Fellow-SLP

The Speech and Language Pathologist- Clinical Fellow (CF) will be able to provide services to both the Ambulatory
Care Network Clinic patients and BronxCare Health System in-patients over the course of the Clinical Fellowship
Year. The CF will report directly to the Director of Speech-Language Pathology. Consultation services will be
provided upon request to all other departments within BronxCare Health System. Services will be provided to
persons of all ages with communication and/or dysphagia disorders, with increasing independence and
responsibilities over the course of the CFY, per SLP Director’s discretion and with supervision.

-Evaluation and treatment of the following disorders (at the discretion of
the SLP Director):
a. Speech disorders (e.g. articulation, fluency, voice).
b. Cognitive/communication speech and language disorders
1. child language disorders (e.g. neurodevelopmental
disorders; autism; intellectual disabilities; learning
disabilities.
c. Oral-pharyngeal function (e.g. dysphagia/swallowing and related
disorders).

-Assess, selects and develops augmentative and alternative
communication systems and provides training in their use.

-Provide evaluation of dysphagia patients using FEES (Flexible
Endoscopic Eval Swallow) and provides MBS (Modified Barium
Swallow) testing, at the discretion of the SLP Director.

-Assumes responsibility for in-service training and program development
at the discretion of the SLP Director. 

-

-Master’s Degree in SLP, bilingual preferred, adult and pediatric experience preferred.