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Speech-Language Pathologist
Shepherd Center
Rebecca is a Speech-Language Pathologist at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, GA. She has dedicated her 16-year career to working with adolescents and adults with acquired neurological injuries and progressive neurological diseases. Her experience includes providing 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 additionally includes addressing cognitive, linguistic, speech, voice, and swallowing disorders for clients across the continuum of care at hospital and university clinic facilities. Her role in research projects at the Shepherd Center 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 living with TBI with problem solving and emotion regulation.