Nina Porter
Des Moines,IA
Summary
Reliable Speech Language Pathologist offering excellent communication skills and diagnostic judgment along with a clear understanding of intervention planning, providing individualized therapy, and maintaining detailed documentation. Successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Continually motivated to learn, grow and excel in all areas of speech and language.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Speech-Language Pathologist
Woodward Resource Center
Woodard , IA
01.2022 - Current
- Manage a caseload of 36 adults with mild-profound intellectual disabilities residing amongst three living units.
- Train, educate, and monitor each house's daily staff on safe dining and swallow strategies, oral hygiene safety and all individualized communication and dining plans.
- Assess each individual's receptive, expressive, and social communication skills and provide staff education and training on helping each individual to have their wants and needs met as effectively as possible.
- Assess each individual's oral, pharyngeal, and general dining skills to determine their specific needs as related to dining and oral hygiene.
- Formulate client-specific dining, communication, and oral hygiene plans to help maintain each person's highest level of independence while providing them with the support needed to remain safety.
- Actively collaborate with house managers, house staff, dietitians, other SLPs, OTs, PTs, psychologists, and nurses as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide insight into all discussions from a speech-language standpoint.
- Lead monthly presentations for all new WRC staff to provide them with foundational knowledge of swallowing, dining, oral hygiene, communication, American sign language, and forms adaptive equipment offered at the center.
- Assess the adaptive equipment needs of each individual and provide the equipment as needed including for dining, oral hygiene, and communication.
- Update and maintain records and reports for all individuals on a monthly basis.
Speech Language Pathologist
Borden-Henryville School Corporation
Henryville, IN
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Managed a caseload of 87 students ranging from preschool-12th grade for 20-30 minute individual or small group sessions of varying frequencies.
- Evaluated speech and language abilities by administering a variety diagnostic tests.
- Interpreted diagnostic results and proposed intervention plans incorporating individualized short and long-range goals.
- Monitored, recorde, and write reports detailing interventions and progress in response to therapy.y..ent's unique needs were met during school closures and openings.
- Monitored, recorded, and wrote reports detailing interventions and progress in response to therapy.
- Continually collaborated with parents and teachers to help students achieve their speech-language goals.
- Continually collaborate with parents and teachers to help students achieve their speech-language goals.
- Advocated for and initiated a district plan to implement Tier 2 RTI for students with speech and language difficulties who did not qualify for direct services.
- Performed annual hearing screenings and made necessary referrals for all students in kindergarten, 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th grade.
- Stayed abreast of updates to treatment strategies in speech and language therapy.
Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Fellow
TheraPeds
Ohio City, OH
10.2018 - 12.2019
- Managed a three-setting caseload of 43 children providing individual 30-minute sessions.
- Traveled between two day care centers providing pediatric speech-language therapy to a caseload of 25 children ages 1-12 using both push-in and pull-out methods.
- Provided individual in-home speech-language therapy services to a caseload of 18 children ages 2-13.
- Worked with deficits including cleft-lip/cleft palate, child-onset disfluencies, articulation-phonology, and receptive-expressive language.
- Frequently utilized the PLS-5, CELF:P-2, CELF-5, GFTA-3, and the KLPA-3 in addition to other fluency, oro-facial, and pragmatic assessments to evaluate referred children.
- Compiled and interpreted formal and informal data into concise evaluations, care plans, and progress reports.
- Maintained data on inactive insurances, counts of remaining visits, upcoming progress reports, re-evaluations, and discharges.
- Regularly interacted with other SLPs and OTs to gain insight into difficult cases and to remain up to date on new research.
Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Fellow
HealthPRO Heritage
Garfield Heights, OH
06.2018 - 12.2019
- Administered a variety of individual cognitive-linguistic and dysphagia therapies to both skilled nursing and assisted living residents of The Jennings Center for Older Adults.
- Reviewed patient charts prior to evaluation and routinely throughout course of care.
- Utilized The Saint Louis Mental Status Exam, The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and The Mann Assessment of Swallowing Ability to evaluate, create goals, and monitor progress of resident's cognitive and swallowing abilities.
