Katabella Byers
Franklin,PA
Summary
Motivated graduate student providing evidence-based, client-centered care across the lifespan. Skilled building meaningful therapeutic relationships, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and personalizing care to promote engagement and carryover and generalization across settings.
Overview
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Certification
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year of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Student Clinician
Thiel College
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Delivered individual and group Speak Out! sessions targeting intent‑driven communication, vocal intensity, and functional carryover.
- Co-facilitated the "Guess‑to‑Express" aphasia tele‑group, supporting communication and conversational participation in a virtual environment.
- Implemented speech sound therapy in both individual and group formats, and provided expressive and receptive language intervention in young children.
- Additional experience included assisting with feeding and dysphagia‑related needs in a nursing home setting during meal times.
Gradutate Student Clinician
08.2025 - 12.2025
- Provided intervention for adolescent learners in grades 7–12 across fluency, expressive and receptive language, social communication, and speech sound disorders.
- Supported students with emotional and behavioral needs using trauma‑informed communication, and individualized scaffolding.
- Delivered instruction targeting academic language, inferencing, vocabulary development, and conversational competence.
- Implemented evidence‑based strategies to promote functional communication within classroom, social, and vocational contexts.
Graduate Student Clinician
Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV
01.2026 - 04.2026
- Delivered communication and language intervention within two Early Intervention Special Education classrooms that shifted focus across autism, ABA- based instruction, developmental delays, and multiple disabilities including cerebral palsy and cortical vision impairment (CVI).
- Responsibilities included implementing a total communication approach using verbal models, sign, and AAC systems such as BigMac, TalkingBrix, TD Snap: Core First, and core boards.
- Adapted materials and visual supports to meet varied sensory, motor, and behavioral needs, and sequenced tasks to match individualized communication goals.
- Grew in behavior‑support skills, as well as individualized interactions by incorporating students' interests and sensory preferences to support rapport, engagement, and functional communication.
- Close collaboration with paraprofessionals, co‑teaching with the classroom teacher, and coordination with OT, PT, and vision specialists. Additional responsibilities included data collection, progress monitoring, and participation in IEP collaboration with families.
- Home visits with a medically fragile child, engaging directly with the family to support communication needs, environmental adaptations as well.
Graduate Student Clinician
Oil City Healthcare and Rehabilitation
05.2026 - 07.2026
- Provided cognitive-communication intervention in a fast-paced environment for adults with stroke, dementia, traumatic brain injury, and degenerative conditions, targeting attention, memory, problem-solving, safety awareness, and functional communication.
- Dysphagia management, supporting safe feeding, monitoring aspiration risk, implementing compensatory strategies, and collaborating with nursing and dietary staff.
- Language intervention for adults with aphasia and other acquired communication disorders, targeting expressive and receptive language, word retrieval, auditory comprehension, reading, writing, and functional communication.
- Co-treated with PT and OT
Education
Bachelor of Science - Communication Sciences And Disorders
Thiel College
Greenville, PA05-2025
Master of Science - Speech-Language Pathology
Thiel College
Greenville, PA07-2026
Skills
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Adaptability
- Family-centered care
- Individualized treatment planning
Certification
- Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBSImP) Student Training
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Administration Training
- CPR Certification
- Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting Training
Timeline
Graduate Student Clinician
Oil City Healthcare and Rehabilitation
05.2026 - 07.2026
Graduate Student Clinician
Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV
01.2026 - 04.2026
Gradutate Student Clinician
08.2025 - 12.2025
Graduate Student Clinician
Thiel College
05.2025 - 08.2025
Bachelor of Science - Communication Sciences And Disorders
Thiel College
Master of Science - Speech-Language Pathology
Thiel College
Work Experience
- Thiel College Advancement Office — Student Worker 09/2022–05/2025
- Astorino Family Pharmacy — Retail Pharmacy Technician/Cashier 10/2018–08/2023
- Dr. F.A. Padin, MD — Medical Office Assistant 06/2024–08/2024
- Thiel College — Resident Director 05/2025–05/2026
Professional Certifications and Licenses
- PA Provisional Licensure in Speech-Language Pathology, eligible August 2026
- Praxis Speech-Language Pathology (5331): Passed, 2026