Megan L. Malone, MA CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist and works in home health care, private practice, and also as a clinical instructor at Kent State University. Her areas of expertise include developing functional intervention strategies for both patients living with cognitive impairments and the patients families, as well as training faculty staff and caregivers in effectively understanding and working with the dementia population. Ms. Malone previously worked for nine 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 nonpharmacologic interventions with older adults with dementia. She has spoken numerous times at the annual conventions for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Gerontological Society of America, American Society on Aging, and the Alzheimers Association, along with several state speech and hearing conventions. Ms. Malone has published articles in the Journal of Communication Disorders, Alzheimers Care Quarterly, The Gerontologist, and Dementia.
