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Speech-Language Pathologist
Shepherd Center
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Rebecca Gartell is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Research Scientist at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She has focused her career on helping adolescents and adults with acquired neurological injuries and progressive neurological diseases. In her current position as Speech-Language Pathologist at the SHARE Military Initiative, she provides rehabilitation services to military service members and veterans with mild-moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) and any co-occurring psychological health conditions. Her clinical experience also includes addressing cognitive, linguistic, speech, voice, and swallowing disorders in patients across the continuum of care at hospital and university clinic facilities. Her active role in research projects focuses on the development of rehabilitation tools and techniques to improve the lives of people living with brain injury. These current research projects include SUCCESS (Success in College after Concussion with Effective Student Support), a novel peer mentoring program for college students with concussion, and the development of SwapMyMood, a mobile application to assist people with TBI with problem solving and emotion regulation.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
