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 LATES

Recent Episodes

340 – The Power of Qualitative Research in Speech and Language Pathology – Beatrice Manduchi PhD, MSc, BSc (SLP)

Posted September 3, 2024 • 00:45:47

While we often like to talk about research findings that shows us statistical significance in data and solid numbers we can lean on for treatment approaches…

What...

339 – Concussions, TBI, and CTE: The Silent Epidemic—Are We Talking Enough About It? with Dr. Kelli Uitenham

Posted August 26, 2024 • 00:30:38

How confident are you in the world of…

Concussion?

Traumatic brain injury?

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in young athletes...

338 – Aphasia in Sign-Language: The Emerging Specialty of Sign Language Pathology

Posted August 22, 2024 • 00:30:55

We often talk about how aphasia impacts people’s ability to speak or understand language, but what about aphasia’s impact on sign language?

Do...

337 – That’s Not What Dysphagia Means: The Search for a Standardized Definition of One of the Most Important Words in Our Field – Dr. Martin Brodsky and Dr. Debra Suiter

Posted August 15, 2024 • 00:37:30

Okay, this might sound like a trick question, but…What is dysphagia?

This single question might be the most “swallow your pride” kind of...

336 – SLP by day, EMT by night: How Emergency Medical Tech Training Enhanced This SLP’s Practice

Posted August 7, 2024 • 00:38:03

As an SLP, you’re most likely to see a patient when they’re medically stable…but what if you could also be there from the start of their medical...