CURRICULUM VITAE

LINDA M. IFFT JORDAN

 The Annandale Fluency Clinic, Inc.
4920 Niagara Road, Suite 220
College Park, MD 20740
Telephone: (301) 345-5436
e-mail: injordan@afccafet.com



Education and Professional Certification

Degrees:

Professional Certification:

Special Certification:

Licensure:



Employment History

 1991-Present Clinic Director, Annandale Fluency Clinic, College Park, Maryland
Continuing to provide direct diagnostic services to children and adults with fluency, voice, language, and articulation disorders. Employing and supervising full and part-time speech-language pathologists in-house and at contract sites. Training and Supervising Clinical Fellows in Speech-Language Pathology, and graduate student internships. 1987-1991 Clinical Services Supervisor, The Annandale Fluency Clinic, Inc., Annandale Virginia
Senior Staff Speech Pathologist, providing diagnostic and remedial services for children and adults with fluency, voice, language, and articulation disorders.
Supervisor of Off-Site Services – provided liason to physicians, psychologists and staff of The Dominion Hospital. Quality Control of all off-site speech services. CFY supervision and supervision of staff speech-language pathologists performing out-of-clinic contract work.
Developed proficiency in use of CAFET (Computer-Aided /Fluency Establishment Trainer) and CAFET for Kids. Contributor to the CAFET User's Manual.
Assisted in development and testing of the Cafet-for-Kids program, working with the experimental group under the clinic’s NIH development grant.
Developed special expertise in the area of language diagnosis and treatment for learning disabled/emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, and diagnosis and treatment of auditory-based reading disorders.
Provided language/reading diagnostic and treatment contract services to the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services.
Assisted Clinic Director in administration, including marketing of clinical services to other institutions. 1983-1987 Staff Speech-Language Pathologist, The Annandale Fluency Clinic, Inc., Annandale, Virginia
Completed Clinical Fellowship Year in 1984.
Provided diagnostic and remedial services for children and adults with fluency, voice, language, and articulation disorders.
Particular emphasis on administration of fluency and language therapy. Parental counseling and modeling/play therapy used with dysfluent pre-school children. Delayed auditory feedback therapy used with dysfluent children ages 5-9. Individual, computer-aided fluency program used with adults, and group intensive computer-aided fluency program used with teens and pre-teens.
Provided diagnostic and remedial speech/language services to children at several area private schools, and to emotionally disturbed/learning disabled adolescents and children at the Dominion Hospital.

Teaching Experience

 1987-1988 Assistant Professorial Lecturer in Speech and Hearing, The George Washington University, Dept. of Speech Language Pathology, Washington, D.C.
undergraduate Voice and Diction class 1983 Graduate Teaching Assistant, The George Washington University
acted as teaching assistant to undergraduate Voice and Diction class. Provided and delivered lectures, critiqued student performances, and developed and graded examinations

Research Projects

 "Delayed Auditory Feedback in the 5 - 9 age group: A Data Report", 1986. "A Microprocessor - Based Estimation of Speaking Rate", December, 1983.

Presentations/Workshops

 Goebel, M.D. and (Ifft) Jordan, L. Delayed Auditory Feedback Therapy for the 5 to 9 age group Miniseminar, Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia Annual Conference, Williamsburg, April 1986. Ifft, L. Using the Auditory Discrimination in Depth Program, The Center for Families in Transition, Inc., Chevy Chase, MD, December, 1994. Ifft, L. Speech/Language Disorders, Staff In-Service Seminar House of Ruth, Washington, DC, November, 1993 Ifft, L. CAFET with Functional and Organic Voice Disorders, Technical Paper, ASHA Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1991 Ifft, L. Communication Disorders, Metropolitan Consortium of Special Education Schools, Falls Church, VA, November 1991 Ifft, L. The Speech-Language Pathologist's Role in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Auditory-Based Reading Disorders in Children and Adults, SHAV Conference, Richmond, VA, 1990. Ifft, L. Use of the CAFET Program with Functional and Organic Voice Disorders: Single-Subject Case Studies, SHAV Conference, Washington, DC, 1989. Ifft. L. Management of Language and Learning Disabled Patients, Staff In-Service Seminar, Dominion Hospital, 1991

Affiliations

 American Speech/Language/Hearing Association Maryland Speech and Hearing Association

Awards

 Award for Continuing Education (ASHA) October, 1994 Award for Continuing Education (ASHA) January, 1991 Award for Continuing Education (ASHA) January, 1988