Michelle Mason Johnck

Provide speech, language, swallow, voice, and cognitive evaluation and treatment to the young adult and adult population.

Complete and interpret swallow evaluations utilizing specialized fiberoptic endoscopic equipment.

Coordinate care with a multidisciplinary team for a variety of patients.

Complete continuing education to be able to provide the most relevant evaluation and treatment methods to our Kaiser members.

Collaborate with fellow speech therapy team members to provide quality care.

Supervise and mentor student speech therapy interns to further cultivate the speech therapy field.

Educate and support families in Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) technology and use.

Provide per diem support for a skilled nursing facility to evaluate and treat patients with a variety of disorders such as dysphagia, expressive/receptive aphasia, dementia, and vocal pathologies.

Provide on-site and off-site clinical guidance to clinical speech therapy fellows.

Collaborate with the clinical fellow on complex cases to problem-solve and determine the best plan of care for the patient.

Provide clinically research-based resources and references as well as disseminate clinical expertise from past experience.

Assess the clinical fellow's performance and analyze areas of strengths and areas of improvement to build clinical knowledge and confidence in the field.

Manage communication breakdowns between clinical fellow and on-site rehab managers as well as problem-solve technical difficulties with various medical recording platforms.

Determine and advocate for appropriate and necessary materials for the clinical fellows at various sites to be able to effectively and efficiently carry out their clinical sessions.

Train efficiency in practice to adhere with productivity standards of the organization such as on-line, point-of-care charting.

Provide on-site and off-site clinical guidance to clinical speech therapy fellows.

Collaborate with the clinical fellow on complex cases to problem-solve and determine the best plan of care for the patient.

Provide clinically research-based resources and references as well as disseminate clinical expertise from past experience.

Assess the clinical fellow's performance and analyze areas of strengths and areas of improvement to build clinical knowledge and confidence in the field.

Manage communication breakdowns between clinical fellow and on-site rehab managers as well as problem-solve technical difficulties with various medical recording platforms.

Determine and advocate for appropriate and necessary materials for the clinical fellows at various sites to be able to effectively and efficiently carry out their clinical sessions.

Train efficiency in practice to adhere with productivity standards of the organization such as on-line, point-of-care charting.

Evaluated and assessed patients with complex communication needs as well as dysphagia on a per diem basis.

Collaborated with the multidisciplinary team to ensure quality of care for the patients.

Adhered to Medicare standards of care for rehabilitation in addition to productivity standards of the organization.

Offered clinical knowledge in all nine areas of speech-language pathology (Dysphagia, Voice, Cognition, AAC, Exp/Rec Language, Articulation, Fluency, Hearing, Social Aspects) treating complex cases with clients and patients across the lifespan, but primarily with the pediatric population. This position was working remotely.

Provided speech therapy in the TOUCH Outpatient Program for ONR, Inc., in which I traveled to multiple retirement communities in the Greater Sacramento Area providing evaluation and treatment to residents with degrees of cognitive-communication impairment, dysarthria, dysphagia, and voice disorders.

Provided both Inpatient and Outpatient speech therapy in assessing and treating those with complex communication needs in all nine areas of speech therapy.

Added flexibility to the work environment by being able to float when needed into the acute setting to assess and treat to maintain productivity standards as well as best practice.

Offered continuity of care from the acute setting into the outpatient setting as one of the clinical therapists serving both inpatient and outpatient patients.

Offered per diem clinical assessment and treatment for patients in the areas of dysphagia, dysarthria, expressive and receptive aphasia.

Offered experience in all nine areas of speech-language pathology (Dysphagia, Voice, Cognition, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), Exp/Rec Language, Articulation, Fluency, Hearing, Social Aspects) for the pediatric population, but in particular medically complex individuals.

Offered support and guidance for the staff and family with regard to both low-tech and high tech AAC devices.

Provided speech therapy to the pediatric population supporting the Special Day class and district preschool in addition to first grade school-based classrooms.

Established a response-to-intervention program as well as a 3:1 delivery model to decrease caseload size through preventative measures as well as provide clinicians additional time for interdisciplinary collaboration, teacher-speech therapist communication, evidence-based research, and IEP goal setting and analysis of progress.

Provided in-house evaluation and treatment for dysarthria, dysphagia, voice, expressive/receptive language, and cognitive therapy.