Kenya Gomez-Tydor, M.A., CCC-SLP is a full-time lecturer and hospital-based internship coordinator in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at California State University, Long Beach. Kenya attended CSULB for her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Communicative Disorders (currently Speech Language Pathology). Prior to joining the CSULB faculty, she was the Speech Pathology Supervisor at a three-hospital system in the San Gabriel Valley, where she continues to work as a per-diem acute care Speech-Language Pathologist.  She holds experience in acute hospital units, transitional care unit (skilled nursing facility), acute rehabilitation unit, hospice, NICU and out-patient clinic settings. Kenya is a fluent Spanish speaker and her professional areas of interest include dysphagia management, acquired neurogenic communication disorders and voice disorders.