Author
Megan L. Malone, MA, CCC-SLP
Megan L. Malone, M.A. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist working in home health care and private practice. Her specialty areas include developing functional intervention strategies for patients living with cognitive impairments and their families, and training facility staff and caregivers in understanding and working effectively with the dementia population. She previously worked for 9 years as a senior research associate and lead trainer at Myers Research Institute, in Cleveland, Ohio, where she oversaw federally and privately funded grants focused on implementing non-pharmacologic interventions with older adults with dementia. She has spoken numerous times at the annual conventions of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Gerontological Society of America, American Society on Aging, and the Alzheimer’s Association, along with several state speech and hearing conventions. She has published articles in the Journal of Communication Disorders, Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly, The Gerontologist, and Dementia.
