.

Clinical Speech Language Pathologist and Supervisor, Apex Rehab; Los Angeles, CA — 2007 -2011

Part Time week days and Weekend SLP service in various types of Acute, Subacute and Long Term skilled rehab facilities. Typical of bedside swallowing assessment and Treatment, Blue die test in Tracheotomy patient, ordering Modified barium test, speech language communication assessment and treatment for neurological patient TBI, Aphasia, Dysarthria, Apraxia, Voice therapy for Tracheostomy patient using cuff down speaking valve, any other conditions due to structural loss e.g. oral cancer or neurological conditions e.g. Parkinson’s, vocal cord paralysis.

Clinical CFY Speech Language Pathologist, Free Speech / Interface Rehab Inc; Los Angeles, CA — June 2005 - Aug 2006

Full time SLP service in Special school setting with Early intervention, PreK - 8th grade “Carousel School for Autism”. I learnt tremendously in this setting, Page 4 of 6

working with different types of SLI and mixed Learning disability, Multiple Disorder, Hearing loss with Cochlear Implant, Autism,ADHD and PDD populations, using different method and approach of therapy, billing code. Assessment, goals and therapy plan, attending IEP meetings and counseling family as well as educators. Learnt greatly from ABA and Occupational therapists. Also learnt to use Picture communication board/PEGS, low tech “Go to speech” and hi tech AAC “Dynavox” model. It was great learning setting for SLP as CFY. Success came implementing play therapy considering the neuron- plasticity of the early age, positively integrated the communication model in Early Intervention and Elementary school age children. Clinical Speech Language Pathologist and Audiologist, K.S. Hegde Justice Medical Academy Hospital; Mangalore, Karnataka, India — Jan 2004 - May 2005

Full Time Audiologist and SLP service for range of population from neonatal to old age population. Mostly patient referred by Hospitalist from Neurologist, ENT, Pediatric and Maxillofacial surgeon and Dental departments. In Patient and Out Patient SLP service for continued treatment once d/c hospital setting. Audiometric test, tuning fork screening and Tympanometric test, Hearing Aid fitting and hearing test with fine tuning as needed. Auditory training and speech therapy post hearing aid fitting for pediatric to adult age. Hearing aid and Aural hygiene care counseling. Speech therapy included delayed speech development and delayed language development, Stroke patient with Aphasia, TBI etc neurological patients.

Extremely gratifying to work with SMILE TRAIN organizations closely and participated in intervention in rural population. Clinical presentation/ conference on “Cleft Lip Palate Surgical Management, Speech Language Intervention and Treatment” to the team of maxillofacial surgeons. Gladly took opportunity in supervision and assistance to Maxillofacial surgeon and Dental Students who were interested in completing dissertation/thesis using statistical measure of progress of speech, voice and resonance post surgical Page 5 of 6

management over period of time through the means of perceptual assessment as well as instrumental measurements e.g. Nasometry and nasopharyngoscopy assessment, in addition to swallowing/feeding management to as preventive measures for ear infections .

Clinical Speech Language Pathologist, Aashray Rehabilitation Center; New Mumbai, Maharashtra, India — June2003 - Jan 2004

Full Time SLP rehab for Special disability children based private elementary school and also had out patient service in the same school facility for early intervention.

Education and Certification

ASHA MASLP-CCC 2007 - Current

CO state SLP 20015- current

CO Education certification for SLP - 2014-2016, recently applied for renewal. CA SLP License 2005 -2015

Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disability, Mumbai University, India - June 2001 - May2003 - MSc. in Audiology Speech and Language Pathology. Dissertation Research “A comparative study of performance of normal hearing children and children with hearing impairment on phonological awareness task”.

Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disability, Mumbai University, India - June 1996 - May2000 - BSc. in Audiology Speech and Language Pathology. Presented clinical conference on “Autism genetic prevalence and clinical speech language pathologist early intervention method and management”.

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