Mary Gallagher, MEd, CCC-SLP

• Engaged students with insightful and compelling classroom discussion of topics relevant to coursework to boost student learning and retention.
• Built relationships with students, mentoring on personal, professional and academic goals while providing coaching on effective integration of course material.
• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
• Used variety of learning modalities and support materials to facilitate learning process and accentuate presentations.
• Designed exams, quizzes and assignments to assess student comprehension providing students with timely academic progress information and feedback to further learning opportunities.
• Used engaging and cooperative lectures, discussions and demonstrations to increase learning and classroom success.
• Developed curriculum standards, lesson plans and syllabi.
• Improved student understanding by efficiently managing teaching materials and answering students' discussion inquiries.

Courses taught and delivered in person:

• SLP 472: Introduction to Acquired Communication Disorders
• SLP 813: Neurology of Speech, Language, and Hearing

• Worked alongside speech@Emerson Course Designers to facilitate weekly live class sessions in assigned course sections.
• Provided timely feedback on weekly assignments, assessment activities, and project work to assess student learning as well as foster deeper discussion toward concept and skill mastery.
• Provided multimodality live class participation opportunities to foster active live virtual class participation.
• Designed detailed learning plans for struggling students based on assessment, homework and assignment records.
• Participated in department meetings to provide input to colleagues about student achievement and improvement.

Course Facilitated:

• CD627: Survey of Communication Disorders
• CD626: Language Development
• CD686: Pediatric Language Disorders

Graduate Admissions Team

• Serve as an evaluator of applications for the speech@Emerson graduate Master's Degree program in SLP.
• Team member designing and implementing admissions criterion for program
• Participate in admissions team calibrations for consistency in application evaluation

• Created and delivered organized, effective, and integrative lectures
• Effective and successful course delivery in both in-person and online formats
• Created impactful assignments and exams that were "rigorous, creative and fair"
• Designed motivating activities and integrated technology to diversify instruction
• Utilized various methods, including exams, discussions and assignments to assess student comprehension and monitor student performance
• Built relationships with students, mentoring on personal, professional
  and academic goals while providing coaching on effective study habits to ensure long-term success
• Met with students to resolve conflict in group work
• Faculty advisor for Senior SLP Student Senior Project
• Mentor for Adjunct Professor for CSD 220: Communication Development
• Courses Taught in Face to Face Format:

• AHS 110: Introduction to Health Care

• CSD 100: Introduction to Communication Disorders
• CSD 220: Communication Development
• CSD 401: Neurological Foundations of Communication Disorders
• SLP 307: Language Disorders (Pediatric)
• SLP 403 (1): Diagnostics in Communication Disorders
• SLP 403 (2): Motor Speech Disorders (last month of W2019 semester)

• SLP 405: Clinical Methods
• SLP 407: Pediatric Language and Articulation Disorders

• Courses adapted and taught online:

• CSD 220: Communication Development

• SLP 302: Anatomy & Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanisms

• SLP 405: Clinical Methods

• Provided school based diagnostics and treatment for students with speech and language difficulties in the K-12 population
• Experienced in both traditional and Montessori method schools
• Held and directed IEP meetings with family and school staff, developing comprehensive plans for each student's needs
• Maintained compliance with state regulation and eligibility determination
• Provided parent and teacher education regarding speech and language delays and deficits
• Lead SLP departmental meetings, supervised department compliance with educational, state, ASHA, and licensure regulations
• CFY mentor

• Provided parent and teacher education regarding speech and language delays and deficits
• Designed and implemented home based intervention programs for the 0-3 yr population

• Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Student Supervisor/Mentor
• Established the pediatric speech-language pathology program servicing inpatient and outpatient clients
• Provided comprehensive diagnostics and treatment
• Served a medically complicated population including developmental disabilities, language based disorders, head injury, neurologically based disorders, dysphagia, and clients with craniofacial/genetic disorders, NICU population
• Outpatient diagnostics predominantly consisted of birth-5yr population, with the most common issue being language development
• Worked with multiple multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive treatment planning for all clients
• Co-Authored the chapter: Feeding the Infant with Cleft Lip and Palate in The Yale Guide to Children's Nutrition, 1997
• Covered for adult based speech-language pathologist in treatment of patients following stroke, craniofacial surgery and head injury

• Provided diagnostic and treatment services for stroke rehabilitation patients which included language, cognitive, oral motor
rehabilitation and dysphagia.
• Established an outpatient pediatric clinic providing comprehensive diagnostics and treatment.
• Trained and worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with infants with feeding and drug addiction issues.

• Clinical Fellowship Year
• A private practice which contracted to schools, head start programs and home-health agencies
• Provided diagnostic and treatment services in school systems (K-12), head start programs and home health care
• Provided diagnostic and treatment services for middle school students with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy