Speech-Language Pathology

The Speech-Language Pathology Department offers two competitive one-year postgraduate clinical fellowships.

Acute Care Clinical Fellowship

As a fellow in this program, you will receive comprehensive training experience, primarily serving inpatients at Nebraska Medicine within multiple intensive care units, progressive care units and specialty floors such as neuroscience, solid organ transplant, heart and vascular, and the Werner Cancer Hospital.

Experience across modalities is provided including evaluation and treatment of:

• Dysphagia.
• Aphasia.
• Motor speech disorders.
• Cognitive-communication deficits.
• Voice disorders/tracheostomy.
• Augmentative and alternative communication.

Clinical Experiences

As a clinical fellow in this program, you will also:

• Manage an inpatient caseload, including clinical bedside dysphagia evaluations and Modified Barium Swallow studies.
• Function as part of the Speech-Language Pathology team.
• Attend scholarly events, such as Speech-Language Pathology department journal club and TheraChat, a monthly discussion about clinical topics pertinent to medical Speech Pathologists and multi-disciplinary professionals.
• Participate in and present in-services to other health care providers.
• Collaborate with members of the health care team including physicians, nurses, physical therapy and occupational therapy, and respiratory therapy among others.

Email Megan Knowlton for more details regarding this position.

Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders Clinical Fellowship

This clinical fellowship program is offered in collaboration with the MMI LEND program and offers a multi-faceted training experience serving children with intellectual and developmental disorders in an outpatient setting.

As a LEND fellow, your training will focus on evaluation and treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorder through collaboration with the integrated Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders. Augmentative and alternative communication evaluation and treatment is also a focus of this experience.

Experience across modalities is provided including evaluation and treatment of:

• Speech and language disorders.
• Autism spectrum disorder.
• Augmentative and alternative communication.

Clinical Experiences

As a clinical fellow in this program, you will also:

• Function as part of the speech-language pathology team.
• Manage an outpatient caseload.
• Collaborate with members of the health care team including families, behavior analysts, psychologist, physical therapists and occupational therapists.
• Engage in LEND opportunities, including completing interdisciplinary observations, attending seminars, participating in a service-learning project and completing a research project with supervision.
• Attend scholarly events, such as MMI's Department of Speech-Language Pathology journal club and TheraChat, a monthly discussion about clinical topics pertinent to medical Speech Pathologists and multi-disciplinary professionals.
• Participate in and present in-services to other health care providers.

Email Garrett Nathan for more details regarding this position.