Paige Goodman

Assess and treat residents with speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders. Develop personalized therapy plans, provide rehabilitation to improve communication and swallowing skills, collaborate with the healthcare team, and educate residents and families. Skilled documentation of progress and ensure safe discharge planning when applicable.

Skilled with head and neck cancer patients, training nursing staff and communicating with medical device companies to ensure the patients receive the proper laryngectomy devices.

• Treated and evaluated patients with aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia, apraxia of speech, dysphonia, aphonia, TBI, and cognitive impairment
• Utilized verbal and interpersonal communication skills to build rapport and develop relationships with patients, their families, and medical staff
• Utilization of AAC devices to promote communication
• Experienced using VitalStim for dysphagia treatment

• Developed, conducted and presented research at the 2023 MidSouth Conference on pre-/post quality of life measures in adults with aphasia who attended intensive group therapy
• Administered various quality of life metrics and collected and analyzed language samples
• Gained knowledge in how to appropriately conduct research sessions in a replicable and identical manner to ensure information is corrected appropriately

• Assisted Ph.D professor, Dr
• Lynda Feenaughty in all aspects of research including data management, data collection, reduction, analysis, and dissemination of results
• Collaborated with the HIPAA graduate assistant and faculty member to safely obtain patient documents for research purposes

• Planned treatment complex communication and feeding problems for patients with head and neck cancer
• Skilled in tracheoesophageal prosthesis changes
• Treated dysphagia using dietary changes and recommended alternate means of nutrition as needed
• Well-versed in radiation counseling
• Experienced with ATOS medical devices