Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Swallow Your Pride Podcast

The Swallow Your Pride Podcast was created with the purpose of diving deeper into the issues that speech-language pathologists face when working with patients with swallowing disorders. We’ll discuss many controversial topics in order to provide the LATEST evidence-based treatment strategies, and create a community of dysphagia clinicians who want to consume incredibly valuable insight and information. Our goal is to allow you to #swallowyourpride, and be open and willing to try the latest in evidence based treatment approaches by learning from experts and researchers in our field in order to create the best outcomes for our patients who need it most. The Swallow Your Pride Podcast is hosted by Theresa Richard, M.A., CCC-SLP, BCS-S, a Board Certified Specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders.

Episodes

May 31, 2023 45 mins

What do your HNC patients *really* want you to know? My guest this week is spilling the tea from her own personal triumph over HNC...

Yvonne McClaren has faced the unthinkable - from a tonsil cancer diagnosis to a partial glossectomy (and tonsillectomy and lymphadenectomy), but has gone on to change the outlook for other HNC patients through her work as a passionate patient advocate.

She's a chef, soup savant, contributing author t...

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What in the health does your pelvic floor have to do with your voice? More than one might think...

SLPs work from the diaphragm to the glottis, and pelvic health PTs work from the diaphragm to the pelvic floor. It would only make sense that we collaborate because, like every other part of the body, it truly is all connected.

Dr. Sara Sohn, pelvic floor PT, and Ashley Michaelis, voice SLP, have partnered together to bring their expe...

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Have you harnessed the truly transformative power of play and patience for peds clients? We’re talking world-shifting, life-changing, tear-jerking, heart-string-tugging growth here!

Erin Forward (SLP) and Karen McWaters (OT) use creative activities, sensory exploration, and play-based, connection-focused interventions to help their clients unbundle their language skills, feel safe in their environment, and express their truest selv...

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If you've never looked forward to a conversation about productivity, and maybe even cringe every time you hear that word, my guest in this episode is about to change your mind! Lysa Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP is the go-to gal for discussions on productivity, and she brings her A-game to this episode.

Lysa is a program development specialist (one of many hats that she wears) and is spilling the tea on what exactly productivity is, how it'...

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Speech-Language Pathologists often express that opportunities available to other therapy disciplines or other medical professionals appear to be closed off to them. Their reasoning is that the perception of what speech-language pathologists do and the nature of our training impedes our ability to advance.

In this week’s podcast, my guest Vince Clark and I will continue to explore this perception. We designed a survey in 2021 that w...

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Have you ever wondered what your patients who can't communicate with you wish you knew? Or maybe you've wondered what happens to your patients after they leave your facility... And what is Guillian-Barre like for the patient? This episode has all the answers (and maybe even some that you didn't know you needed to hear!)

In this episode of SYP, have a conversation with Kristin Dolan, SLPD, CCC-SLP, and her former patient, turned goo...

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Speech-Language Pathologists often express that opportunities available to other therapy disciplines or other medical professionals appear to be closed off to them.  Their reasoning is that the perception of what speech-language pathologists do and the nature of our training impedes our ability to advance.

In this week’s podcast, my guest Vince Clark and I will explore this perception.  We designed a survey back in 2021 that was ac...

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As SLPs, we are often dreaming of the changes we'd like to make in our facilities to help patients have better outcomes and to have our skills and services utilized more fully. Maybe we dream of earlier trach downsizes, fewer PEGs, and more consults on the critical patients who need us most...

My guest this week is back with part two of Curating a Multidisciplinary Tracheostomy Dream Team to show us the way!

In this episode of SYP,...

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Have you dreamt of improving patient outcomes, reducing adverse events for your facility, and establishing yourself as the go-to team member for all things trachs and valves? My guest this week is showing us how she's done exactly that!

In this episode of SYP, I have a conversation with Rachael Silveira, MA, CCC-SLP about her experience with curating the dream team through a tracheostomy team initiative! She shares the details of w...

