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Megan C. Vaughan, SLPD, CCC-SLP, CBIS, CTP

Speech-Language Pathologist
Integrative Performance Labs
Midlothian, Virginia, United States

Megan Vaughan has over 10 years of experience with traumatic brain injury using integrated mindfulness, breathwork and manual therapy as part of her approaches to cognitive communication, temporomandibular pain, and sleep disordered breathing interventions. Her work with integrative speech-language pathology care has focused on interventions with Tony Award winning celebrities and Special Forces Operatives. Dr. Vaughan has served on the Executive Boards for American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Complimentary Integrative Medicine Executive Committee, Chair and Founder American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Complementary Integrative Medicine’s Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Complimentary and Whole Health Implementation Initiative, Richmond Veteran’s Affairs Whole Health Task Force, National Veteran’s Affairs Speech Pathology Whole Health Task Force as the Mindfulness Expert, and is faculty for the VA ECHO Whole Health Implementation Initiative. Dr. Vaughan is also part of the Veterans Affairs CALM program, an initiative to train and empower selected practitioners in mindfulness initiatives.
During the completion of her doctorate at Northwestern University, she developed the Mindfulness-Based Communication Enhancement (MBCE) Program for Special Operators with mild TBI. This program has since expanded to other sites in the VA health system. Dr. Vaughan has presented at numerous national conferences on mindfulness in speech-language pathology, multidisciplinary collaborative mindfulness approaches, and has pioneered a specialized mindfulness course for communication and Special Forces. Dr. Vaughan is the co-founder and director of Integrative Performance Labs as an integrative cognitive performance program developer for contract and grant based programs and research. The current initiative is developing a methodology for flexible downregulation with special forces. The pilot has participants from Navy Seals, MARSOC and Green Berets.

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