Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist

Prava Therapy is seeking a full-time Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to join our team within a premier, luxury resort-style senior living community offering Assisted Living and Memory Care in Frederick, Maryland.

This community emphasizes a holistic wellness philosophy—focusing on an active lifestyle, personalized care, life enrichment, resort-style amenities, and continuous engagement. Residents value independence, connection, health, and maintaining an active, fulfilling life.

You’ll get to know your residents, their routines, and the activities that matter most to them.

As a Speech-Language Pathologist, you'll provide skilled clinical care addressing the complete scope of adult and geriatric speech-language pathology while becoming a trusted clinical partner within this vibrant community.

You’ll:

• Perform comprehensive evaluations and develop individualized, evidence-based plans of care across all adult/geriatric SLP domains.

• Assess and treat disorders in cognitive-communication, language (aphasia), speech production/voice (dysarthria/apraxia/dysphonia), swallowing/dysphagia, pragmatic communication, and functional AAC/environmental memory supports across both Assisted Living and Memory Care settings.

• Target functional medication management, calendar use, financial tasks, and daily routine organization from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.

• Identify subtle changes in cognitive, communicative, or swallowing function to support proactive care and prevent complications like aspiration pneumonia, dehydration, or malnutrition.

• Educate residents, families, caregivers, nursing, and dining staff on custom communication strategies, cognitive support tools, safe swallowing protocols, and dietary modifications.

• Collaborate with physicians, ENT specialists, community leadership, dining services, wellness professionals, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team.

• Monitor progress and modify treatment plans based on clinical presentation and functional outcomes.

• Maintain timely, accurate, and compliant documentation.

• Participate in care coordination, interdisciplinary team conferences, and discharge planning as appropriate.

• Contribute to a culture of clinical excellence, compassion, professionalism, and continuous learning.

You believe great therapy isn't simply about completing a speech worksheet or administering a standardized screening. It's about helping someone do more of what matters to them.

That might mean communicating confidently with family, managing medication and daily routines, actively participating in life enrichment activities and social groups, enjoying meals safely with friends in community dining venues, or adapting seamlessly to cognitive or communication changes.

You believe:

• Every intervention should have a functional, real-world purpose.

• Residents should be appropriately challenged—not underestimated.

• Independence, autonomy, and quality of life are clinical priorities.

• Proactive clinical identification, aspiration prevention, and mealtime support matter.

• Environmental adaptation, AAC integration, mealtime protocols, and caregiver education are essential components of skilled therapy.

• Functional outcomes matter more than simply completing treatment minutes.

• Strong clinical relationships lead to better care.

Working in a resort-style senior community gives you the opportunity to see residents beyond the treatment session.

You’ll see them participating in life enrichment events, meeting friends in…