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Have you ever looked back on your career only to realize you're not where you ever thought you'd be, but exactly where you're supposed to be? My guest this week is sharing how she went from being laser-focused on being a mobile FEES provider to building a multidisciplinary private practice that serves of their community AND their clinicians.

In this episode of SYP, have a conversation with Sarah Rapillard, MS, CCC-SLP, about her jo...

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Gavin Levy is back with part 2 of Swallow Instrumentals Through a Critical Thinking Prism!

As a med SLP, you've likely received an instrumental report or two in your career. But what do you do when it leaves you with more questions than answers? My guest this week is asking me the tough questions on behalf of SNF (and every other setting that receives these reports) SLPs everywhere!

After meeting at ASHA, Gavin brought up the idea ...

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As a med SLP, you've likely received an instrumental report or two in your career. But what do you do when it leaves you with more questions than answers? My guest this week is asking me the tough questions on behalf of SNF (and every other setting that receives these reports) SLPs everywhere!

In this episode of SYP, I have a conversation unlike any other in SYP history with Gavin Levy, MA, CCC-SLP entitled, Swallow Instrumentals T...

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Would you ever consider seeing a child with PFD via teletherapy? If you're most people, you'd probably prefer to see them in person. But what happens when a pandemic shuts the world down and those children still need therapy? My guest this week is sharing how she went from being skeptical and feeling like there's no way teletherapy could work for PFD clients to seeing parents become empowered, confident partners helping their child...

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Have you ever gotten a MBSS report and felt like you needed to do another study just to get the information you need to actually know how to treat the patient? Many SLPs have faced this dilemma that is not only wildly frustrating, but delays care, increases costs, and exposes patients to more radiation... BUT my guest this week created a solution and is sharing the details on how you can do the exact same thing for your community!

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In this episode of SYP, I have a conversation with Bret Stuckenschneider, MS, CCC-SLP, about his transition from an acute SLP to a clinical liaison with a national neuro-rehab company.

The post 268 – SLP Alternatives: The Clinical Liaison – Bret Stuckenschneider MS, CCC-SLP appeared first on Swallow Your Pride Podcast.

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If you got a consult for a pediatric TBI patient, would you expect them to be like any other peds patient? Or maybe like your adult TBI patients? Or... maybe you have no idea what to expect at all! There is little research to guide our practice with this unique population, but my guest this week is changing that!

In this episode of SYP, I have a conversation with Jessica Salley Riccardi, PhD, CCC-SLP, about her research in the pedi...

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How many times have you had a dysphagia patient that is at the end of their life and someone suggests a PEG? Maybe they still want to eat, because food makes their life enjoyable, but they don't want to be a DNR? What's the SLP's role in the decision-making process in palliative dysphagia management? And where do we even begin to tackle these issues? My guest this week is answering ALL of these questions and dropping some major ins...

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Looking to get into the NICU or EI settings? My guest this week is sharing her experience working with these populations and some of the newer challenges they're facing. As the opioid epidemic continues to devastate far too many lives, our youngest patients unfortunately are included in that. Erin Redle Sizemore, PhD, CCC-SLP is sharing how SLPs can help these children in the NICU and EI to set them up for success long term.

She is...

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Are you a medical SLP or a school SLP? What if I told you that you don't have to choose? Sure, many SLPs work in schools and PRN in a medical facility on the weekends or during school breaks... But what about the SLPs who work in the schools and help their PFD kids in the academic setting? My guest this week is sharing how she's paving the way for PFD to be treated in the school setting in her community after seeing a need left unm...

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As SLPs, we often have BIG dreams of how we can improve our field, our facility, and the care our patients receive. All too often, these big dreams are suffocated by red tape and never come to fruition despite SLPs' most valiant efforts. It's certainly an uphill battle, but my guest this week is showing us how to pave our own path to the field of our SLP dreams.

In this episode of SYP, I have a conversation with Katie Moore, MS, CC...

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