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Responsibilities :

• Adheres to departmental policies, protocols and procedures along with maintain the objectives, quality assurance programs, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Evaluation of speech and language, swallow assessment, dye test, modified barium swallow assessment, cognitive-linguistic evaluation.
• Evaluating the hearing and speech language test results and medical background information to diagnose and plan for speech, language, fluency, voice and swallowing disorders.
• To asses swallowing dysfunction in neurological and cancer patients by using bedside assessments and modified barium swallow.
• Educating and instructing patients family / appropriate personnel regarding the communication disorder to facilitate recovery.
• Uses equipment like vitalstim to improve dysphagia.
• Interfacing regularly with other members of the rehabilitation team and medical staff on the patients treatment plan, progress and prognosis.
• Developing appropriate home and community programs to maintain and enhance the performance of the patient s environment.
• Diagnosis, intervention and management of children with behavioral and neurological speech disorder.
• Conducting diagnostic evaluations, including client / parent interviews, collection and analysis of spontaneous speech and language samples, standardized testing and oral motor exams.
• To be compassionate while managing unconscious patients and people with disability.
• Participates in educational programs and get involved in Clinical research, to evaluate outcome and present or publish in national / international meetings or journals.
• To be part of the Quality Improvement Initiative and protocols of the organization.

Skills Required: Diagnostics,Quality Improvement