Olivia Mohnacs

• Evaluation process in collaborative IEP team development with case managers, supervisors and related services as well as interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss student needs/progress
• Consulted with school personnel regarding student IEPs, 504 Plans related to speech, language goals and objectives.
• Treated students aged 14-22 with a variety of learning disabilities, autism (verbal and non-verbal), cerebral palsy, blind and hearing impaired
• Integration and initiation of AAC devices (Touch Chat, Proloquo2Go, LAMPs
• Developed materials used in classrooms and during therapy sessions such visual aids, social stories and graphic organizers

· Sole speech pathologist working for Jackson Therapy Partners Agency in a 180 bed skilled nursing facility

· Provide services from age range of 31-102 with both sub-acute and long term care settings

· Billing for Medicare/Medicaid patients and documentation of evaluation/progress notes/discharge summaries

· In-services to kitchen staff and nursing staff on change in diet texture program to follow IDDSI

· Motor speech, cognitive-communication, speech-language and dysphagia therapy programs

· Collaboration with various disciplines to provide most appropriate care

· Provided bedside evaluation to identify patients at risk for dysphagia/implemented FEES into therapy programs and completed over 60 scopes of FEES throughout entirety of CFY in our in-house ENT clinic held weekly

· Implemented speech therapy to improve intelligibility for dysarthria, apraxia, MS, Parkinson’s via breath support exercises, adduction/abduction exercises, pitch glides/oromotor exercises, MMIT etc.

· Implemented expressive/receptive language therapy and cognitive-linguistic therapy for patients with dementia, aphasia, TBI and cognitive impairments via SRT, memory strategies, auditory comprehension/naming tasks, problem solving/organizational tasks

· Completed Passy Muir trials/capping trials for tracheostomy patients in preparation for de-cannulation process

· Educated patients, families and caregivers on continuation of care and current diagnoses via family feeding competencies, welcoming families to participate in therapy, teaching oral care/TTS and attending family meetings

· Provided services to adult population (age range of 27 years-106 years) in a 350 bed facility in both sub-acute and long term care settings

· Provided both bedside and FEES to assist in identifying swallowing disorders and to guide therapy based on deficits seen during instrumental swallow study assessment

· Utilized Vital Stim therapy program with patients to improve oropharyngeal swallow function

· Provide in-services with nursing staff/certified nursing assistants/family members on general safe swallowing guidelines and/or risk of penetration or aspiration (i.e Free Water Protocol)

· Provided speech-language/cognitive/voice therapy utilizing applications by Constant Therapy, Tactus Therapy, Space Retrieval Therapy etc.

· Collaborated with hospital SLP for further investigation on MBSS reports/patient progress during hospitalization to assist in guiding therapy approach