Mary Chason Gunn
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Experience
Balfour at Riverfront Park Senior Living Community
Denver, CO
06.2021 - Current
- Performed standardized and non standardized assessments to establish diagnostic profiles for cognitive-communication disorders, dysphagia, aphasia, motor speech disorders, and voice disorders for residents in Independent living, assisted living, and memory care environments.
- Developed and implemented individualized treatment plans focused on functional communication, safe oral intake, and cognitive-linguistic rehabilitation.
- Conducted clinical swallow evaluations, formulated diet recommendations, trained patients in compensatory strategies, monitored for signs/symptoms of aspiration.
- Delivered structured voice therapy including resonant voice training, respiratory-phonatory coordination and vocal hygiene education
- Managed dual-setting caseloads (home health and outpatient), ensuring continuity of care, appropriate visit frequency, and regulatory compliance
- Provided patient, caregiver/family, and staff training in compensatory strategies, environmental modifications, and home exercise programs to promote functional carryover.
- Collaborated with medical team including PT, OT, nursing, and physicians to align interdisciplinary goals, coordinate care transitions, and address functional limitations.
- Completed comprehensive documentation including daily treatment notes, progress summaries, plan of care certification and re-certifications, evaluations, and discharge planning.
Graduate Clinician
University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora, CO
01.2021 - 04.2021
- Independently assessed and treated adults with a variety of swallowing, cognitive, and communication disorders as well as burn injuries impacting oral motor function in the intensive and non-intensive acute care and acute rehab settings with focus on cognition, language, and dysphagia
- Developed and implemented treatment plans for special populations including spinal cord injury, heart and lung transplant, and patients recovering from COVID-19
- Provided results of evaluations, including Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and ICU delirium, to patient, family, and medical team
- Assessed appropriateness for tracheostomy progression and administered therapeutic speaking valve trials for patients with a tracheostomy tube
- Performed and interpreted results of Modified Barium Swallow Studies (MBSS) and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES)
- Organized and conducted evidence-based interventions, including co-treatments, to optimize quality of life
- Collaborated with the interdisciplinary team, patient, and caregivers to create individualized treatment plans
- UCHealth, Level I Trauma
Graduate Clinician
Infirmary Health
Mobile, AL
10.2020 - 12.2020
- Evaluated and treated pediatric and adult patients with feeding, swallowing, voice, cognitive, motor speech, and language impairments in the intensive and non-intensive acute care settings, focusing on adult patients with swallowing and expressive/receptive language deficits
- Independently executed and interpreted MBSS and assisted with administration and interpretation of FEES (~ 2-4/day)
- Volunteered in the inpatient rehab setting on weekends (~16 hours total)
- Identified the need for and made referrals to other therapists/physicians
- Trialed speaking valves and provided education regarding instructions and benefits of speaking valve wear
- Communicated with the patient, family, and interdisciplinary team on a daily basis to optimize patient outcomes
- Level III Trauma
Education
Masters of Science - Speech-Language Pathology
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL05.2021
Bachelor of Arts - Communicative Disorders, Human Development and Family Studies
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL05.2019
Skills
- ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP)
- Colorado Office of Speech Language Pathology: License in Speech Language Pathology
- CPR/BLS Certification
Leadership Experience
- Communicative Disorders Ambassador, The University of Alabama, 09/17 - 05/19
- Member, National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, 08/16 - Present
Research
- Independent Study, University of Alabama Speech and Hearing Center, 08/18 - 05/19
- Clinical In-service, University of Colorado Hospital (UCHealth), 03/21
Timeline
Clinical Experience
Balfour at Riverfront Park Senior Living Community
06.2021 - Current
Graduate Clinician
University of Colorado Hospital
01.2021 - 04.2021
Graduate Clinician
Infirmary Health
10.2020 - 12.2020
Masters of Science - Speech-Language Pathology
University of South Alabama
Bachelor of Arts - Communicative Disorders, Human Development and Family Studies
University of Alabama