- Developed and implemented individualized rehabilitative programs for patients.
- Recorded detailed daily notes in Optima of all evaluations and services provided for each resident in their charts.
- Discussed and educated residents, caregivers, and staff in appropriate strategies to promote highest level of resident independence in communication and/or swallowing ability.
Graduate Clinician
Gateway Health Care Center
Euclid, OH
01.2018 - 05.2018
- Planned and implemented one-on-one speech-language and dysphagia therapy to clients at Gateway Skilled Nursing Facility and BraeView Care and Rehabilitation Center.
- Monitored clients during meals to ensure individual safe eating techniques were utilized and effective and that each client was consuming the correct texture of foods and liquids in the safest manner.
- Provided therapy focused on enhancing attention, cognition, auditory comprehension, problem solving, safety, and verbal expression.
- Created individualized treatment plans and co-treated with occupational and physical therapists.
- Attended weekly plan of care meetings to discuss the status of all patients with OTs, PTs, nursing staff, and social workers.
Graduate Clinician
Parma City School District
Parma, OH
08.2017 - 12.2017
- Provided articulation, receptive and expressive language, fluency, and pragmatic therapy to elementary and middle school aged students.
- Employed small group,one-on-one, pull-out and push-in methods of seeing students to provide the most appropriate environment.
- Collaborated with other professionals to determine students' strengths, needs and interests.
- Screened, evaluated, planned and implemented treatments for every student on the caseload and all referred students.
- Administered a variety of speech, language, and fluency screeners, standardized assessments and checklists to determine if a child required speech-language services or to document a child's progress on current goals.
- Recorded, documented and analyzed therapy data to determine areas of growth and areas to continue targeting.
Online English Language Instructor
VIPKid HK Limited
Beijing, China
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Taught English as a second language to elementary aged students in China utilizing web-based tools and online video chats.
- Instructed students in every aspect of learning the English language during regularly scheduled 1:1 virtual sessions.
- Monitored, analyzed and provided comprehensive progress feedback to parents and other teachers after each lesson.
- Motivated students with a reward system and employed various methods to ensure lessons were attention grabbing and enjoyable.
- Followed a strict hierarchy of lessons to promote a streamlined and efficient method of learning.
- Consistently received very high parent satisfaction ratings based on student engagement strategies implemented to facilitate language comprehension and improve expression during lessons.
Graduate Clinician
Cleveland State University Speech and Hearing Clinic
Cleveland, OH
09.2016 - 07.2017
- Provided individual speech and language therapy to clients during 50-minute sessions twice per week.
- Developed and implemented client-tailored lesson plans for each session.
- Administered assessments and gathered baseline data to determine the specific needs of each client.
- Organized, analyzed, and presented data outlining each client's status, goals, and summary of services for parent conferences.
- Collaborated with clinic supervisors to ensure the most effective tools and methods were used during each therapy session.
Education
Master of Arts - Speech-Language Pathology
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH05.2018
Bachelor of Science - Speech-Language Pathology
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH05.2014
Skills
- Verbal and written communication
- Intervention planning
- Administering diagnostic evaluations
- Adaptive to changing environments
- Relatable nature
- Reliable
Timeline
Speech-Language Pathologist
Woodward Resource Center
01.2022 - Current
Speech Language Pathologist
Borden-Henryville School Corporation
01.2020 - 12.2021
Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Fellow
TheraPeds
10.2018 - 12.2019
Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Fellow
HealthPRO Heritage
06.2018 - 12.2019
Graduate Clinician
Gateway Health Care Center
01.2018 - 05.2018
Graduate Clinician
Parma City School District
08.2017 - 12.2017
Online English Language Instructor
VIPKid HK Limited
01.2017 - 12.2018
Graduate Clinician
Cleveland State University Speech and Hearing Clinic
09.2016 - 07.2017
Master of Arts - Speech-Language Pathology
Cleveland State University
Bachelor of Science - Speech-Language Pathology
University of Toledo
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