Jodie graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL with a Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders. She has been a practicing speech language pathologist since 1995 with extensive experience in the private sector, school settings and clinical experience in hospital settings which include long term care and outpatient rehab. Jodie became a VitalStim® Provider in 2005. Since then she has utilized this modality in the treatment of dysphagia with both her pediatric and adult patients. Jodie is also a licensed NOMAS® practitioner and certified in NDC (NMES for Dysphagia), MDTP (McNeil Dysphagia Therapy Program) and Myofascial Release. She has presented locally and nationally on various topics such as Best Practices, The Benefits of Oral Motor/Feeding Therapy on Articulation/Speech Clarity amongst others. Currently, Jodie serves the Speech Language Pathology profession as a therapist at Val Verde Regional Hospital in TX and as a certified instructor of the VitalStim® Therapy and DINES Specialty Certificate Program for CIAO Seminars.
Financial Disclosure: Jodie receives honoraria from CIAO Seminars for the presentation of this course. She also receives royalties for the purchase of her recorded course(s)
Non-Financial Disclosure: Jodie uses VitalStim Therapy in her practice.
Intermediate Level
0.1 ASHA CEUs
CIAO is recognized on the NBCOT Provider Registry (meets PDU requirements for NBCOT)
CIAO Automatically reports to CE Broker for Florida Occupational and Physical Therapists and Assistants. Florida SLPs can either use the ASHA CE Participant Form (Bubble Sheet) or self-submit through CE Broker.
It would have been great if the anatomy photos were displayed on the slide as Jodie gave the descriptions. Sometimes they were briefly.
- Derry, NH / Mar 2024
LOVED THIS! I am an anatomy nerd and loved the video I accidentally watched that was almost three hours long. Afterwards, I watched this second hour-long version, but I loved these handouts and I never tire of reviewing the anatomy and brushing up for MBS and NMES. Many thanks!
- Loma Linda, CA / Sep 2023
Great presentation. Presenter holding a model to illustrate anatomy may have been helpful but I see the benefits of using hands to illustrate as we can do this between professionals or when illustrating content to patients.
- Greensboro, NC / Aug 2023
It was a great course!
- St. Marys, PA / Feb 2023
Pictures rather than use of arm to demonstrate anatomy would have been more beneficial
- Houma, LA / Feb 2023
I am a visual learner so I enjoyed the hand and body parts used to demonstrated anatomy.
- Floresville, TX / Jan 2023