Job Title: Speech Pathologist Department: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Location: Clifton Springs Hospital, 2 Coulter Rd. Clifton Springs, NY Hours Per Week: VarysSchedule: Days

SUMMARY:

As a Speech Pathologist, your empathy, compassion, and exceptional evaluation abilities lead to rehabilitative treatment programs that restore or improve patients’ optimal level of function, independence, and quality of life.

Speech therapy focuses on the improvement of language, communication, swallowing, and fluency. One of the most common symptoms that we treat is dysphagia, which refers to difficulty swallowing. Dysphagia can be caused by a stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, or healing from a physical injury, and can affect your tongue, mouth, throat, or esophagus.

Our speech-language pathologists start with a thorough diagnostic evaluation and then create a customized treatment plan.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Evaluatio...